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Hayk Arsenyan at Steinway Hall, Save the Date
Pianist Hayk Arsenian plays rarely performed sonatas and fandango from 18th-century Catalan composer Antonio Soler. Hayk Arsenyan published a performance guide to Soler’s sonatas in 2009, and has performed in Europe, Asia and America, at venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Palais d’UNESCO, Salle Cortot (Paris), Tchaikovsky Hall, the Kremlin (Moscow), Petranka Mozarteum (Prague),…
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Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents An Evening with Troy Colt Bands in Review
Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents An Evening with Troy Colt Bands The Troy High School Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Jazz Ensemble, Flute Choir, Saxophone Choir Brian P. Nutting, Director; Jeff Krum, Assistant Director Guests: Marcus Elliot, Jazz Artist-in-Residence; Amanda Sabelhaus, Piano; Albert Gonzales, “The Royal Piper,” Bagpipes; Members of the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble:…
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Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Vocal Colors in Review
Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Vocal Colors Eric A. Johnson, Eric Barnum, John Conahan, conductors Distinguished Concerts Singers International University of the Incarnate Word Cardinal Chorale (TX), William Gokelman, Director Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, New York, NY March 20, 2017 Listen. Learn. Enunciate. Cooperate. Blend. These are but a handful of…
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Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents I Hear America Singing: The Music of André Thomas and Greg Gilpin in Review
Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents I Hear America Singing: The Music of André Thomas and Greg Gilpin West Orange High School Concert Choir (FL) Jeffery Redding, Director Greg Gilpin, Composer/Conductor; George Hemcher, Piano André Thomas, Composer/Conductor; Kirsten Kemp, Piano Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium, New York,…
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Kara Huber in Review
Kara Huber, Piano Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY March 16, 2017 An absolutely dazzling New York solo debut was given this week by American pianist Kara Huber. If that is “cutting to the chase” rather quickly, compared to the usual scene-setting introduction, I figured I’d better commit it to…
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Clarion presents The Magic Flute in Review
Clarion presents The Magic Flute The Clarion Orchestra, The Clarion Choir Steven Fox, conductor and artistic director Alain Gauthier, stage director El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY March 11, 2017 On a frigid Saturday night, Clarion presented Mozart’s The Magic Flute, or to be more proper, Die Zauberflöte, as it was to be…
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Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Wind Songs in Review
Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Wind Songs Olathe North High School (KS) Symphonic Band, Percussion Ensemble, and Wind Ensemble Justin W. Love, Director of Bands; John Wickersham, Assistant Director of Bands Kingwood High School Band (TX) Destry Balch, Director; Tyler Morrison, Assistant Director Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium, New York, NY March 12, 2017…
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Key Pianists presents Terry Eder in Review
Key Pianists presents Terry Eder, piano Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY March 2, 2017 A musician’s musician is the phrase I kept returning to mentally during Terry Eder’s distinguished Weill Hall recital, the second of this season’s Key Pianists series. She is a pianist with utter seriousness of conception, beauty of…
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The Alexander & Buono Foundation presents Thomas Nickell and Orchestra of the Swan in Review
The Alexander & Buono Foundation presents Thomas Nickell and Orchestra of the Swan Thomas Nickell, piano Orchestra of the Swan David Curtis, conductor Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall February 26, 2017 The collaboration of pianist Thomas Nickell and the Orchestra of the Swan, under conductor David Curtis, was a decidedly unorthodox and mostly…
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Philip Petkov in Review
Philip Petkov, Piano The Consulate General of Bulgaria New York, NY February 23, 2017 Far from the madding crowds of New York’s larger venues, in an elegant second-floor room at the Consulate General of Bulgaria, a gathering of music lovers enjoyed a recital of piano music that felt in some ways like a throwback…