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Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. Though both men were only in their 20’s when they wrote these pieces, the works display an incredible passion and power that showcase their amazing talents even at very early ages. Beethoven’s Opus 1, no. 3 trio in C Minor was a revolutionary work that shocked his teacher, Haydn, and helped propel young Ludwig into the forefront of Viennese society. Ultimately, Beethoven would help lead music into the new Romantic age, with its greater emphasis on individual emotions and greater contrasts in mood and sound to mirror the changing forces in society after the French Revolution. Sixty years later, young Brahms would burst on the musical scene, a “chosen one” as Schumann described him, “over whose cradle graces and heroes stood guard.” Brahms would take up Beethoven’s legacy and produce his incredible B Major Trio, Op. 8 at the age of 21, filled with some of the most beautiful melodies in the entire repertoire and a profound dramatic sense that reveal his Romantic genius. Together, these pieces highlight youthful passion, vigor, and intensity and the supremely creative drive of two amazing composers.
Join us for this fantastic program of piano trios by Czech composers. We will perform the very powerful Trio by Bedrich Smetana, composed soon after two of his young daughters died, which is filled with grief but also lyrical remembrances. We will also perform one of the greatest of all Piano Trios, the “Dumky” Piano Trio by Antonin Dvorak, based on several “Dumka” or folk tunes from the region. This is music that dances and moves the sprit. Two fantastic musicians who teach at the Peabody Prep department, violinist Andréa Picard Boecker and cellist Alicia Ward, will join me. You will not want to miss this program!
We celebrate Mother’s Day with another concert of wonderful works by women composers. We have discovered some real treasures in years past that have unfortunately not been included in the regular chamber music repertoire. For this program, we will highlight Hélène Liebmann, Cécile Chaminade, Mélanie Bonis and Luisa Le Beau. All struggled to get their voices heard in their lifetimes and have been unfairly neglected after their deaths. The siblings, Emmanuel (violin), and Frances (cello) will join me for this very lyrical and passionate program. Hope you can join us!!
Join us for another thrilling crossover program exploring the connections between classical and jazz music through the works of Claude Bolling. This program features his amazing Suite for Violin and Jazz Trio that was originally written for Pinchas Zukerman. My great friend and colleague, Tim Schwarz, will come from Philadelphia as our guest violinist and team up with the wonderful combo of Eric Seay on bass, and Oni Lara on percussion. We will also perform a wonderful violin arrangement of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” currently celebrating its 100th birthday.
Check out the “Ragtime” movement from the fun Bolling Suite:
Join us for another special program to help celebrate Black History Month. This concert highlights the important influence of African-American Spirituals in classical chamber music. We will perform works by Harry Burleigh and Clarence Cameron White, who were both excellent violinists and among the first to arrange Spirituals for string instruments. Both men studied at the National Conservatory of Music, our first American Conservatory, which was directed by Antonin Dvorak. The great Czech composer used these soulful tunes in his “New World Symphony” and also in a Violin Sonata that we will perform. We will also perform fantastic works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and Margaret Bonds. This is music filled with the pain and anguish of an oppressed people, but also powerful melodies, inspirational themes, and an exciting rhythmic drive. The wonderful Borowsky siblings—Emmanuel on violin and Frances on cello—are back to perform these sadly neglected, but very soulful works of music.
To get a flavor for this powerful and expressive music, please watch the beginning of this incredibly soulful arrangement of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by clicking on the link below:
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJYv6KjSDni8IWmxkkvm55aIBj2y3w86G?si=YmWaA8l44dUxi8iz
Join us for a very fun concert featuring trios for oboe, bassoon, and piano. This unique combination of instruments is not often heard, but is truly special to listen to, especially in our intimate settings. Those wonderful reed instruments are so plaintive and expressive while also allowing for humor and great energy. On this program, we welcome back oboist Margaret Herlehy and bassoonist Janet Polk, two good friends of mine from New Hampshire. We will be performing works by Ludwig Milde, Ludwig van Beethoven, Geoffrey Bush, Madeleine Dring, and Paul Carr. In fact, I could have entitled this program “Ludwigs and the Brits!” Hope you can join us for this really cool program!
Enjoy a performance of the Paul Carr Divertimento we recently did in New Hampshire:
Join us for a very special concert featuring four singers and two pianists in this wonderful connection of Words and Music, which also happens to be the name of a vocal group based in the DC/Baltimore area dedicated to performing music for small vocal ensembles. This program features works for that ensemble, comprised of soprano Melissa Coombs, mezzo-soprano Kyle Engler, tenor Tae Min Cha, and baritone William Heim, and four-hand piano, comprised of pianists Daniel Lau and Daniel Weiser. They will perform the beautiful and melodic Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms as well as three fun tributes to these beloved pieces by John Greer, John Corigliano, and PDQ Bach. Enjoy a very special program of exciting vocal chamber music.
Join us for a thrilling four-hand program featuring the powerful F Minor Fantasy by Schubert, a fun Fantasy on themes from “Carmen”, Liszt’s virtuosic Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2, and an amazing arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pianist Lura Johnson from the Baltimore Symphony makes her AmiciMusic debut performing with Daniel Weiser in this exciting ballet of twenty fingers on a single piano. You won’t want to miss this “fantastic” and most “rhapsodic” concert!
This thrilling program highlights powerful early piano trios by two of our greatest composers—Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms. T