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SUMMARY:EAST OF THE RIVER
DESCRIPTION:“East of the River offers an incredible range and depth in their music … \neclectic\, emotional\, educational\, exquisite\, and most importantly\, enjoyable!”  \n– Gary Viebranz\, Penn State Erie’s ‘Logan Series’ presenter \n​ \nAbout East of the River \nEast of the River was founded by internationally renowned recorder players Nina Stern and Daphna Mor. They are known for exploring haunting and virtuosic melodies from the traditional repertoires of the Balkans\, Armenia and the Middle East\, as well as gems of the Medieval European classical repertory. The music is arranged and interpreted by musicians whose musical backgrounds include Classical\, World music and Jazz. Together they create the unique blend that is East of the River. The members of the ensemble have separately recorded and performed with such artists as Yo Yo Ma\, Philip Glass\, Jordi Savall\, Sting\, Natalie Merchant\, Aerosmith\, Simon Shaheen\, Glen Velez and many others. \n​ \nNina Stern \nNina Stern has carved a unique and astonishingly diverse career for herself as a world-class recorder player and classical clarinetist. A native New Yorker\, Ms. Stern studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel\, Switzerland\, where she received a Soloist’s Degree. From Basel\, she moved to Milan\, Italy where she was offered a teaching position at the Civica Scuola di Musica. \n​ \nMs. Stern performs widely on recorders\, chalumeaux\, and historical clarinets. She has appeared as a soloist or principal player with orchestras such as The New York Philharmonic\, New York City Opera\, The Metropolitan Opera\, American Classical Orchestra\, Orchestra of St. Luke’s\, Philharmonia Baroque\, Trinity Baroque Orchestra\, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra\, La Scala Theatre Orchestra\, Clarion Orchestra\, I Solisti Veneti\, Hesperion XX\, Opera Lafayette\, Handel and Haydn Society\, and Tafelmusik. \n​ \nHer numerous festival and concert series appearances have included performances under leading conductors such as Loren Maazel\, Kurt Masur\, Christopher Hogwood\, Trevor Pinnock\, Claudio Scimone\, Kent Tritle\, Jane Glover\, Bruno Weil\, Ton Koopman\, Andrew Parrot \, Harry Christophers and Jordi Savall. She has recorded for Erato\, Harmonia Mundi\, Sony Classics\, Newport Classics\, Wildboar\, Telarc\, MSR\, Good Child Music\, Smithsonian and AVIE labels. \n​ \nNina Stern’s latest projects include performances and recordings of traditional music of Eastern Europe\, Armenia\, and The Middle East as a soloist and with her ensembles Rose of the Compass and East of the River (Daphna Mor\, co-Director). In recent years\, Rose of the Compass has collaborated annually with the conductor Kent Tritle and the Choir of St. John the Divine in creating programs for the “Great Music in a Great Space” concert series at the Cathedral. East of the River’s latest album Ija Mia was released on the AVIE label in March of 2024. \n​ \nMs. Stern was appointed to the faculty of Juilliard’s Historical Performance program in 2012 and has served on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music where she directed the Historical Performance Program from 1989 to 1996\, the Civica Scuola di Musica (Milan\, Italy)\, Oberlin Conservatory\, and the Five Colleges in Massachusetts. \n​ \nNina Stern is also hailed as an innovator in teaching school-age children to be fine young musicians. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of S’Cool Sounds\, a successful hands-on music education project. The Washington Post applauded this program as a model in its “innovation in the classroom” series (11/9/03). For this important work Ms. Stern was awarded an Endicott Fellowship in 2003 and was honored by Early Music America in 2005 with the “Early Music Brings History Alive” Award and again in 2019 with the Laurette Goldberg Award for Achievement in Early Music Outreach.  \n​ \nNina Stern served as Director of Education for the New York Collegium from 2002-2007. She has consulted for Midori & Friends and for Carnegie Hall’s Weill Institute\, helping them to develop and expand their recorder curriculum. She is the author of two books for beginning recorder players and percussion\, “Recorders Without Borders.” Ms. Stern has shared her teaching methods with students and teachers throughout the U.S.\, in the Netherlands and Belgium\, and has worked to establish recorder programs in several schools in the informal settlement of Kibera in Nairobi\, Kenya\, at Village Health Works in Kigutu\, Burundi and at a school for Syrian refugee children in Azraq\, Jordan. \n​ \nIn 2023\, Nina received the American Recorder Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award.  \n​ \n​Daphna Mor \nDaphna Mor (recorders\, voice\, ney) has performed throughout Europe and the United States as both a soloist and ensemble player. Mor’s “astonishing virtuosity” (Chicago Tribune) has been heard in solo recitals in the United States\, Croatia\, Germany and Switzerland. \n​ \nShe has performed as a soloist with the New York Collegium\, the New York Early Music Ensemble and Little Orchestra Society\, and as a member of the orchestra with the New York Philharmonic\, New York City Opera and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Mor was awarded First Prize in the Settimane Musicali di Lugano Solo Competition and the Boston Conservatory Concerto Competition and has appeared in a duo with Joyce DiDonato on the singer’s promotional tour for the album In War and Peace. \n​ \nDevoted to new music\, Mor has recorded on John Zorn’s Tzadik label\, and has performed the world premiere of David Bruce’s Tears\, Puffes\, Jumps and Galliard with the Metropolis Ensemble. Also active in the world music community\, Mor has performed in festivals and on stages worldwide\, including New York’s Summer Stage and Munich’s Gasteig. \n​ \nShe can also be heard on Sting’s album If On A Winter’s Night for Deutsche Grammophon. Mor serves as the Music Director of Beineinu\, a New York initiative dedicated to the modern cultivation of Jewish culture\, and is a researcher\, performer and teacher of liturgical music of the Jewish diaspora. She leads programs for the Education Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  \n  \nAll info & pics from website: 2024 – 2025 Concert Season | Coastal Concerts Lewes\, Delaware
URL:https://delawareretiree.com/event/east-of-the-river/
LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Coastal Concerts presents Boyd meets girls
DESCRIPTION:Boyd Meets Girl pairs Australian classical guitarist Rupert Boyd with American cellist Laura Metcalf.  \n​ \nThe duo has toured the world sharing their eclectic mix of music from Debussy and Bach to Radiohead and Beyoncé\, and their two studio albums have received over 4 million streams on Spotify.  \n​ \nBoth acclaimed soloists in their own right\, Boyd has been described as “truly evocative” by The Washington Post\, and as “a player who deserves to be heard” by Classical Guitar Magazine\, while Metcalf\, who has also toured as a member of the popular chamber ensembles Eighth Blackbird\, Break of Reality and Sybarite5\, has been called “brilliant” by Gramophone. Boyd Meets Girl has toured throughout the USA\, India\, Nepal\, New Zealand and Australia\, including engagements at Caramoor\, Newport Classical\, Festival Napa Valley\, Austin Classical Guitar\, Moab Music Festival and many others.  \n​ \nThe duo’s debut album\, released on the Grammy award-winning label Sono Luminus\, reached #3 on the Billboard charts\, and received the following praise in Gramophone: “They play like one\, with a harmony of purpose as sure as their intonation.” Their follow-up album\, Songs of Love and Despair\, was also praised in Gramophone as “Beguiling … fascinating … enchanting ….”  \n​ \nIn 2024\, Boyd Meets Girl gave the world premiere performances of ANAHATA\, a cello and guitar double concerto composed by the Grammy-nominated Clarice Assad and commissioned for the duo by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra.  \nAll pics and info from the website: 2024 – 2025 Concert Season | Coastal Concerts Lewes\, Delaware
URL:https://delawareretiree.com/event/coastal-concerts-presents-boyd-meets-girls/
LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:BOYD MEETS GIRL
DESCRIPTION:”… a self-labelled ‘happily married couple’\, they play like one\, with  \na harmony of purpose as sure as their intonation.”  \n           – Gramophone \n\nRUPERT BOYD\, GUITAR & LAURA METCALF\, CELLO    \nBoyd Meets Girl pairs Australian classical guitarist Rupert Boyd with American cellist Laura Metcalf.  \n​ \nThe duo has toured the world sharing their eclectic mix of music from Debussy and Bach to Radiohead and Beyoncé\, and their two studio albums have received over 4 million streams on Spotify.  \n​ \nBoth acclaimed soloists in their own right\, Boyd has been described as “truly evocative” by The Washington Post\, and as “a player who deserves to be heard” by Classical Guitar Magazine\, while Metcalf\, who has also toured as a member of the popular chamber ensembles Eighth Blackbird\, Break of Reality and Sybarite5\, has been called “brilliant” by Gramophone. Boyd Meets Girl has toured throughout the USA\, India\, Nepal\, New Zealand and Australia\, including engagements at Caramoor\, Newport Classical\, Festival Napa Valley\, Austin Classical Guitar\, Moab Music Festival and many others.  \n​ \nThe duo’s debut album\, released on the Grammy award-winning label Sono Luminus\, reached #3 on the Billboard charts\, and received the following praise in Gramophone: “They play like one\, with a harmony of purpose as sure as their intonation.” Their follow-up album\, Songs of Love and Despair\, was also praised in Gramophone as “Beguiling … fascinating … enchanting ….”  \n​ \nIn 2024\, Boyd Meets Girl gave the world premiere performances of ANAHATA\, a cello and guitar double concerto composed by the Grammy-nominated Clarice Assad and commissioned for the duo by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. \n  \nAll pics and info from website: 2024 – 2025 Concert Season | Coastal Concerts Lewes\, Delaware
URL:https://delawareretiree.com/event/boyd-meets-girl/
LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Cuarteto Latinoamericano
DESCRIPTION:“… one of the world’s most renowned string quartets and the  \nleading proponent of Latin American music for the genre….” \nCuarteto Latinoamericano is one of the world’s most renowned string quartets and\, for forty years\, the leading proponent of Latin American music for the genre. Founded in Mexico in 1982\, the Cuarteto has toured extensively around the world\, and premiered over a hundred works written for them. Winners of two Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Album\, they also have been awarded with the prestigious Diapason d’Or\, have been recognized with the Mexican Music Critics Association Award\, and have received three “Most Adventurous Programming” Awards from Chamber Music America/ASCAP. \n​ \nCuarteto Latinoamericano’s members are three Bitrán brothers: violinists Saul and Aron and cellist Alvaro\, with violist Javier Montiel. They have recorded more than 100 CDs\, including nearly the entire Latin American repertoire for string quartet. \nFormed in Mexico in 1982\, Cuarteto Latinoamericano was\, from 1987 until 2008\, quartet-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Under the auspices of the Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles of Venezuela\, the Cuarteto created the Latin American Academy for String Quartets\, based in Caracas\, which was active between 2008 and 2014. The Academy served as a training ground for five select young string quartets from the Sistema\, groups which went on to lead active international careers.  \n​ \nIn their own words … \nIndividually\, we are Saul\, Aron and Alvaro Bitran\, and Javier Montiel. Together\, we are known as the Cuarteto Latinoamericano. Our audiences have lots of questions about us. For example\, whether that big case that we carry with us is a guitarrón. \n​ \nNo\, it’s a cello. And we are not a mariachi band; we don’t play with ponchos or guitars\, despite what many people ask. We know that our name may be a bit misleading\, but there are reasons for it: not only do we hail from Latin America\, but mainly\, we have made an almost forty-year-long career by mostly playing concert music by composers from countries South of the Rio Bravo. This music “the music of our continent” is as varied as its culture\, its geography\, its food and history. Some of these composers undoubtedly draw from Latin America’s rich popular music tradition\, while others write music that sounds universal\, and could have been written anywhere in the world. Having said that\, it does seem that a lot of the Latin American repertoire prominently features rhythm (or so we are told). But\, in any case\, our only criterion for selecting our Latin American repertoire is its artistic quality. \n​ \nOf course\, like any budding string quartet\, in the distant year of 1982 in Mexico City\, we started with Mozart\, Beethoven\, Brahms\, Borodin\, Ravel\, etc. But soon thereafter we began to discover the wonderful repertoire awaiting us in our own neck of the woods and\, in parallel\, we found out that it was very much appreciated in different parts of the world. This is how this music\, which we have recorded on over 80 CDs\, has gotten us many awards\, such as two Latin Grammys\, multiple Grammy nominations\, and the coveted Diapason d’Or in France\, among others and has brought us to renowned halls such as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan\, Carnegie Hall\, the Concertgebouw and other marvelous concert venues in Israel\, China\, Japan\, New Zealand\, and practically all of Europe and the Americas. \n​ \nThis is how\, until this very day we continue to travel the world with our beloved scores by Villa-Lobos\, Revueltas\, Ginastera\, Piazzolla and many other great Latin American masters in our briefcases. Sometimes we wonder ourselves how it is even possible to have lasted for so many years together. We think we owe this to several factors\, not least among them good luck. A musician’s career is fragile by nature\, as it is totally dependent on the performer’s good health. When multiplied by four\, this situation turns even more delicate. Thus\, fate has been generous with us\, not to mention other very relevant issues: the love for what we do\, having incredibly supportive families\, the affection amongst us four and\, last but not least\, the sense of humor with which we approach our career and especially our travels\, which delight us with plenty of hilarious and absurd situations. \n​ \nEqually important for our long career has been the support we have received from many institutions which we cannot thank enough. In particular\, we are indebted to Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and Art (FONCA)\, which has supported us uninterruptedly since 2004 through its Mexico en Escena grant. We are also thrilled with our teaching activities at the multiple music schools\, universities and conservatories with which we collaborate regularly\, as well as the numerous international festivals in which we participate year after year. And\, undoubtedly\, we have been inspired by our collaborations with brilliant artists\, such as Janos Starker\, Eduardo Mata\, Rudolf Buchbinder\, Manuel Barrueco\, Itamar Golan and many others. \nAs our fortieth Anniversary approaches\, we keep traveling around the world. Our hair has become grayer and scarcer\, and our instruments seem to weigh a bit more each day. But our desire to keep performing the marvelous Latin American and mainstream string quartet repertoire\, and of course the mutual rapport among ourselves\, keep us together\, full of energy and forever thinking about our next concert. All this seems like a miracle to us\, and we feel incredibly lucky and grateful to have made an entire life out of our Cuarteto Latinoamericano. \n  \nAll info and pics from the website: 2024 – 2025 Concert Season | Coastal Concerts Lewes\, Delaware
URL:https://delawareretiree.com/event/cuarteto-latinoamericano/
LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Coastal Concerts presents Cuarteto Latinoamericano
DESCRIPTION:“… one of the world’s most renowned string quartets and the  \nleading proponent of Latin American music for the genre….” \n\nCuarteto Latinoamericano is one of the world’s most renowned string quartets and\, for forty years\, the leading proponent of Latin American music for the genre. Founded in Mexico in 1982\, the Cuarteto has toured extensively around the world\, and premiered over a hundred works written for them. Winners of two Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Album\, they also have been awarded with the prestigious Diapason d’Or\, have been recognized with the Mexican Music Critics Association Award\, and have received three “Most Adventurous Programming” Awards from Chamber Music America/ASCAP. \n​ \nCuarteto Latinoamericano’s members are three Bitrán brothers: violinists Saul and Aron and cellist Alvaro\, with violist Javier Montiel. They have recorded more than 100 CDs\, including nearly the entire Latin American repertoire for string quartet. \nFormed in Mexico in 1982\, Cuarteto Latinoamericano was\, from 1987 until 2008\, quartet-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Under the auspices of the Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles of Venezuela\, the Cuarteto created the Latin American Academy for String Quartets\, based in Caracas\, which was active between 2008 and 2014. The Academy served as a training ground for five select young string quartets from the Sistema\, groups which went on to lead active international careers.  \n​ \nIn their own words … \nIndividually\, we are Saul\, Aron and Alvaro Bitran\, and Javier Montiel. Together\, we are known as the Cuarteto Latinoamericano. Our audiences have lots of questions about us. For example\, whether that big case that we carry with us is a guitarrón. \n​ \nNo\, it’s a cello. And we are not a mariachi band; we don’t play with ponchos or guitars\, despite what many people ask. We know that our name may be a bit misleading\, but there are reasons for it: not only do we hail from Latin America\, but mainly\, we have made an almost forty-year-long career by mostly playing concert music by composers from countries South of the Rio Bravo. This music “the music of our continent” is as varied as its culture\, its geography\, its food and history. Some of these composers undoubtedly draw from Latin America’s rich popular music tradition\, while others write music that sounds universal\, and could have been written anywhere in the world. Having said that\, it does seem that a lot of the Latin American repertoire prominently features rhythm (or so we are told). But\, in any case\, our only criterion for selecting our Latin American repertoire is its artistic quality. \n​ \nOf course\, like any budding string quartet\, in the distant year of 1982 in Mexico City\, we started with Mozart\, Beethoven\, Brahms\, Borodin\, Ravel\, etc. But soon thereafter we began to discover the wonderful repertoire awaiting us in our own neck of the woods and\, in parallel\, we found out that it was very much appreciated in different parts of the world. This is how this music\, which we have recorded on over 80 CDs\, has gotten us many awards\, such as two Latin Grammys\, multiple Grammy nominations\, and the coveted Diapason d’Or in France\, among others and has brought us to renowned halls such as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan\, Carnegie Hall\, the Concertgebouw and other marvelous concert venues in Israel\, China\, Japan\, New Zealand\, and practically all of Europe and the Americas. \n​ \nThis is how\, until this very day we continue to travel the world with our beloved scores by Villa-Lobos\, Revueltas\, Ginastera\, Piazzolla and many other great Latin American masters in our briefcases. Sometimes we wonder ourselves how it is even possible to have lasted for so many years together. We think we owe this to several factors\, not least among them good luck. A musician’s career is fragile by nature\, as it is totally dependent on the performer’s good health. When multiplied by four\, this situation turns even more delicate. Thus\, fate has been generous with us\, not to mention other very relevant issues: the love for what we do\, having incredibly supportive families\, the affection amongst us four and\, last but not least\, the sense of humor with which we approach our career and especially our travels\, which delight us with plenty of hilarious and absurd situations. \n​ \nEqually important for our long career has been the support we have received from many institutions which we cannot thank enough. In particular\, we are indebted to Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and Art (FONCA)\, which has supported us uninterruptedly since 2004 through its Mexico en Escena grant. We are also thrilled with our teaching activities at the multiple music schools\, universities and conservatories with which we collaborate regularly\, as well as the numerous international festivals in which we participate year after year. And\, undoubtedly\, we have been inspired by our collaborations with brilliant artists\, such as Janos Starker\, Eduardo Mata\, Rudolf Buchbinder\, Manuel Barrueco\, Itamar Golan and many others. \n\nAs our fortieth anniversary approaches\, we keep traveling around the world. Our hair has become grayer and scarcer\, and our instruments seem to weigh a bit more each day. But our desire to keep performing the marvelous Latin American and mainstream string quartet repertoire\, and of course the mutual rapport among ourselves\, keep us together\, full of energy and forever thinking about our next concert. All this seems like a miracle to us\, and we feel incredibly lucky and grateful to have made an entire life out of our Cuarteto Latinoamericano. \n  \nAll pics & infor from the website : 2024 – 2025 Concert Season | Coastal Concerts Lewes\, Delaware
URL:https://delawareretiree.com/event/coastal-concerts-presents-cuarteto-latinoamericano/
LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Coastal Concerts presents Wild Card Concert
DESCRIPTION:Wild Card Concert\, Elena Urioste & Tom Poster \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nBuy Concert Tickets\nProgram Notes\n\n\n\n\n\nElena Urioste is a musician\, yogi\, writer\, and entrepreneur. As a violinist\, Elena has given acclaimed performances as soloist with major orchestras throughout the world\, including the Philadelphia\, Cleveland\, and Minnesota Orchestras; the New York\, Los Angeles\, and Buffalo Philharmonics; the Boston Pops; the Chicago\, Boston\, Dallas\, San Francisco\, San Diego\, National\, Atlanta\, Baltimore\, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras; the London Philharmonic\, Hallé\, Philharmonia\, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic\, Malaysia Philharmonic\, and Chineke! Orchestras; and the BBC Symphony\, Philharmonic\, Scottish Symphony Orchestra\, and National Orchestra of Wales\, among others. She has performed regularly as a featured soloist in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium and has given recitals at Wigmore Hall\, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall\, Kennedy Center\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, Sage Gateshead\, Bayerischer Rundfunk Munich\, and Mondavi Center. Elena is a former BBC New Generation Artist (2012-14) and has been featured on the covers of Strings\, Symphony\, and BBC Music magazines. \nAn avid chamber musician\, Elena is the founder and Artistic Director of Chamber Music by the Sea\, an annual festival on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. She has been a featured artist at the Marlboro\, Ravinia\, La Jolla\, IMS Prussia Cove\, Cheltenham\, Bridgehampton\, Moab\, and Sarasota Music Festivals\, and appears regularly in recital with pianist Tom Poster. Elena is co-director of Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective\, appointed Associate Ensemble of Wigmore Hall in 2020. \nElena is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. Notable teachers and mentors include Joseph Silverstein\, David Cerone\, Ida Kavafian\, Pamela Frank\, Claude Frank\, and Ferenc Rados. The outstanding instruments being used by Elena are an Alessandro Gagliano violin\, Naples (c.1706)\, and a Nicolas Kittel bow\, both on generous extended loan from the private collection of Dr. Charles E. King through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. \nElena has being practicing yoga for over a decade and received her RYT-200 hour certification from the Kripalu Center in June 2019. She is the co-founder of Intermission\, a program that combines music\, movement\, and mindfulness\, aiming to make music-making a healthier\, more holistic practice for students and professionals alike through yoga and meditation. \n​ \nTom Poster \nTom Poster is a musician whose skills and passions extend well beyond the conventional role of the concert pianist. He has been described as “a marvel\, [who] can play anything in any style” (The Herald)\, “mercurially brilliant” (The Strad)\, and as having “a beautiful tone that you can sink into like a pile of cushions” (BBC Music). \nDuring the 2020 lockdown\, his #UriPosteJukebox series with Elena Urioste – featuring Tom as pianist\, arranger\, multi-instrumentalist\, writer\, backing dancer and snowman – brought a staggeringly diverse selection of music to audiences across the world through 88 daily online performances\, for which the duo won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Inspiration Award. Their subsequent recording\, The Jukebox Album\, received glowing reviews and a BBC Music Magazine Award. \nTom is co-founder and artistic director of Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective\, appointed Associate Ensemble at Wigmore Hall in 2020. With a flexible line-up featuring many of today’s most inspirational musicians\, and an ardent commitment to diversity through its creative programming\, Kaleidoscope broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3 and has recently enjoyed residencies at the Aldeburgh\, Cheltenham and Ischia festivals. Its debut album for Chandos Records\, American Quintets\, was awarded Editor’s Choice in Gramophone\, and immediately led to an invitation to record a series of albums for the label. \nTom has performed over forty concertos from Mozart to Ligeti with Aurora Orchestra\, BBC Philharmonic\, BBC Scottish Symphony\, Bournemouth Symphony\, China National Symphony\, Hallé\, Philharmonia\, Royal Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber Orchestra\, collaborating with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy\, Nicholas Collon\, Robin Ticciati and Yan Pascal Tortelier\, or sometimes directing from the piano. He has premiered solo\, chamber and concertante works by many leading composers\, made multiple appearances at the BBC Proms\, and his exceptional versatility has put him in great demand at festivals internationally. \nTom has recorded albums for BIS\, Champs Hill\, Chandos\, Decca\, Orchid and Warner Classics\, appearing as soloist and in collaboration with Elena Urioste\, Alison Balsom\, Guy Johnston\, the Aronowitz Ensemble\, Aurora Orchestra\, Britten Sinfonia and London Symphony Orchestra. He regularly features as soloist on film soundtracks\, including the Oscar-nominated score for The Theory of Everything. He studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama\, and at King’s College\, Cambridge. He won First Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition 2007 and the keyboard section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 2000. \nTom’s compositions and arrangements have been commissioned\, performed and recorded by Alison Balsom\, Matthew Rose\, Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott. His chamber opera for puppets\, The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak\, received an acclaimed three-week run at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2017. He is a lifelong fan of animals with unusual noses.
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LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Coastal Concerts presents 'The Takacs Quartet'
DESCRIPTION:The Takacs Quartert\, \nSATURDAY MARCH 18th at 2 pm| (Performance Insights at 1 pm) \n​Bethel United Methodist Church \nBuy Concert Tickets | Program Notes\n  \nAndrás Fejér(cello) | Edward Dusinberre (first violinist) | Harumi Rhodes (violinist) | Richard O’Neill (violinist) \nRecent winners of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2021\, Chamber category\, the world-renowned Takács Quartet\, is now entering its forty-seventh season. Edward Dusinberre\, Harumi Rhodes (violins)\, Richard O’Neill (viola) and András Fejér (cello) are excited to bring to fruition several innovative projects for the 2021-2022 season.With bandoneon/accordion virtuoso Julien Labro\, the group will perform throughout the USA new works composed for them by Clarice Assad and Bryce Dessner. This season also marks the world premiere of a new quartet written for the Takács by Stephen Hough\, Les Six Rencontres. The Takács will record this extraordinary work for Hyperion Records\, in combination with quartets by Ravel and Dutilleux. \n\n\n\n\n​During the last year\, the Takács marked the arrival of Grammy-award-winning violist\, Richard O’Neill by making two new recordings for Hyperion. Quartets by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn were released in the Fall of 2021\, to be followed in May 2022 by a disc of Haydn’s opp. 42\, 77 and 103. \n​The Takács Quartet continues its role in 2021-2022 as Associate Artists at London’s Wigmore Hall\, performing four concerts there this season. In addition to many concerts in the U.K.\, the ensemble will play at prestigious European venues including the Paris Philharmonie\, Berlin Konzerthaus\, and Teatro Della Pergola\, Florence. The Takács will perform throughout North America\, including concerts in New York\, Boston\, Washington DC\, Princeton\, Ann Arbor\, Berkeley\, San Francisco\, Philadelphia\,Vancouver\, Los Angeles\, Atlanta\, Cleveland\, and Portland. \n​The Takács records for Hyperion Records. The ensemble recently won a Gramophone Classical Music Award 2021 in the Chamber category for their recording of quintets by Amy Beach and Elgar with pianist Garrick Ohlsson. The cd also won a Presto Classical Recording of the Year. Other discs for Hyperion include string quartets by Haydn\, Schubert\, Janáček\, Smetana\, Debussy and Britten\, as well as piano quintets by César Franck and Shostakovich (with Marc-André Hamelin)\, viola quintets by Brahms and Dvorák (with Lawrence Power). For their CDs on the Decca/London label\, the Quartet has won three Gramophone Awards\, a Grammy Award\, three Japanese Record Academy Awards\, Disc of the Year at the inaugural BBC Music Magazine Awards\, and Ensemble Album of the Year at the Classical Brits. Full details of all recordings can be found in the Recordings section of the Quartet’s website. \n​In 2014 the Takács became the first string quartet to be awarded the Wigmore Hall Medal. The Medal\, inaugurated in 2007\, recognizes major international artists who have a strong association with the Hall. Recipients include Andras Schiff\, Thomas Quasthoff\, Menahem Pressler and Dame Felicity Lott. In 2012\, Gramophone announced that the Takács was the first string quartet to be inducted into its Hall of Fame\, along with such legendary artists as Jascha Heifetz\, Leonard Bernstein and Dame Janet Baker. The ensemble also won the 2011 Award for Chamber Music and Song presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London. \n​The Takács Quartet is known for innovative programming. The ensemble performed a program inspired by Philip Roth’s novel Everyman with Meryl Streep at Princeton in 2014\, and again with her at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in 2015. They first performed Everyman at Carnegie Hall in 2007 with Philip Seymour Hoffman. They have toured 14 cities with the poet Robert Pinsky\, collaborate regularly with the Hungarian Folk group Muzsikas\, and in 2010 they collaborated with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and David Lawrence Morse on a drama project that explored the composition of Beethoven’s last quartets. \n​Based in Boulder at the University of Colorado\, the members of the Takács Quartet are Christoffersen Faculty Fellows. The Quartet has helped to develop a string program with a special emphasis on chamber music\, where students work in a nurturing environment designed to help them develop their artistry. Through the university\, two of the quartet’s members benefit from the generous loan of instruments from the Drake Instrument Foundation. The members of the Takács are on the faculty at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara\, where they run an intensive summer string quartet seminar\, and Visiting Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music\, London. \n​The Takács Quartet was formed in 1975 at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest by Gabor Takács-Nagy\, Károly Schranz\, Gabor Ormai and András Fejér\, while all four were students. It first received international attention in 1977\, winning First Prize and the Critics’ Prize at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian\, France. The Quartet also won the Gold Medal at the 1978 Portsmouth and Bordeaux Competitions and First Prizes at the Budapest International String Quartet Competition in 1978 and the Bratislava Competition in 1981. \n​András Fejér \nAndrás Fejér(cello) was born in 1955 into a musical family. His father was a cellist and conductor\, and his mother was a pianist. He began playing the cello at the age of seven\, because as legend has it\, his father was unwilling to listen to a violin-upstart practicing. Since an early age\, his parents have held string quartet weekends\, which\, for the young cellist were the most memorable of occasions\, if not for the music\, then for the glorious desserts his mother used to prepare for those sessions. \n​After attending a music high school\, Mr. Fejér was admitted to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1975\, where he was a pupil of Ede Banda\, András Mihály\, Ferenc Rados and György Kurtág. That same year he founded the Takács String Quartet with three fellow classmates. Although the quartet has been his sole professional focus since then\, he does perform as a soloist occasionally as well. \nMr. Fejér is married to a literature teacher. They have three children and live in the Rocky Mountains where they enjoy year-round sunshine in beautiful Boulder\, Colorado. When he is not on tour he enjoys reading\, photography\, tennis and hiking. \n​Edward Dusinberre \nAs first violinist of the Takács Quartet\, Edward Dusinberre has won a Grammy and awards from Gramophone Magazine\, the Japanese Recording Academy\, Chamber Music America and the Royal Philharmonic Society. Outside of the quartet he has made a recording of Beethoven’s violin sonatas nos. 9 (Kreutzer) and 10 on the Decca label and recently performed Costa Concordia\, a concerto composed for him by Jeffrey Nytch\, inspired by the tragic story of violinist Sándor Fehér who was drowned on the cruise ship of that name in 2012. Dusinberre is also an author. His book Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet\, takes the reader inside the life of a string quartet\, melding music history and memoir as it explores the circumstances surrounding the composition of Beethoven’s quartets and the Takács Quartet’s experiences rehearsing and performing this music. The book was published by Faber in the UK and the University of Chicago Press\, winning the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2016 Creative Communication Award. Announcing the award the RPS Committee said: “Few have told so well of the musician’s life\, or offered such illuminating insights to players and listeners alike.” The book has recently been translated into German and a Korean edition will be released soon. Dusinberre lives in Boulder\, where he is Artist-in-Residence and a Christoffersen Fellow at the University of Colorado. In 2017 he was appointed a member of the faculty at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and is a Visiting Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. \n​Harumi Rhodes \nAcclaimed by theNew York Times as a “deeply expressive violinist\,” Harumi Rhodes has gained broad recognition as a multifaceted musician with a distinctive and sincere musical voice. Her generosity of spirit on stage is contagious\, making her one of the most sought-after violinists of her generation. Recent solo engagements include performances of Bernstein Serenade\, Beethoven Violin Concerto\, Mozart Violin Concerto No 5\, and Vivaldi Four Seasons with the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra. In addition to being a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning ensemble\, Trio Cavatina\, she has performed regularly with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Musicians from Marlboro. An avid supporter of contemporary music\, she has been actively involved in commissioning and premiering new works as an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society\, East Coast Chamber Orchestra(ECCO)\, and Music from Copland House. Recent discography includes Milton Babbitt’s String Quartet No. 6 (Tzadik); The Five Borough Songbook\, including 20 different composers and commissions (GPR Records); Compadrazgo\, a compilation of chamber works by Gabriela Lena Frank (Albany Records); Secret Alchemy\, with ensemble works by Pierre Jalbert (Copland House Blend); and Clean Plates Don’t Lie\, featuring new vocal chamber music works with texts from Chef Dan Barber and the sustainable food movement (Centaur). Rhodes has served as Head of Strings and Chamber Music at Syracuse University\, Assistant Violin Faculty at the Juilliard School\, and most recently as Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Colorado-Boulder. \n​Richard O’Neill \nNewly appointed violist of the Takács Quartet\, Richard O’Neill has distinguished himself as one of the great instrumentalists of his generation. \n​An EMMY Award winner\, two time GRAMMY nominee and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient\, he has appeared as soloist with the world’s top orchestras including the London\, Los Angeles\, Seoul Philharmonics\, the BBC\, Hiroshima\, Korean Symphonies\, the Kremerata Baltica\, Moscow\, Vienna and Wurtemburg Chamber Orchestras\, Alte Musik Koln\, and has worked with distinguished musicians and conductors including Andrew Davis\, Vladimir Jurowski\, Francois Xavier Roth and Yannick Nezet-Seguin. An Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Principal Violist of Camerata Pacifica\, for thirteen seasons he served as Artistic Director of DITTO\, his South Korean chamber music project\, leading the ensemble on international tours to China and Japan and introducing tens of thousands to music. \n​A Universal Music/Deutsche Grammophon recording artist\, he has made 10 solo albums and many other chamber music recordings\, earning multiple platinum discs. Composers Lera Auerbach\, Elliott Carter\, Paul Chihara\, John Harbison and Huang Ruo have written works for him. He has appeared on major TV networks in South Korea and enjoyed huge success with his 2004 KBS documentary ‘Human Theater’ which was viewed by over 12 million people\, and his 2013 series ‘Hello?! Orchestra’ which featured his work with a multicultural youth orchestra for MBC and led to an International Emmy in Arts Programming and a feature length film. \n​He serves as Goodwill Ambassador for the Korean Red Cross\, The Special Olympics\, UNICEF and OXFAM and serves on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.
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LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Curtis on Tour Viano String Quartet and Roberto Diaz\, viola
DESCRIPTION:Praised for their “huge range of dynamics\, massive sound and spontaneity” (American Record Guide)\, the Viano String Quartet is the First Prize Winner of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition and the current Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music. Formed in 2015 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles\, the quartet has performed all over the world in venues such as Wigmore Hall\, Place Flagey\, Izumi Hall\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, and Segerstrom Center for the Arts. \nThe 2022-2023 season brings the Viano String Quartet on extensive tours throughout Europe\, Canada\, and the United States\, with recital debuts in New York City\, Hannover\, Zurich\, Budapest\, Cologne\, Heidelberg\, Eisenstadt\, San Diego\, Denver\, Calgary\, Newport\, and Philadelphia\, among other cities. The quartet will also return to Southern Methodist University\, where they are in residence through the 22/23 season. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCurtis on Tour\nViano String Quartet\nand Roberto Diaz\n\n\nSATURDAY FEBRUARY 18th @ 2 pm \n(Performance Insights  @ 1 pm) \n​ \nBethel United Methodist Church \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Concert Tickets\nProgram Notes\n\n\n\nSince the 2020 Covid pandemic\, the Viano String Quartet has been actively presenting virtual and socially distanced live concerts for various organizations\, including the Dallas Chamber Music Society\, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival\, Friends of Chamber Music of Troy\, Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society\, Salt Lake Chamber Music Society\, Women’s Musical Club of Toronto\, Schneider Series at the New School\, Bravo! Vail Music Festival\, Rockport Chamber Music Festival\, and the Banff International String Quartet Festival. With their colleagues in the Calidore String Quartet\, they presented a movement of the Mendelssohn Octet while distanced across countries in a film project “The Way Forward.” \nThe quartet achieved incredible success in their formative years\, with an unbroken streak of top prizes. In addition to their career-defining achievement at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition\, they received the Grand Prize at the 2019 ENKOR International Music Competition and second prize at the 2019 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition. At the 2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition they received Third Prize\, the Haydn Prize for the best performance of a Haydn quartet\, and the Sidney Griller Award for the best performance of the compulsory work\, Thomas Ades’ “The Four Quarters”. They received the Silver Medal at the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition\, and Third Prize at the 2017 9th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition before any of the members turned 20. \nCommitted to engaging with communities outside the concert hall\, the Viano String Quartet has given presentations for school children and students of all ages through residencies in Bellingham\, Washington—the “Play it Forward” residency\, a collaboration between the Bellingham Festival of Music and the Whatcom Symphony to reach school children in the northern Washington State area—Northern Michigan University\, and the Santa Monica Conservatory. In 2019 they gave multiple performances of “Over the Top”\, a Musical Encounter Interactive presentation they scripted\, developed and performed at the Colburn School for inner city school children. \nAt the Curtis Institute\, the Viano String Quartet is chiefly mentored by the Dover Quartet and other members of the Curtis faculty\, including Shmuel Ashkenasi\, Pamela Frank\, Ida Kavafian\, Arnold Steinhardt\, Steven Tenenbom\, and Peter Wiley. As the inaugural ensemble-in-residence at the Colburn Conservatory of Music from 2019-2021\, they were mentored extensively by Martin Beaver\, Scott St. John\, Clive Greensmith\, Paul Coletti and Fabio Bidini. The Vianos have also received coachings from artists such as David Finckel\, Gary Hoffman\, Jean-Yves Thibaudet\, and members of the Alban Berg\, Brentano\, Emerson\, Miró\, Shanghai\, St. Lawrence\, and Takács String Quartets. They have attended the Ravinia Steans Chamber Music Institute\, St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar\, Festival d’Aix en Provence\, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival\, Great lakes Chamber Music Festival\, and the McGill International String Quartet Academy. \nOver the years\, the quartet has collaborated in performance with artists such as Emanuel Ax\, Noah Bendix-Balgley\, Marc-Andre Hamelin\, Rodolfo Leone\, Eliso Virsaladze\, and Orion Weiss\, and look forward to collaborations with Inon Barnatan\, Michelle Cann\, and Roberto Diaz in the upcoming season. \nThe name “Viano” was created to describe the four individual instruments in a string quartet interacting as one. Each of the four instruments begins with the letter “v”\, and like a piano\, all four string instruments together play both harmony and melody\, creating a unified instrument called the “Viano”. \nLearn more at VianoStringQuartet.com. \nRoberto Díaz \nA violist of international reputation\, Roberto Díaz is president and CEO of the Curtis Institute of Music\, following in the footsteps of renowned soloist/directors such as Josef Hofmann\, Efrem Zimbalist\, and Rudolf Serkin. As a teacher of viola at Curtis and former principal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra\, Mr. Díaz has already had a significant impact on American musical life and continues to do so in his dual roles as performer and educator. \nAs a soloist\, Mr. Díaz collaborates with leading conductors of our time on stages throughout North and South America\, Europe\, and Asia.  He has also worked directly with important 20th- and 21st-century composers\, including Krzysztof Penderecki—whose viola concerto he has performed many times with the composer on the podium and whose double concerto he premiered in the United States—as well as Edison Denisov\, Jennifer Higdon\, Ricardo Lorenz\, and Roberto Sierra. His recording of Jennifer Higdon’s Viola Concerto won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2018. \nAs a frequent recitalist\, Mr. Díaz enjoys collaborating with young pianists\, bringing a fresh approach to the repertoire and providing invaluable opportunities to artists at the beginnings of their careers. In addition to performing with major string quartets and pianists in chamber music series and festivals worldwide\, Mr. Díaz has toured Europe\, Asia\, and the Americas as a member of the Díaz Trio with violinist Andrés Cárdenes and cellist Andrés Díaz. The Díaz Trio has recorded for the Artek and Dorian labels. \nMr. Díaz’s recordings on the Naxos label with pianist Robert Koenig include the complete works for viola and piano by Henri Vieuxtemps and a Grammy-nominated disc of viola transcriptions by William Primrose. Also on Naxos are Brahms sonatas with pianist Jeremy Denk and Jonathan Leshnoff’s Double Concerto with violinist Charles Wetherbee and the Iris Chamber Orchestra led by Michael Stern. Mr. Díaz’s live performance of Jacob Druckman’s Viola Concerto with Wolfgang Sawallisch and the Philadelphia Orchestra is available on New World Records. He has also recorded the Walton Viola Concerto with William Boughton and the New Haven Symphony for Nimbus Records\, and works for viola and orchestra by Peter Lieberson with Scott Yoo and the Odense Symphony Orchestra and for Bridge Records. \nSince founding Curtis on Tour in 2007\, Mr. Díaz has taken this successful initiative to North and South America\, Europe\, and Asia\, performing chamber music side-by-side with Curtis students and other faculty and alumni of the school. His tenure as president of Curtis has also seen the construction of a significant new building which doubled the size of the school’s campus; the introduction of a classical guitar department and new conducting and string quartet programs; and the launch of Curtis Summerfest\, summer courses open to the public. In the fall of 2013 Curtis became the first classical music conservatory to offer free online classes through Coursera. \nAlso under Mr. Díaz’s leadership\, Curtis has developed lasting collaborations with other music and arts institutions in Philadelphia and throughout the world and established a dynamic social entrepreneurship curriculum\, supported by a prestigious Advancement Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Designed to develop the entrepreneurial and advocacy skills of young musicians\, this curriculum includes the project-based Community Artist Program (CAP) and the post-graduate Community Artist Fellowship program\, which gives recent Curtis graduates the opportunity to dedicate a year of arts-based service to the community. \nMr. Díaz received an honorary doctorate from Bowdoin College and was awarded an honorary membership by the National Board of the American Viola Society. In 2013 he became a member of the prestigious American Philosophical Society founded by Benjamin Franklin. As a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra\, he was selected by then-music director Christoph Eschenbach to receive the C. Hartman Kuhn Award\, given annually to “the member of the Philadelphia Orchestra who has shown ability and enterprise of such character as to enhance the standards and the reputation of the Philadelphia Orchestra.” He received a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music\, where he studied with Burton Fine; and a diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music\, where his teacher was his predecessor at the Philadelphia Orchestra\, Joseph de Pasquale. Mr. Díaz also holds a degree in industrial design. \nIn addition to his decade-long tenure as principal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra\, where he performed the entire standard viola concerto repertoire and gave a number of Philadelphia Orchestra premieres\, Mr.  Díaz was principal viola of the National Symphony under Mstislav Rostropovich\, a member of the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa\, and a member of the Minnesota Orchestra under Sir Neville Marriner. He plays the ex-Primrose Amati viola. \nAll copy and pics from the website:
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LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Imani Winds\, Woodwind Quintet\, Coastal Concerts
DESCRIPTION:IMANI WINDS \nBrandon Patrick George\, flute \nToyin Spellman-Diaz\, oboe \nMark Dover\, clarinet \nKevin Newton\, French horn \nMonica Ellis\, bassoon \nCelebrating over 20 years of music making\, the twice Grammy nominated Imani Winds has led both a revolution and the evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing\, adventurous programming\, imaginative collaborations and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds. \nThe ensemble’s playlist embraces traditional chamber music repertoire\, and as a 21st century group\, Imani Winds is devoutly committed to expanding the wind quintet repertoire by commissioning music from new voices that reflect historical events and the times in which we currently live. \nPresent and future season performances include a Jessie Montgomery composition inspired by her great-grandfather’s migration from the American south to the north; and\, socially conscious music by Andy Akiho designed to be performed both on the concert stage and in front of immigrant detention centers throughout the country. \nImani Winds regularly performs in prominent international concert venues\, including Carnegie Hall\, Lincoln Center\, The Kennedy Center\, Walt Disney Hall and the Kimmel Center. Their touring schedule has taken them throughout the Asian continent\, Brazil\, Australia\, England\, New Zealand and across Europe. \nTheir national and international presence includes performances at chamber music series in Boston\, New York\, Washington D.C.\, San Francisco\, Philadelphia and Houston. Festival performances include Chamber Music Northwest\, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival\, Ravinia Festival\, Chautauqua\, Banff Centre and Music from Angel Fire. \nImani Winds’ travels through the jazz world are highlighted by their association with saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter\, woodwind artist and composer Paquito D’Rivera and pianist and composer Jason Moran. Their ambitious project\, “Josephine Baker: A Life of Le Jazz Hot!” featured chanteuse René Marie in performances that brought the house down in New York\, Pittsburgh\, San Francisco\, Los Angeles and St. Louis. \nImani Winds’ commitment to education runs deep. The group participates in residencies throughout the U.S.\, giving performances and master classes to thousands of students each year. Academic and institutional residencies include the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, Duke University\, University of Chicago\, Curtis Institute of Music\, University of Michigan\, Da Camera of Houston and numerous others across the country. \nThe ensemble launched its annual Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival in 2010\, bringing together young instrumentalists and composers from across North America and abroad for exploration and performance of the standard repertoire and newly composed chamber music. Festival participants also take part in workshops devoted to entrepreneurial and outreach opportunities\, with the goal of creating the complete musician and global citizen. \nIn 2021\, Imani Winds released their latest album\, Bruits on Bright Shiny Things Records which garnered the ensemble their second Grammy Award nomination. Grammophone states\, “the ensemble’s hot rapport churns with conviction throughout…” \nImani Winds has six albums on Koch International Classics and E1 Music\, including their Grammy Award nominated recording\, The Classical Underground. They have also recorded for Naxos and Blue Note and released Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring on Warner Classics. Their most recent recording\, Bruits\, has been receiving critical acclaim since its release on the Bright Shiny Things label in February 2021. \nImani Winds is regularly featured on all media platforms including NPR\, American Public Media\, the BBC\, SiriusXM\, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. \nIn 2016\, Imani Winds received their greatest accolade in their two decades of music making: a permanent presence in the classical music section of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C.
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LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Mariners Bethel Live Nativity and Family movie "The Star"
DESCRIPTION:The Christmas story will be told\, and retold every half hour outside of the church– inside if the inclement weather.
URL:https://delawareretiree.com/event/mariners-bethel-live-nativity-and-family-movie-the-star/
LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Christmas Concert "All is well" United Methodist Mariners Bethel
DESCRIPTION:Come and enjoy this combined Christmas concert featuring the Bell choir\, Mariners Mighty Choir and the Praise and Worship Band. We are all in this together. Whether you like to sing along or sit and listen\, the truth of Christ’s birth will be front and center. All is welcome! Childcare will be provided.
URL:https://delawareretiree.com/event/christmas-concert-all-is-well-united-methodist-mariners-bethel/
LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:The Capital Ringers\, Christmas Concert
DESCRIPTION:“Capital Ringers is a versatile community handbell ensemble known regionally for a vast repertoire including rock n’ roll\, jazz\, patriotic\, sacred and current top 40 tunes\,​ in addition to traditional holiday favorites.\nWe own the largest set of handbells and handchimes on the Delmarva Peninsula.\n \nLinda Simms\, founder and artistic director of Capital Ringers\, has chosen her favorite audience-pleasing holiday selections for her final performances. She and her husband\, Jim\, are retiring at the end of 2022.”\nCapital Ringers Founder and Artistic Director Linda Simms \nAll copy and pics from the website: https://www.capitalringers.org/christmas-reflections/
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LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Coastal Concerts presents Smetana Trio
DESCRIPTION:The Smetana Trio\, founded in 1934 by the legendary Czech pianist Josef Pálenícek\, violinist Alexandr Plocek and cellist František Smetana\, is today’s foremost Czech chamber ensemble. Currently comprised of Jitka Cechová (piano)\, Jan Talich (violin)\, and Jan Pálenícek (cello)\, the Smetana perpetuates the interpretational ideals created by its illustrious predecessors as well as other superlative 20th-century soloists active in chamber music. “There is nothing routine about the Smetana Trio’s approach to this engaging repertoire. Every aspect of their interpretation is carefully considered without losing an ounce of spontaneity. Individual lines are remarkable for their focus and beauty\, though the powerful sense of ensemble is never sacrificed to individual display.”  – BBC Music Magazine \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmetana Trio\n\n\nSATURDAY NOVEMBER 12th @ 7:30 pm \n(Performance Insights  @ 6:30 pm) \nBethel United Methodist Church \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Concert Tickets | Program Notes\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing a triumphant\, multi-city North American tour in the 2017-2018 season\, the Smetana Trio returned to the United States in spring 2019 with programs including piano trios by Rachmaninoff\, Martinů\, Dvořák\, Novak\, and Smetana.  Highlights from this tour included performances at the University of Oregon\, Friends of Chamber Music Vancouver\, and Queen’s University in Ontario.  Overseas\, the Trio embarked on several European tours with performances throughout the Czech Republic\, Germany\, Switzerland\, Italy\, and the United Kingdom\, where the Trio was presented by London’s Wigmore Hall. The Trio returns to North America in the 2022-2023 sesaon. \nThe Smetana Trio has toured extensively in both chamber ensemble and as orchestral soloists\, working with conductors such as Jirí Belohlávek\, Libor Pešek\, John Axelrod\, Michael Boder\, Tomáš Hanus and Stanislav Vavrínek and orchestras such as the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra\, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana Lugano\, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire\, Prague Symphony Orchestra\, Prague Philharmonic\, Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice and Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc. Festivals and concert series include Cambrai\, Aix-en-Provence and Nice in France\, and Munich\, Würzburg and Tübingen in Germany. In 2015 the Smetana Trio toured South America with performances in Lima\, Medellin\, Rio de Janeiro as well as the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. \nWith an impressive discography of nearly a dozen albums recorded exclusively for Supraphon since 2000\, the group’s recordings include an album featuring the complete piano trios of Shostakovich and Ravel\, and an all-Dvořák disc which received BBC Music Magazine’s Chamber Award for 2007 and the French Diapason d’Or. Additional discs include works by Smetana\, Tchaikovsky\, Mendelssohn and Schubert. In 2019\, the group released a new album of late-19th century piano trios by Zemlinsky\, Rachmaninov\, and Arensky. In spring 2017\, the Smetana Trio was voted to win the BBC Music Magazine’s Chamber Award for its recording of the complete trios by Bohuslav Martinů\, released by Supraphon Records in March 2015. The acclaimed recording received such recognition as BBC Music Magazine’s June 2016 Recording of the Month\, Sunday Times Recording of the Week\, Diapason d’Or award\, and a review on theArtsDesk.com opining “this is the greatest chamber disc I’ve heard in ages\, and I can’t imagine a better introduction to Martinů’s music.”
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LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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SUMMARY:Coastal Concerts presents Amy Yang
DESCRIPTION:A “jaw-dropping pianist who steals the show…with effortless finesse” (Washington Post)\, Amy Yang balances an active career as soloist\, chamber musician and pedagogue. In 2020\, she shared the stage with Anne-Marie McDermott\, Yefim Bronfman\, Paul Neubauer\, and the Dover Quartet in a myriad of performances at Bravo! Vail. Additionally\, she gave her solo debut as well as joined forces with the Jasper String Quartet in piano quintets by Tania Léon and Joan Tower for Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s 35th season. She was also featured in a full episode with Emmy® Award-winning producer Jim Cotter of Articulate\, aired on PBS in 2021. 2021 also brought about appearances with violinist Tessa Lark at Wigmore Hall\, Gardner Museum\, Cal Performances\, Rockport Music Festival\, and International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Series. Her upcoming appearances will be at Hawaii Concert Society\, Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston\, The Seattle Series\, Music at Pine Street\, Coastal Concerts (DE)\, with violist Roberto Díaz and oboist Philippe Tondre for Philadelphia Chamber Music Society\, and playing with violinists Danbi Um and Paul Huang at Santa Fe Music Festival\, Cleveland Chamber Music Society\, and Chamber Music San Francisco. \nAt the Curtis Institute of Music\, she is the Associate Dean of Piano Studies and Artistic Initiatives. She will make her debut playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä at Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center in April\, 2023. \nCollaborating with leading musicians\, Ms. Yang toured with Patricia Kopatchinskaya\, Tito Muñoz and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra\, and premiered music by Michael Hersch at Cal Performances\, Ojai Music Festival and Aldeburgh Festival. Additional collaborations include performances with Richard Goode\, Anne-Marie McDermott\, Ida and Ani Kavafian\, Miriam Fried\, Bomsori Kim\, Roberto Díaz\, Kim Kashkashian\, Tessa Lark\, Paul Neubauer\, Tara Helen O’Conor\, Joseph Silverstein\, members of Guarneri String Quartet\, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra\, Dover Quartet\, Aizuri String Quartet\, Jasper String Quartet and A Far Cry. In addition to working with Dame Mitsuko Uchida at Marlboro School of Music\, she was chosen to participate in her Carnegie Hall Workshop on Mozart’s Piano Concerti. \nShe has soloed with Houston Symphony\, Tuscaloosa Symphony\, Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra\, Mansfield Symphony and Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata at UNAM. \nMs. Yang has premiered music by Caroline Shaw\, Avner Dorman\, Michael Hersch\, Ezra Laderman\, Paul Wianko and Hua Yang. Festival appearances include Marlboro Music Festival\, Ravinia Festival\, Prussia Cove\, Verbier Academy\, Bravo! Vail\, Chamber Music Northwest\, Chelsea Music Festival\, Caramoor\, Olympic Music Festival\, Music from Angel Fire\, Twickenham Fest\, Saltbay Chamberfest\, among others.​ \nAn active recording artist\, her discography includes her solo album “Resonance” (MSR Classics)\, a world premiere recording of piano music by Ezra Laderman (Albany Records)\, albums with violinists Itamar Zorman (BIS Records)\, Tessa Lark (First Hand Records)\, Danbi Um\, Carol Jantsch\, and José Franch-Ballester (iTinerant Records). \n​ \nAt Curtis Institute of Music\, she previously held the roles of program director and piano faculty of Curtis Summerfest’s Young Artist Summer Program for nine summers. She also teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. She has given masterclasses at UCLA\, Mannes College of Music\, University of Oklahoma\, for New York Youth Symphony\, and her students have soloed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and entered Oberlin Conservatory of Music\, Bard Conservatory\, Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music\, Eastman School of Music and Indiana University. \nWinner of the 2018 Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia prize and the Kosciuszko National Chopin Piano Competition\, she is an alumna of Curtis Institute of Music\, Juilliard School and Yale School of Music\, where she received the Parisot Award for Outstanding Pianist and the Alumni Association Prize. \nAiming to lead a life rich in learning\, she would love to spend more time studying painting\, neuroscience\, and gardening. \nBIO \nTED BABCOCK \nComposer of the Polyphonic Field for piano and electronics \nTed Babcock is a Philadelphia based composer and percussionist. As a composer\, his works ride the boundaries between conceptual electronics\, percussive counterpoint\, and an instinctual lyricism. The 2021/2022 season includes the premiere of his first solo album Trilogies for solo percussionist and electronics\, which was praised by I Care if You Listen as “…worthy of redefining the repertoire on the vibraphone.”Other premieres include new works for pianist Amy Yang and the Viano String Quartet. Past commissions include works for the arx percussion duo\, Fringe Arts Philadelphia\, the Philadelphia Wind Symphony\, and percussionist/ videographer Evan Chapman and flutist Antonina Styczen. \nAs a percussionist\, he has performed with Grammy award winning contemporary music groups such as the Boston Modern Orchestra Project\, The Crossing choir\, and eighth blackbird. His playing has been featured in the New York Times\, NPR and Rolling Stone Magazine. \nA committed educator\, he spent three seasons as a teaching artist for Play On\, Philly!\, an after school music program offering orchestral training to underserved youth in the Philadelphia area free of charge. He received degrees in composition\, percussion\, and community artistry from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and the Curtis Institute of Music. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Yang\n\n\nSATURDAY OCTOBER 22nd @ 7:30 pm \n(Performance Insights  @ 6:30 pm) \nBethel United Methodist Church \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Concert Tickets \ Watch Video\n\nAll copy and pics from the website: https://www.coastalconcerts.org/
URL:https://delawareretiree.com/event/coastal-concerts-presents-amy-yang/
LOCATION:Bethel United Methodist Church\, 129 West Fourth Street\, Lewes\, Delaware\, 19958
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