Tickets for the 7th annual American Bach Soloists Festival & Academy—San Francisco's Summer Bach Festival—are now on sale. The 2016 Festival will include performances at St. Mark's Lutheran Church and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA, from August 5-14, 2016. Titled "An Italian Journey," many of the concerts and lectures during the two-week event will explore the music and culture of Baroque Italy, a primary destination for eighteenth-century Europeans on The Grand Tour. Along with surveys of sacred and secular works from many of the finest composers who worked in Florence, Venice, and Rome during the era, the ABS Festival & Academy will present the North American premiere performances of Handel's 1734 Serenata, Parnasso in festa, and also Bach's monumental Mass in B Minor.Opening Night: Carmelite Vespers & Vivaldi's Gloria - August 5
ABS Music Director Jeffrey Thomas conducts the period-instrument experts of ABS and the American Bach Choir in large-scale sacred works from Baroque Italy. By command of the Church, opera was forbidden when George Frideric Handel arrived in Rome in 1707. Undeterred, the young visitor from Hamburg composed elaborate and highly dramatic works for Roman Carmelite Vespers services including his tour-de-force Dixit Dominus for chorus, orchestra, and vocal soloists, and several motets including Saeviat tellus inter rigores, a setting for virtuoso soprano. Meanwhile, in Venice, Vivaldi was establishing his own lofty standards for church music at the Ospedale della Pietà. Writing for an ensemble of young female virtuoso instrumentalists and singers, his Salve Regina and Gloria are models of the Italian style with a balance of poignant expression and fiery virtuosity. Among the featured soloists are Mary Wilson (soprano), Judith Malafronte (alto), Kyle Stegall (tenor), and John Thiessen (trumpet).
For a full listing of events and ticket information, visit http://americanbach.org/sfbachfestival/index.html
--Jeff McMillan, American Bach Soloists
April and May Concerts at 92nd St. Y
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 7:30 PM
92Y - Kaufmann Concert Hall, NYC
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7:30 PM
92Y - Kaufmann Concert Hall, NYC
Jennifer Koh, violin
Shai Wosner, piano
Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 8 PM
92Y - Kaufmann Concert Hall, NYC
Yamandu Costa, seven-stringed guitar
Monday, April 11, 2016 at 8:30PM
92Y - Buttenwieser Hall, NYC
Daedalus String Quartet, with members of SPEAKMusic
Monday, April 18, 2016 at 8:30 PM
92Y – Buttenwieser Hall, NYC
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 7:30PM
92Y – Kaufmann Concert Hall, NYC
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Monday, May 2, 2016 at 8:30 PM
92Y – Buttenwieser Hall
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula, piano (US Debut)
Monday, May 23, 2016 at 8:30 PM
92Y – Buttenwieser Hall, NYC
JACK Quartet
For more information, visit www.92Y.org
--Hannah Goldshlack-Wolf, Kirshbaum Associates
American Pianists Association Announces Finalists for 2017 American Pianists Awards
American Pianists Association (APA) announces the five pianists who are finalists for the American Pianists Awards - Alex Beyer, Sam Hong, Steven Lin, Kate Liu, and Drew Petersen will compete for the prestigious award which is given every four years to an American classical pianist at the conclusion of the APA's unique 13-month-long competition process.
Valued at more than $100,000, the American Pianists Awards winner receives the Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship which includes a $50,000 cash award and career assistance for two years, to include publicity, public performances, a recording contract and other opportunities worldwide.
Through American Pianists Awards Premiere Series, which runs throughout the season, the five pianists are invited to Indianapolis for outreach and community events as well as an adjudicated solo recital and concerto performance with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. Then, during the Awards' Discovery Week (4/3-4/8), all five finalists arrive in Indianapolis for a week of adjudicated events. Performances include solo recitals, outreach concerts, and chamber concerts, premier of a commissioned work, as well as a concerto performance with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Schwarz. At the conclusion of these and other activities, a distinguished panel of international judges will award the Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship to the winner of the competition.
"There are many prestigious piano competitions throughout the world, but ours is unique," says APA's President/CEO and Artistic Director Joel Harrison. "Because we have a multi-step process that occurs over a 13-month period, we get to see and hear each finalist in a variety of settings, both in the concert hall and out in the community. They gain an unparalleled opportunity to grow professionally, and we gain a unique chance to watch each evolve as artists and to gain enhanced artistic stature, at an important time in their professional development. It's perhaps the most rewarding part of our work to see these already accomplished artists take their talent to the next level, and to bring that talent to not only Indianapolis, but to the world. And it is through this process that all of the finalists – not just the winner – can grow."
For more information, visit http://www.americanpianists.org/
--Amanda Sweet, BuckleSweet Media
Spring @ The Wallis
Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner: "Bridge to Beethoven: Finding Identity Through Music"
Sat, March 26, wine and conversation with Shai Wosner and composer Andrew Norman at 7pm; performance at 8pm.
Colburn @ The Wallis
Colburn Chamber Music Society with the Principal Brass of the New York Philharmonic
Sun, April 10, wine and conversation with Mark Lawrence, Colburn Chamber Music Society faculty brass chair, and conductor, with Alan Baer and Joseph Alessi from the Principal Brass, at 2pm; performance at 3pm.
The Jerusalem Quartet
Thurs, April 14, wine and conversation with cellist Kyril Zlotnikov at 7pm, performance at 8pm.
Ezralow Dance Company: OPEN
Fri, April 29 and Sat, April 30, wine and conversation with Daniel Ezralow and arts journalist Victoria Looseleaf at 7pm; performance at 8pm.
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Bram Goldsmith Theater
9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210
Ticket prices: $25 – $99 (prices subject to change).
By phone at 310.746.4000. On-line at TheWallis.org. Or at the box office.
For more information, visit TheWallis.org
--Sarah Jarvis, The Wallis
Two NEC Students Awarded Prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grants
Two New England Conservatory students, pianist George Li and violinist Alexi Kenney, are being awarded Avery Fisher Career Grants today. The awards are being announced at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WQXR in New York City. Joseph W. Polisi, Chairman of the Avery Fisher Artist Program will make the announcement. He will be joined by members of the Fisher family, specifically two of Avery Fisher's three children, Charles Avery Fisher and Nancy Fisher, and Avery Fisher's grandson, Philip Avery Kirschner.
Each recipient will receive a $25,000 grant, which provides professional support and acknowledgment for their solo careers. The grants are given to exceptionally talented instrumentalists and up to five Career Grants may be given each year. Since the program's origin in 1976, 141 winners have been chosen, including this year's awards.
For more information about New England Conservatory: http://necmusic.edu/
For more information about the Avery Fisher Career Grants: http://www.aboutlincolncenter.org/programs/program-avery-fisher-artist-program/the-avery-fisher-career-grants
--Lisa Helfer Elghazi
University of Washington's UW World Series to Launch New Identity as Meany Center
The University of Washington announced today that the UW World Series, one of Seattle's leading performing arts presenters, will begin the 2016-17 Season under a new name and identity: Meany Center for the Performing Arts. The change reflects an expanded, more dynamic role as a world-class center for performance, public engagement, learning and creative research in the arts.
"The University of Washington World Series has been bringing extraordinary artists from around the globe to Seattle for over 37 years, and that commitment continues," says Michelle Witt, executive and artistic director of Meany Center. "But our program has grown to become something much more: a dynamic, creative hub with a broader mission to connect diverse audiences, students and faculty with visionary artists and ideas, nurture a culture of shared discovery and inspire our local, national and international communities. We do this by collaborating with artists who demonstrate the most original, innovative, courageously realized examples of human creativity and expression."
Located on the UW Seattle campus, Meany Center is uniquely positioned to leverage the vast intellectual and creative resources of the University of Washington to support learning and advance excellence and innovation in the performing arts. The Center will facilitate scholarly and artistic partnerships, support creative research, deepen audiences' access to and understanding of artists and art forms, rethink the context of performance spaces and explore contemporary ideas through the lens of the performing arts.
For more information, visit https://uwworldseries.org/
--Katharine Boone, Kirshbaum Associates
Emerson Quartet Gives Three-Concert Series with Lincoln Center's Great Performers
This spring, the world-renowned Emerson String Quartet performs a three-part series of late Haydn and early Beethoven string quartets entitled "Passing the Torch," presented by Lincoln Center's Great Performers.
The Emerson's three programs alternate between works by Haydn and Beethoven, two masters of the string quartet. Haydn's Op. 76 Quartets are ambitious chamber works containing some of his boldest and brightest musical writing, the brilliant result of a lifetime spent developing the form. Beethoven's Op. 18 Quartets exhibit mastery of the Classical legacy he inherited from Haydn, which Beethoven pushed to a new threshold while incorporating motifs of tension, humor, and grace. Last fall, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette praised the Emerson's performance of Haydn's Quartet Op. 76, No. 4 ("Sunrise"): "The group's unanimity and high technical accomplishment was immediately evident… The Adagio movement, equally exposed, conveyed an eloquent simplicity. The folk-like character of the Minuet and Finale that followed was meshed with classical elegance and restraint."
Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7:30 PM
Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall
Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 5 PM
Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall
Friday, May 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM
Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall
For more information, visit http://lcgreatperformers.org/seasons/2015-16/emerson-string-quartet-apr-07
--Hanna Goldshlack-Wolf, Kirshbaum Associates
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