Two award-winning classical musicians will current a seldom-performed repertoire for viola and piano in “Bridge, Brahms and Past” introduced by the Kingston Chamber Music Competition on Friday, March 17, 7-9pm on the Jamestown Arts Heart.
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt and Natalie Zhu will carry out a “kaleidoscope of sound” by means of dynamic items curated to focus on the distinctive viola sound: Brahms Sonata in F minor, Two Items by Frank Bridge, Morpheus by Rebecca Clarke and alternatives from the beloved Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev (a not often performed piece which reimagines Shakespeare’s masterpiece from a composer’s perspective).
Beth Etter, government director of the Kingston Chamber Music Competition presents, “Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt is without doubt one of the most distinguished violists of her technology. She and Natalie Zhu met by means of final yr’s KCMF’s summer time performances. Impressed to collaborate, they are going to share a stage for the primary time to ship a not often carried out repertoire. Primarily based on the optimistic preliminary viewers response, we anticipate a bought out present.”
“The vary of the viola is on common probably the most much like the human voice. I really like how soulful the timbre is,” Pajaro-van de Stadt states.
Zhu provides, “So wealthy and heat, it’s a sound you can’t discover with different devices.”
“There’s nothing like listening to lovely music whereas surrounded by lovely artwork,” states Maureen Coleman, the Jamestown Arts Heart’s government director. “The Jamestown Arts Heart’s high-ceilinged, spacious artwork gallery provides to the suave expertise – classical music sounds unimaginable within the area!”
Each musicians are graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music. Pajaro-van de Stadt was the founding violist of the award-winning Dover Quartet from 2008-2022. Her Wigmore Corridor recital was hailed as being “fleet and energetic…highly effective and targeted” by Strad Journal. Along with appearances as soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, and Sphinx Chamber Orchestra, she has carried out all through the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia. Zhu is the recipient of quite a few awards, and has carried out all through North America, Europe, and Asia as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. The Philadelphia Inquirer described her enjoying as “deeply emotional and pianistic pyrotechnics.” She is thought for fascinating interpretations of a large repertoire and has served because the inventive director of KCMF since 2009.
The Kingston Chamber Music Competition will have fun its thirty fifth season subsequent summer time. The 2-week Competition brings famend musicians along with younger, rising artists to carry out six live shows within the Positive Arts Heart Live performance Corridor on the College of Rhode Island. The Kingston Chamber Music Competition additionally presents particular live shows and occasions in various settings all year long.
Tickets are $35 common admission and out there right here. JAC services are accessible.
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