Pianist Simon Trpceski, a Macedonian musical treasure,
will play a recital of Schubert and Liszt worksTelegraph, UK).
The recital will open with Franz Schubert’s German Dances,
a suite of light dances of varying character and style, performed as one long
work. Following is Schubert’s epic Wanderer
Fantasy, a technically demanding work written when the composer was just 25
years old, that uses dense textures to compress an entire orchestra into the
piano keyboard. Franz Liszt’s transcription and arrangement of J.S. Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in A Minor (BWV 543)
follows, demonstrating Liszt’s understanding of organ-playing and the ways in
which the organ’s many voices can be replicated—or at least emulated—using the
piano. The next Liszt composition on the program, inspired by a Schubert suite,
is Soirees de Vienne, valse caprices.
The transitions and enhancements Liszt made to these nine brief Schubert
waltzes are as interesting and entertaining as the underlying works themselves.
The final work on the program, Liszt’s Hungarian
Rhapsody No. 2, is often known through its orchestral transcription. It
showcases the composer’s rich knowledge of, and deep affection for, the folk
music of his native Hungary—perhaps surprising given that Liszt’s family moved
to Vienna when Franz was just 10 years old and the composer rarely returned as
an adult.
Simon Trpceski was born in the Republic of Macedonia in
1979. He studied with Boris Romanov at the University of St. Cyril and St.
Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia, and now resides and serves on the music faculty
there. In addition to winning several international piano competitions over his
career, Trpceski received the Young Artist Award by the Royal Philharmonic
Society (UK), the Presidential Order of Merit from the president of Macedonia,
and the title “National Artist of the Republic of Macedonia”—the first artist
granted this title. In addition to solo recital and festival performances
worldwide, Trpceski has played with leading orchestras including the London
Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco
Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw, Russian National Orchestra, Hong Kong
Philharmonic, and the Sydney and Melbourne Symphonies. He has recorded music of
Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Debussy, and others for the EMI
label. His official website, with content in English, is trpceski.com.
Ticket information:
Tickets for Simon Trpceski, piano on Sunday, April 14 at
3:00 p.m. in Hertz Hall are priced at $46.00, subject to change. Tickets are
available through the Ticket Office at Zellerbach Hall; at (510) 642-9988; at
www.calperformances.org; and at the door. Half-price tickets are available for
UC Berkeley students. UC faculty and staff, senior citizens, other students and
UC Alumni Association members receive a $5.00 discount (Special Events
excluded). For select performances, Cal Performances offers UCB student,
faculty and staff, senior, and community rush tickets. For more information about discounts, go to
http://calperformances.org/buy/discounts.php or call (510) 642-9988.
Sunday, April 14, at 3:00 p.m.
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave., Berkeley
Simon Trpceski, piano
Program:
Schubert: German
Dances, D. 783
Schubert: Fantasy in
C major, D. 760 (Wanderer Fantasy)
Liszt: Prelude and
Fugue in A minor (after J. S. Bach)
Liszt: Soirées de Vienne: Valses caprices d'après Schubert,
S. 427, Nos. 5–7
Liszt: Hungarian
Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor
Tickets: $46.00, subject to change; available through the
Cal Performances Ticket Office at Zellerbach Hall; at (510) 642-9988; at
calperformances.org; and at the door.
--Joe Yang, Cal Performances
American Bach
Soloists Celebrate 25th Season in 2013-2014
Subscription Concerts Focus on an Outstanding All-Bach
Series: an ABS Christmas and Handel’s Messiah
at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and the UC Davis Mondavi Center for the
Performing Arts in December; and a 2014 the ABS Bach Festival titled “Bach’s
Inspiration.”
The 2013-14 season marks the 25th annual series of
concerts by the American Bach Soloists (ABS). To honor their illustrious
accomplishments, and looking forward to the next twenty-five years, artistic
and music director Jeffrey Thomas and ABS—“some of the greatest
period-instrument players in the world” (San
Francisco Classical Voice)—present a season celebrating the mastery of
Johann Sebastian Bach. All of the 25th Season concerts will feature the
celebrated American Bach Choir, which “sets the standard in choral singing”
(SFCV). Rarely heard compositions of beauty and depth will be heard alongside
more familiar masterworks, all performed to the highest standards by the best
early music specialists, the credo of ABS since its founding in 1989. The
celebratory season will also feature the return of several ABS traditions that
audiences have come to love.
Music Director Jeffrey Thomas is particularly thrilled by
the repertoire selected for the American Bach Soloists’ landmark 25th Season.
“We have chosen works that show Bach at his most opulent and celebratory best.
Some splendid secular orchestral works and the truly charming ‘Hercules’
cantata are matched up with cantatas, masses, and motets that are grand and
glorious. Our audiences will enjoy superb soloists, the finest
period-instrument specialists, and our superlative American Bach Choir. And the
whole year of festivities will be crowned by our 2014 Festival that will
feature some of my own personal favorites composed by Bach and his
contemporaries. It’s going to be a sensational season!”
2013-14 opens in style with the annual ABS Gala at St.
Stephen’s Church in Belvedere, California, on September 21. This season’s
Silver Soirée will be a festive kick-off event with an extraordinary concert
program, fine wine and dining, and fundraising auction.
Following the greatest attendance marks in the history of
this beloved tradition, ABS’s annual performances of Handel’s Messiah in San Francisco’s awe-inspiring
Grace Cathedral return on December 11 & 12. A third performance of the
enduring masterpiece will be performed in the Mondavi Center for the Performing
Arts at UC Davis on December 15. ABS’s instantly sold-out 2012 Christmas
concert at St. Stephen’s Church was such a tremendous success that another
special program has been added to the schedule in the new season. On December
14, An ABS Christmas will feature holiday-themed works in the beautiful,
candlelit space where ABS was born in 1989.
The heart and soul of the 2014 subscription season are
three extraordinary concert programs featuring masterworks by ABS’s
namesake—Johann Sebastian Bach. In January, Maestro Thomas and ABS will present
an all-Bach program including Tönet, ihr
Pauken, BWV 214 (a cantata featuring music that eventually became part of
the “Christmas Oratorio”); Orchestral
Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067; the famous and always popular Magnificat, BWV 243; and Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130,
a fantastically extroverted cantata composed for the Feast of St. Michael and
All Angels. Three of the works call upon especially heraldic trumpet ensembles,
and the Orchestral Suite will feature
baroque flutist Sandra Miller, whose playing is noted for its “mellow, quietly
penetrating tone” and whose performances are described as “models of confidence
and unbroken steadiness” (The New York Times). For this program, the
audience will be invited to sing along on the final chorale of Cantata 130,
bringing back a hallmark of ABS’s cantata performances over the years.
In February, the Bach celebration continues with the
composer’s Missa Brevis in G Major,
BWV 236; Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C
Major, BWV 1066; and Laßt uns sorgen,
laßt uns wachen, BWV 213 (“Hercules at the Crossroads,” a cantata comprised
of arias and duets that were later utilized in Parts II, III, & IV of the
“Christmas Oratorio”).
The April concerts, titled Bach & His Legacies, will
feature motets and choral works by J.S. Bach, along with choral masterpieces by
Mendelssohn and Brahms, two composers who were profoundly influenced by the
Cantor of Leipzig and sought to emulate his style.
The ABS Festival & Academy—known as San Francisco’s
Summer Bach Festival—will bring the 25th Season celebrations to an exciting
close as ABS musicians and members of the 5th annual ABS Academy present the
2014 Festival, titled “Bach’s Inspiration.” Bach was greatly influenced by the
works of Vivaldi, Buxtehude, and members of his own highly esteemed family of
composers. As a young boy, he would seek out scores of compositions by others
and, simply through the act of making manuscript copies, he gleaned important
insights into the techniques utilized by their composers. Later in life, he
would transcribe concertos by the immensely successful Antonio Vivaldi,
arranging them for keyboard alone, and through this process he studied
Vivaldi’s methods of organizing a musical work into repeatable fragments of
melodic and harmonic material. That “architectural” device would become the
primary mechanism for Bach’s own language of musical rhetoric. He idolized the
Danish composer Dietrich Buxtehude, so much so that he traveled more than 250
miles on foot to hear concerts given by Buxtehude in the North German city of
Lübeck, extending a leave from his employer without permission for more than
two months. Bach also greatly revered the compositions of his own family
members who had already well established the family’s reputation as the most
important musical dynasty in Germany.
By performing a broad array of works by those who
influenced Bach the most—including concertos and vocal works by Vivaldi and
Pergolesi, cantatas and chamber music by Buxtehude, liturgical works by Bach’s
forebears, and even music by Frederick the Great, who inspired Bach’s Musical Offering—and presenting works by
Bach that clearly show their derivations from those musical stimuli, the
American Bach Soloists 2014 Festival & Academy will offer a unique position
of discovery of the contexts and magnificent results of Bach’s egoless veneration
of the artistic values of his world.
The 2014 Festival will open on Thursday, July 10, and
continue through Sunday, July 20. Works to be performed include Bach’s Concerto
for Three Harpsichords, Christ lag in
Todesbanden (Cantata 4), and one
of Bach’s earliest cantatas, Gott ist
mein König (Cantata 71), an
extravagant work scored for five “choruses” of instruments and voices.
Distinctive features of the ABS Summer Festival are the annual performances of
Bach’s towering Mass in B Minor and
more than a dozen free events.
--American Bach Soloists
Woodstock Mozart
Festival Announces 27th Season July 27-August 11: Bartók, Haydn, Mozart,
Stravinsky and More on Three Programs
The Woodstock Mozart Festival presents its 27th season
featuring three lively concert programs July 27–August 11, 2013 at the
Woodstock Opera House, 121 W Van Buren St., Woodstock IL. Single tickets go on
sale April 1.
The program lineup is as follows:
July 27 and 28: San Francisco Symphony Resident Conductor
Donato Cabrera and award-winning young pianist Vassily Primakov, touted by BBC Music Magazine as “a Mozartian to
the manner born, fit to stand as a role model to a new generation,” join for a
program including Bartók’s Rumanian
Dances; Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.
17, K. 453; Stravinsky’s Concerto in
E-flat Dumbarton Oaks; and Haydn’s Symphony
No. 85 La Reine.
August 3 and 4: The Festival’s principal cellist Nazar
Dzhuryn and French saxophonist Daniel Gauthier, a two-time Echo Klassique Award
(European Grammy) Winner, join conductor Igor Gruppman to perform Mozart’s Symphony No. 17, K. 129; Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob.
VIIb:1; Mascagni’s Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana; Ibert’s Concertino da Camera; Bizet’s Adagietto from L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1; Schulhoff’s Hot-Sonate; and Itturalde’s Pequeña
Czarda.
August 10 and 11: Violinist Igor Gruppman (who also
conducts) and violist Vesna Gruppman return by popular demand after their 2012
Festival participation, performing Mozart’s Divertimento
for Strings, K. 138 (125c); Haydn’s Symphony
No. 45 Farewell; and Mozart’s Sinfonia
Concertante K. 364 (320d) for violin and viola.
The 2013 Woodstock Mozart Festival takes place July
27–August 11, Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. at the Woodstock Opera
House, 121 Van Buren Street, Woodstock, Illinois. Pre-concert introductions
take place one hour before each of the performances. Tickets are $30–52, $25
for students, per program. Single tickets go on sale April 1 through the
Woodstock Opera House Box Office at 815-338-5300 or at woodstockoperahouse.com.
For more information about the Festival, visit mozartfest.org.
About the Woodstock Mozart Festival:
The Woodstock Mozart Festival’s first performances took
place in 1987 at the restored 1880s Woodstock Opera House in an environment
reminiscent of Mozart’s day. From the beginning, the Festival showcased
internationally recognized guest artists and conductors during its three
weekends of concerts in late July and early August. The Festival’s goal is to
maintain a superb orchestra that delivers extraordinary performances to inspire
and educate audiences of all ages through a chamber orchestral program of an
outstanding caliber, which is centered on Mozart. The Woodstock Mozart Festival
is a member of the League of American Orchestras and the Illinois Arts
Alliance. Funding is provided by the Illinois Arts Council, the Gaylord and
Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, the MacArthur Fund for Arts and Culture, the
AptarGroup Charitable Foundation and private and corporate contributions.
--Jill Chukerman, JAC Communications
National
Philharmonic Singers Present Free Spring Concert
The National Philharmonic Singers, under the direction of
conductors Stan Engebretson and Victoria Gau, will present a free spring
concert on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 8 pm at Christ Episcopal Church, 107
South Washington Street, Rockville, Maryland.
The concert will feature Benjamin Britten’s "Choral
Dances" from Gloriana, which was
composed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June of 1953 and was
performed at the Royal Opera House. The Singers will also perform the Coronation Anthem No. 1, "Zadok the
Priest," George Frideric Handel's great anthem. It was performed during
the coronation ceremony of King George II of Great Britain in 1727 and has been
sung at every coronation service since, including that of Queen Elizabeth II in
June of 1953.
Three modern settings of “Ubi Caritas” by Maurice Duruflé,
Ola Gjeilo, and Paul Mealor are also on the program. Music by Vaughan Williams
and contemporary arranger/jazz pianist Larry Farrow round out the program with
settings of English folksong and spirituals, including “Deep River” and “Every
Time I Feel the Spirit.”
The National Philharmonic Singers, led by Stan Engebretson
and Victoria Gau, is a chamber choir and one of several performing ensembles of
the National Philharmonic. The group promotes works suited for smaller
ensembles, whether with accompaniment or a cappella. Its repertoire ranges from
15th to 21st centuries, and it often premieres new compositions by local
composers.
The concert is free, but donations in support of the
Community Ministries of Rockville will be gratefully accepted. Christ Episcopal
Church is located at 107 South Washington Street in Rockville, MD. Directions
to the church may be found at christchurchrockville.org or by calling the
church at 301-762-2191, ext. 3. For more information, please visit
nationalphilharmonic.org or call
301-493-9283, ext. 116.
--Deborah Birnbaum, National Philharmonic
Music Institute of
Chicago Announces Auditions for the Academy
The Music Institute of Chicago announces auditions for the
Academy, an elite training program for gifted pre-college string players and
pianists seeking professional careers, for the 2013–14 academic year.
Who: Music Institute of Chicago
What: Auditions for the Academy
Days/Dates/Times/Locations: Thursday, April 25, 3–8 p.m.,
Thoresen Performance Center, 300 Green Bay Rd., Winnetka, Ilinois; and Sunday,
April 28, 12–4, Lake Forest Campus, 40 East Old Mill Road.
Information: musicinst.org/academy or 847.905.1500 ext.
122
--Jill Chukerman, JAC Communications
David H. Stull of
Oberlin Named President of San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Timothy W. Foo, chair of the Board of Trustees of the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music, announced today that David H. Stull has been
appointed president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He will assume
the position on July 1, 2013. David H. Stull is currently dean of the
Conservatory and professor of brass studies at Oberlin College, where he has
exhibited great vision with a passionate commitment to artistic excellence and
the creation of academic programs that prepare musicians for successful careers
in the ever-changing cultural and economic environment of the 21st century.
Stull comes to San Francisco with a demonstrated record of
decisive leadership skills, financial acumen and academic creativity, together
with a dedication to the highest artistic standards. At Oberlin, he helped
secure over $40 million in donations, including $21 million for The Kohl
Building, a project spearheaded to completion entirely under his leadership, an
additional $14 million for dedicated professorships, program support,
scholarships, gifts-in-kind, and pilot grants, while securing collections and
instrument donations that exceed $8 million in value. During his tenure, the
Conservatory launched a series of new programs, including an intensive
entrepreneurship curriculum, a new record label, and fully sponsored orchestral
tours to Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall and the People’s Republic of
China. He also secured the resources for a world class recording studio and a
series of artistic initiatives, including a Grammy-nominated recording. Most
recently he launched Music in America, a critically acclaimed program to
provide music education to underserved schools throughout the Nation.
In addition to providing rigorous professional training,
these added endeavors were created to furnish young artists with the
intellectual capacity, career management skills and professional experience
necessary to prepare them for thriving careers in the 21st century. In
recognition of the success of its comprehensive and cutting-edge academic
programming and contributions to American education, President Barack Obama
presented the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with the National Medal of Arts,
which Dean Stull accepted on behalf of the institution in February 2010.
David will move to San Francisco with his wife, Jessica
Downs, and their two daughters Madeline and Emily. To learn more about the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music and David H. Stull, please visit www.sfcm.edu.
--Katharine Boone, Kirshbaum Demler & Associates
Handel and Haydn
Society Perform The Four Seasons, Jephtha, and More, Friday, April 26 and
Saturday, April 27, at First Congregations Church, Berkeley, CA
The Handel and Haydn Society (H&H), America’s oldest
continuously performing arts organization, comes to Cal Performances for two
nights of early classical music. On Friday, April 26 at 8:00 p.m., the Society
performs a mixed bill of Baroque works, including Vivaldi’s ever-popular The Four Seasons. The following night,
at 7:00 p.m., the Society performs Handel’s 1751 oratorio Jephtha. H&H premiered this work in the US in 1867, and it has
not been performed since. With Berkeley as its first stop on its West Coast
tour, Cal Performances concertgoers will be the first audience to hear this
work performed in the U.S. in nearly 150 years.
The Handel and Haydn Society was founded in 1814 in Boston
by a group of merchants who wanted to improve the quality of music in the city.
Originally a chorus, the modern group features both an orchestra and choir that
play both Baroque and Classical period pieces. The iconic group has a history
of performing the American premieres of some of the most popular classical
works including Handel’s Messiah in
1818, a cornerstone in their annual repertoire, Verdi’s Requiem in 1878 and Bach’s Mass
in 1892. The ensemble has also commemorated some vital moments in history
including the end of the Civil War and the Chicago fire. The Handel and Haydn
Society has performed for many important dignitaries such as President James
Monroe, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, and Queen Elizabeth II.
The modern Handel and Haydn Society has strived to give
historically informed performances of vocal and instrumental authenticity by
using period instruments specific to the piece that is being played. The group
started touring internationally in 1996 and traveled to many esteemed venues such
as the Edinburgh Festival, The Proms, and the Haydn Festival in Austria.
H&H won its first Grammy Award in 2003 for their recording of Sir Jon
Tavener’s Lamentation and Praises
with the San Francisco choral ensemble Chanticleer. The ensemble’s current Music
Director, Harry Christopher, has been with the group since 2006 and will
continue until 2015. Handel and Haydn will celebrate its bicentennial next year
starting with their 161st performance of Handel’s Messiah in December 2014 and ending with Messiah in December 2015. The group has a subscription series in
their Symphony and Jordan Halls and reaches an annual audience of over 35,000,
the largest audience of such historically performed performance in North
America.
The Handel and Haydn Society is committed to musical
education and has provided outreach opportunities to children in eastern
Massachusetts. In 1994, the Vocal Apprenticeship Program (VAP) was started to
provide in-depth training for talented young vocalists whose family lack the
financial resources to pursue private instruction. They also organize
Collaborative Youth Concerts that bring singers from different high schools
together in performance alongside the Handel and Haydn Society musicians. The
Society also sponsors a financial award given to high school graduates of the
VAP program who intend to continue onto a professional musical career.
Ticket Information:
Tickets for the Handel and Hayden Society on April 26 at
8:00 p.m. and April 27 at 7:00 p.m. in First Congregational Church are priced
at $52.00 and are subject to change. Tickets are available through the Ticket
Office at Zellerbach Hall; at (510) 642-9988; at www.calperformances.org; and
at the door. Half-price tickets are available for UC Berkeley students. UC
faculty and staff, senior citizens, other students and UC Alumni Association
members receive a $5.00 discount (Special Events excluded). For select
performances, Cal Performances offers UCB student, faculty and staff, senior,
and community rush tickets. For more information about discounts, go to
http://calperformances.org/buy/discounts.php or call (510) 642-9988.
Sightlines: Pre-concert talks with the artists will occur
on April 26, 7-7:30. This event is free to ticket holders.
--Joe Yang, Cal Performances
PARMA Recordings
Announces the 2013 PARMA Student Composer Competition
PARMA Recordings is pleased to announce the 2013 PARMA
Student Composer Competition, the second in a series of annual competitions for
student composers.
Ten winners will be selected to have their work published
in the 2013 PARMA Anthology Of Music, and one Grand Prize Winner will be
selected to have their piece performed at the PARMA Music Festival (August
15-17, 2013 in Portsmouth NH). All
ensemble, rehearsal, and publicity costs will be completely subsidized by
PARMA, and the performance will be included in all promotional materials for
the Festival.
There is no fee for entry. The call for scores and full
submission details will be distributed on March 29th, and submissions will be
accepted from April 1st until April 30th. More information will be included in
the official Call For Scores and on the PARMA Web site.
Last year's competition produced an outstanding response,
with hundreds of students submitting works for consideration. The ten winners
are featured in the 2012 PARMA Anthology of Music, and Grand Prize Winner Quinn
Dizon's Awakening was recorded by Clayton Hoener, Peter Sulski, Ron Lowry, and
Hannah Shields in August 2012 and is featured on the upcoming album PERCEPTIONS
(Navona Records).
Competition Timeline:
March 29, 2013 - Call for scores distributed
April 1, 2013 - Submission period opens
April 30, 2013 - Submission period closes
May 1 - June 15, 2013 - Judging period
June 28, 2013 - Winners announced
Links:
Competition Landing Page:
www.parmarecordings.com/composercompetition
2012 PARMA Anthology of Music:
www.parmarecordings.com/anthologyofmusic
Quinn Dizon Recording Session:
http://tinyurl.com/dizonsession
PERCEPTIONS album page:
www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv5909
PARMA Music Festival: www.parmarecordings.com/festival
PARMA Music Festival:
The 2013 PARMA Music Festival will be held on August
15-17, 2013 in Portsmouth NH and features Grammy-winning clarinet virtuoso
Richard Stoltzman, marimba soloist Mika Stoltzman, the Portsmouth Symphony
Orchestra (PSO) and the PARMA Orchestra with conductor John Page, and many
more. The Festival will also serve as
the official host for the 2013 Region 1 Conference of the Society of Composers
Incorporated (SCI), one of the largest composer-service organizations in the
country.
Daytime and evening performances, listening parties, and
panels will be held at multiple venues in Portsmouth over the three days,
highlighted by a closing concert event at The Music Hall on Saturday, August 17
featuring the world premieres of "Elegy For Clarinet & Orchestra"
(1949) by Lukas Foss with Richard Stoltzman and the PSO, and
"Streams" (2010) by Martin Schlumpf with David Taylor, Matthias
Müller, and the PARMA Orchestra. Both
orchestras will be conducted by Mr. Page.
--Rory Cooper, PARMA Recordings
Alison Balsom and
the Scottish Ensemble to Embark on First Major U.S. Tour
The eleven-city tour includes concerts in New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles and more, April 5-20.
Beginning April 5th, trumpeter Alison Balsom and the
Scottish Ensemble will embark on an eleven-city tour of the U.S., including
stops in Los Angeles (April 7), Chicago (April 19) and New York City (April
20). The two-time Classical BRIT winner
and the acclaimed ensemble will perform varying sets of repertoire ranging from
the Italian Baroque (Vivaldi, Albinoni, and Gemianini – including works from
their Italian Concertos album), the
English Baroque (Purcell and Handel, in support of Balsom’s newest album Sound The Trumpet) the Romantic Era
(Mendelssohn’s violin concerto) and even a piece of Modern music (James
MacMillan’s Seraph concerto -
commissioned by the Scottish Ensemble and dedicated to Alison, and recorded on
her album of the same name)
Additional tour stops include: Santa Barbara, CA (April
5), La Jolla, CA (April 6), Kansas State University (April 9), Melbourne, FL
(April 12), Gainesville, FL (April 13), Austin, TX (April 16), Urbana, IL
(April 18), and Ann Arbor, MI (April 20).
The tour follows on the heels of Balsom’s Boston debut at the
Summer Arts Weekend in July 2012, and her Hollywood Bowl debut in August.
Alison is one of the few classical artists who has established a mainstream
presence around the world – she has performed on Late Night with David
Letterman and A Prairie Home Companion
in the U.S., and in her native Britain she played for nearly 200 million
viewers at the Last Night of the Proms and is a fixture of daytime TV and
newspapers. Alison has had numerous
successful collaborations with the Scottish Ensemble, and their Italian Concertos album was one of the
bestselling classical albums of 2010.
For further information: www.alisonbalsom.com and
www.emiclassicsus.com/artists/alison-balsom/
Tour dates and presenters:
April 5: UCSB Arts & Lectures Program – The Granada Theater
(Santa Barbara, CA)
April 6: La Jolla Music Society - Museum of Contemporary
Art San Diego (San Diego, CA)
April 7: Los Angeles Philharmonic - Walt Disney Concert
Hall (Los Angeles, CA)
April 9: Kansas State University - McCain Auditorium
(Manhattan, KS)
April 12: Melbourne Chamber Music Society - St. Mark's
United Methodist Church (Melbourne, FL)
April 13: University of Florida Gainesville - University
Auditorium (Gainesville, FL)
April 14: Peoples' Symphony Concerts - The Town Hall (New
York, NY)
April 16: Texas Performing Arts - Bass Concert Hall
(Austin, TX)
April 18: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts -
Foellinger Great Hall (Urbana, IL)
April 19: University of Chicago Presents - Logan Center
for the Arts (Chicago, IL)
April 20: University Musical Society - Hill Auditorium
(Ann Arbor, MI)
