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Trio ‘Toiyabe’ Tour
Mark your calendar for the upcoming World Premiere performances of Trio ‘Toiyabe’ in May 2024.
Commissioned by the Toiyabe Chamber Music Society to celebrate their new name, and featuring Dustin Budish, viola, Aaron Hill, oboe, and Emily Montoya Barnes, harp.
On Saturday, May 11, 2024, at 7 pm at St. Thomas Aquinas, 310 W. 2nd Street, Reno, Nevada, with additional performances on Friday, May 24, 2024, at 7 pm at the Fallon Theater in Fallon, Nevada, and on Saturday, May 25, 2024, at 3 pm at Eureka Opera House in Eureka, Nevada.
All three concerts will be presented free of charge.
For further information please visit:
https://toiyabemusic.org
Art Song Album Release
On March 15, 2024, my latest compilation album ‘A Breath of Air: American Art Song’ will be available from your favorite streaming service.
Soprano Andrea Chenoweth Wells, baritone Andrew White, and tenor Albert Rudolph Lee perform, together with collaborative pianists Eric Charnofsky, John Benjamin, and John Etsell. The album feature settings of poems by Maggie Anderson, Elizabeth Bradfield, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, and James Wright.
For further information about this release please visit:
World Premiere of “Variations on Jehan Alain’s ‘Litanies'” for Solo Violin on Valentine’s Day
Violinst Stephanie Sant-Ambrogio presented the World Premiere of this new work in recital on February 14, 2024, in the Harlan O. and Barbara R. Hall Recital Hall, at the University of Nevada Reno.
Here is the link to listen and view:
https://vimeo.com/user10937821/videos/sort:date/format:detail
Song Cycle ‘de la Noche’ premiere at Bowling Green State University
Mezzo-soprano Katherine Pracht Phares and pianist Kevin Bylsma delivered an impressive premiere performance of this cycle of seven songs on poems of Federico Garcia Lorca, in Spanish, on the evening of January 17,2024, in Bryan Recital Hall, at Bowling Green State University in Toledo, Ohio.
Nevada Chamber Music Festival to Perform String Quartet No. 3 on New Years Eve
On December 31, 2023, at 2:00 p.m., in Harlan O. and Barbara Hall Recital Hall on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, the Nevada Chamber Music Festival will present Monica’s String Quartet No. 3, on a program entitled, ‘Beyond Tomorrow.’ For further information and tickets click here: https://www.renochamberorchestra.org/ncmfrepertoire