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Concert Information:
For publicity information please contact
Barbara Adams at
BBadams323@verizon.net or call (845) 564-3499.
Concert Ticket Prices:
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Adult |
$20.00 |
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Student |
$ 5.00 |
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venues please call Jessica Gerson at (845) 562-1861 (e-mail
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Click on the following links to view reviews
of past performances:
November
2006
Cypress String Quartet
April 2007
Karen Lubeck, soprano
HVP String Quartet
February
2008
Harlem String Quartet
May
2008
Innisfree
(Mother's Day Concert)
November 2008
"Music Alive!!" Bard Ensembles
(Joan Tower)
May 2009
Elmar Oliveira, violin
October
2009
Celebrating Music from
Alsdorf to Joplin
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2011-2012 Concert Season
All concerts at
St. George's Church, 105 Grand Street, Newburgh, New York
- Sunday, November 13, 2011
3:00 p.m.
Ensō String
Quartet
Music of Haydn, Bartók and
Dvořák

Maureen Nelson, violin; John Marcus, violin; Melissa Reardon, viola;
Richard Belcher, cello
With a 2010 Grammy nomination for “Best Chamber Music Performance,” the
Ensō Quartet has quickly become one of the country’s most exciting young
ensembles. Shortly after the group’s inception at Yale University in
1999, Ensō had success at the Banff International String Quartet
Competition and won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition,
and has consistently received high praise for performances ever since.
The quartet’s debut recording was described by Strad Magazine as “an
auspicious start to their recording career,” and was followed by the
recent Grammy-nominated release of the quartets of Ginastera. MusicWeb
International summed up this album as “playing of jaw-dropping prowess
revealing masterpieces of the 20th century quartet literature … seek out
this group – they are clearly bound for greatness.” The disc was
selected as one of MusicWeb’s Recordings of the Year for 2009. The group is equally at home in many
styles, and is committed to the classics of the string quartet
repertoire as well as being strong advocates for new music. In 2009 they
were the recipients of a Chamber Music America Commissioning Grant with
composer Kurt Stallmann, and two CD recordings were released on the
Albany Records label that feature the quartet in world premiere
recordings of music by Karim Al Zand and Anthony Brandt.
For more information,
click
here to visit their website.
To see the press release,
click here.
- Sunday, March 25, 2012
3:00 p.m.
Gypsy and Jazz-Inspired Music: Innisfree +
Chamber
music inspired by gypsy folk music and American jazz. Jazz pianist
Vincent Martucci will join Carole Cowan in jazz classics by George
Gershwin and Jerome Kern.

Carole Cowan, violin; Susan Seligman, cello; Sylvia
Buccelli, piano with Vincent Martucci, jazz piano
The euphonious name
Innisfree was chosen for its
inspiring literary origin; it also has a regional association with the
lovely landscaped park in Millbrook, New York. The sentiment expressed
in Yeats' poem "Lake Isle of Innisfree" evokes the peace and
centeredness that the Trio strives to convey in its performances.
The Trio is comprised of Carole Cowan, violin;
Susan Seligman, cello; and Sylvia Buccelli, piano - three of the premier
musicians of the Hudson Valley. All three are highly-acclaimed chamber
players familiar to audiences throughout the region. Carole Cowan has
been concertmaster of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic since 1978 and is
first violinist of the HVP String Quartet. She has performed throughout
the U.S. in numerous string quartets, ensembles and orchestras. Susan
Seligman, principal cellist with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, has
performed at international music festivals in Brazil, France, Italy and
Switzerland, and teaches locally at SUNY-New Paltz and Vassar College.
Pianist Sylvia Buccelli is a founding member of the Franconia Trio and
Abbot Chamber Players. She has performed at Weil Recital Hall in New
York City and extensively throughout New England. Together, the trio has
performed concerts throughout the northeast since 1994.
- Sunday, May 13, 2011
3:00 p.m.
Annual Mother's Day Concert
Joël
Evans
and the Newburgh Chamber Music Ensemble
Featuring works for oboe and strings by Telemann, Mozart,
Britten and Arnold
HVP String Ensemble Members: Carole Cowan, violin; Susan
Seligman, cello; Valentina Charlap-Evans, viola

Joël Evans, oboist and solo English hornist
with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, has been a familiar musical voice
in the Hudson Valley for many years. He is oboist with Poné
Ensemble and plays baroque and classical oboes with La Grande Ecurie,
the resident historic ensemble at SUNY-New Paltz, where he also serves
as director the Symphonic Band and Collegium Musicum. He is assistant
professor of oboe and music history at New Paltz.
Dr. Evans has
performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Atlantic Chamber
Orchesra, and was principal oboist of the Albany Symphony from 1982 to
1985. He leads a busy teaching schedule and has played numerous TV and
radio advertisements. He has recorded for Philo, Rounder, Koch
International, CRI, and New World, and his playing has been heard
throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Far East. He has appeared as
a featured soloist at Lincoln Center, Tanglewood, Saratoga, the Charles
Ives Center, and Carnegie Hall. Dr. Evans retired as principal oboist of
the U.S. Military Academy Band at West Point after nearly thirty years
of service.
His commercial work has included playing with such notables as James
Taylor, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Luciano Pavarotti, Mstislav
Rostropovich, Nancy Wilson, The Moody Blues, Blood, Sweat and Tears,
Peter, Paul and Mary, Roy Clark, Roberta Flack, as well as regular
performances in the Broadway productions of Camelot, Cabaret, Miss
Saigon and Les Miserables.
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