Strad for Lunch Series – Monday, October 5

Stradivarius on display Madrid’s Palacio Real

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall will offer a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, October 5th, 2009 @ 12:30PM:
Violinist Bela Horvath and Violist Molly Carr

Violinist Bela Horvath and Violist Molly Carr will perform a program with works by Handel, Brahms, Sarasate, Kreisler, Vieuxtemps and Bruch.

Bela Horvath was born in Hungary. At age of 3 and half, he began to study the violin with his grandfather and continued his violin studies with a famous Hungarian violin teacher, Valeria Baranyai. In 1996, Bela entered the Bela Bartok Conservatory, where he studied with Istvan Kertesz, the first violinist of the Festetics String Quartet.

In 1998, Bela won the National Janos Koncz violin competition in Hungary. The following year, he entered the 9th International Carl Flesch Violin Competition. As the youngest contestant, he was the fourth prize winner of that year and also won a special prize for the best interpretation of a new work written for the competition by Hungarian composer, Miklos Csemicky.

In 2000, Mr. Horvath entered the Franz Liszt University of Music, where he began his studies with Hungarian concert violinist, Miklos Szenthelyi. In 2002, the renowned violinist, violist, and conductor, Pinchas Zukerman invited Mr.Horvath to study with him and his associate, Patinka Kopec, at the Manhattan School of Music.

Bela Horvath has worked with leading violinists and pedagogues including Zakhar Bron, Jaime Laredo, Gyorgy Pauk, Ruggiero Ricci, Aaron Rosand, and Joseph Silverstein. Mr. Horvath has also played a great deal of chamber music and has been coached by chamber musicians and teachers like Daniel Avshalomov, Steven Dann, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, Timothy Eddy, Joseph Kalichstein, Robert Mann, Sylvia Rosenberg, David Soyer, and Michael Tree.
Bela Horvath made his debut recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in 2003. The debut of his Piano Quartet, Amity Players, was at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in October 2006. They have recently released a recording of two piano quartets by J. Brahms for the Canadian label, Marquis Music. As a soloist and recitalist, he has played many concerts around the world, including the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, France, England, Slovakia, Hungary, the United States and Canada.
In February, 2008, he performed with Pinchas Zukerman at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. Mr. Horvath played in Carnegie Hall`s Isaac Stern auditorium as a soloist in June 2008.

Mr. Horvath completed his Bachelors and his Master`s of Music degree at the Manhattan School of Music. He is a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music’s Pre-college.

Mr. Horvath is playing on a Januarius Gagliano violin from 1785.

Violist Molly Carr, praised for her “ravishing sound” (the STRAD) and passionate “talent and beautiful poise… all in one package” (AVS Online), was a top Prize Winner in the 2008 Primrose International Viola Competition. Other honors garnered in her twenty-two years include First Prize in ASTA’s National Solo Competition, top honors in the NFAA’s prestigious Arts Recognition and Talent Search Program, and scholarships from the Virtu Foundation, the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, the Manhattan School of Music and The Julliard School.

As a recitalist, Molly recently performed at Weill Hall and the Neue Galerie in New York City, and on the Young Musician’s Forum series in New York’s Hudson Valley. She has performed on NPR’s From The Top and been a soloist with the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, the Reno Chamber Orchestra and the Carson City Symphony.

Miss Carr is also an avid chamber musician and has collaborated with the renowned artists Itzhak Perlman, Carter Brey, Peter Wylie, Pamela Frank, Ida Kavafian, Roger Tapping, Ron Leonard, Paul Katz, and the American String Quartet. She has attended the International Musicians Seminar and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove (Cornwall, UK), Oberstdorfer Musiksommer, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, NAC (Canada) Young Artists’ Program, and the Perlman Music Program.

A native of Reno, Nevada, Molly is a student of Heidi Castleman and Steve Tenenbom at The Juilliard School. Her former teachers include Pinchas Zukerman, Patinka Kopec, and Virginia Blakeman Lenz.

Miss Carr’s instrument was provided by a scholarship grant from the VIRTU Foundation.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall. More Details and Source: WMP Concert Hall

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Strad for Lunch Series – Monday, September 21

Antonio Stradivari by Edgar Bundy 1893

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall will offer a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The musicians play on an Antonio Stradivari violin. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, September 21st, 2009 @ 12:30PM:
Violinist Gabriela Rengel will perform with guitarist Sylwia Kloc works by Bach, Prokoviev, Paganini and Piazzolla.

Violinist Gabriela Rengel began her musical studies at the Federico Villena Music School in her native Venezuela. As a young violinist she became principal second violinist of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Aragua, one of the satellite orchestras of “El Sistema”. In Venezuela, she had the opportunity to participate in master classes with Joseph Silverstein, Margaret Pardee, Ronny Rogoff, and the Bachakademie Stuttgart. As a young solo artist, she has performed with the Queens Philharmonia, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Aragua, and the Queens College Symphony. She has also performed extensively as a chamber musician, working with such artists as Daniel Phillips and David Jolley. Ms. Rengel has participated in many summer festivals and concert series, including the Killington and Norfolk music festivals, the Sommerakademie Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and the Crested Butte Music Festival. Ms. Rengel received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in violin performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music. She has been a member of the Albany Symphony Orchestra since 2005, and has also recently performed a series of duo recitals with pianist Ejona Gjermeni. In 2008 Ms. Rengel joined the Madison String Quartet.

Sylwia Kloc is a classical guitarist from Poland. She is an active soloist, chamber player, and teacher. Ms. Kloc received her Bachelor and Master Degrees from Mannes College, The New School for Music where she studied with Frederic Hand, and was awarded a merit scholarship for her excellence in performance. Ms. Kloc and violinist Elena Rojas form the ensemble Colloquio di Corde. She plays Renaissance lute and Baroque guitar, having worked with the renowned early music player and scholar Dennis Cinelli. In the Spring of 2007 Ms. Kloc premiered and recorded “Ancient Visions” a concerto for Renaissance lute and guitar ensemble by Terry Champlin.

She was a scholar recipient for the 2006 “Music in Compostela Festival” in Spain where she studied with Jose Luiz Rodrigo. Ms. Kloc is a faculty member of Montclair State University, New Jersey, and the Music Education Center, Brooklyn, NY. She also has her private teaching studio where she teaches talented young musicians. Sylwia lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Thomas, and their lovely cat, Maya. Ms. Kloc playes a Daryl Perry guitar, which was built for her in 2002.

Monday, October 5th, 2009 @ 12:30PM:
Violinist Bela Horvath and Violist Molly Carr

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall. More Details and Source: WMP Concert Hall

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Strad for Lunch Series – Monday, September 14

Antonio Stradivari by Edgar Bundy 1893

WMP’s Strad for Lunch series starts up again on Monday, September 14.

Every Monday at 12:30pm, they will offer a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The musicians play on an Antonio Stradivari violin. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:30PM:
The Sphinx competition’s laureate, violinist Mariana Green-Hill will perform Suite for violin and piano by William Grant Still and the Sonata #1 in G Major by Johannes Brahms. She will play with pianist Surry Lee.

Mariana Green-Hill is a Second Prize Winner of The Sphinx Competition. She has also won first place in the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Harry and Marion Dubbs Competitions. Mrs. Green-Hill has been a featured guest soloist with the New Jersey, Memphis, Detroit, and Boston Symphony Orchestras and The Boston Pops. In addition to her solo performances, she is an experienced chamber and orchestral musician. The Amaryllis String Quartet, of which she was a member, was awarded First Prize in the prestigious Fischoff Chamber Music Competition (Jr. Division). Mrs. Green-Hill has performed with YoYo Ma, Pamela Frank, Lynn Chang, Marcus Thomson, and with members of the Houston and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras. She was also a member of the Young Eight String Octet for six seasons. Mariana Green-Hill earned a Bachelor and Masters Degree from the Juilliard School and a Professional Studies Diploma from the Mannes College of Music under the respective tutelage of Dean Stephen Clapp, Ann Setzer and Ida Kavafian. She is a co-concertmaster of the Soulful Symphony which performs in collaboration with the Baltimore Symphony and is currently on the violin Faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music- Pr College Division and Project Step. Mariana Green-Hill is the first violinist of the Baldwin String Quartet. She also enjoys performing with various non-classical genres of music. She has recorded with world renown Grammy Award winning gospel artists Donnie McClurkin and Richard Smallwood and has also performed with the “Gorillaz”. She has also recorded with Joss Stone and Grammy award winning artist Alicia Keys.

Pianist Surry Lee first attracted attention in the United States as a winner at the Chautauqua International Piano Competition in 2002. She recently received the Helen Cohn Award at the Manhattan School of Music, which is given to an outstanding pianist in chamber music. Ms. Lee won honours at the Lillian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition and the Balsam Duo Competition in New York. She has appeared at chamber music concerts in the Weill Hall at Carnegie, at the Chautauqua Institution Guest Artist Recital, the New Triad Workshop, an Evening of 20th Century Work Chamber Concert in New York, the Carnegie Room Concert in Nyack, as well as in solo recitals in the Kulas Hall and the Pavilion Hall in Ohio. Most recently, she has performed chamber music concerts in the Lehmann Hall and Abravanel Hall in Santa Barbara, CA while attending the Music Academy of the West. The concert was sponsored and broadcast on KDB Radio 93.7FM. In Korea, Ms. Lee also won top and special prizes at the National Music Competition, the Korea Piano Duo Competition, and the Samik Piano Competition. Ms. Lee has had orchestral engagements with the Yonsei University Orchestra and the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra as a soloist in the Seoul Arts Center. After graduating from Yonsei University in South Korea, she came to the United States to study with Paul Shenly at the Cleveland Institute of Music for her Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance. She is doing her doctoral studies in Piano Accompanying with Heasook Rhee at the Manhattan School of Music after finishing her MM and Professional Studies in the same field. She played in master-classes held by Pinchas Zukerman, Robert Mann, Lambert Orkis, Jonathan Feldman, Anne Epperson, Yong Hee Moon, Julian Martin, Joseph Seiger, Sylvia Rosenberg, Elmar Oliveira and Leonidas Kavakos. Since 2008 she has been invited as a staff collaborative pianist to Bowdoin Music Festival. In demand as a collaborative pianist, she has been playing for such studios as Kyungwha Chung, Pinchas Zukerman, Patinka Kopec, Lucie Robert, and Marion Feldman and also working with Michelle Kim, Assistant Concertmaster in NY philharmonic.

Monday, September 21st, 2009 @ 12:30PM:
Violinist Gabriela Rengel will perform with guitarist Sylwia Kloc works by Bach, Prokoviev, Paganini and Piazzolla.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall. More Details and Source: WMP Concert Hall

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