Greetings!
In addition to offering music lessons and classes, we are excited to begin the year with diverse new listening opportunities: an afternoon of sitar music, a series of family music and magic shows, and a concert featuring the complete solo violin sonatas and partitas of JS Bach. Please join us for all this and more! (See the complete concert season below.)
Musically yours, Kathy Judd Executive & Artistic Director |
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 Alif Laila, sitar
with Janab Monir Hossain, tabla
Sunday, January 30, 2011 - 3:00 PM
Glen Echo Park
Washington Conservatory of Music
South Arcade - 7300 MacArthur Blvd.
 Alif Laila's solo sitar performances have included the Smithsonian Institution, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Virginia Museum of Arts, Penn State University, the National Musem of Bangladesh, and the Kerala Fine Arts Society (in India). Ms. Laila has performed throughout the US, and recorded with leading tabla virtuosi Anindo Chatterjee and Taari Khan. Laila has released six CDs and two DVDs, one of which - Hridayaragam - was featured in Women's History Month 2008.
Alif Laila on RTV in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Tabla performer Janab Monir Hossain has appeared in venues throughout the US and Canada with well known Hindustani classical and contemporary musicians. |
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New Series of Family Music and Magic Shows:
The Magic of Music
featuring
Musico the Magnificent
(cellist Drew Owen)
and musical guests
Three shows:
The Vanishing Viola
The Triumphant Trumpet
Potions for Piano
Opening Show on
Sat. Feb. 5, 3 PM:
The Vanishing Viola
For the Next 8 Show Dates:
www.mycommunitytickets.com
Location:
Washington Conservatory of Music at Glen Echo Park - 7300 MacArthur Blvd.
Tickets:
$10 all ages. Order: www.mycommunitytickets.com until 2:00 PM on the day of the show. Box office on the day of the show: 301-634-2250. |
coming up next:
 James Stern, violin
The Complete Solo Sonatas & Partitas
of JS Bach
Saturday, February 26 at 7:30 PM Washington Conservatory
at Westmoreland WCC ChurchFree | No tickets required |
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2010-11 Washington Conservatory Concerts & Master Classes
at Westmoreland Circle
and Glen Echo Park
 Sunday, October 24, 20103:00 PM at Westmoreland CircleJos� Ramos-Santana, pianoMusic of Alb�niz & Chopin
 Tuesday, November 9, 20107:00 PM at Westmoreland CircleEmanuel Ax, pianoMaster Class * co-sponsored by WPAS  Saturday, November 20, 20107:30 PM at Westmoreland CircleWashington Conservatory FacultyA Celebration of Music
 Saturday, December 4, 20108:00 PM at Westmoreland CircleMichael Adcock, pianoA Keyboard Potpourri - Short & Excerpted Piano Masterworks
 Saturday, January 8, 20118:00 PM at Westmoreland CircleAlexander Paley, piano An Evening of Franz Liszt  Sunday, January 30, 20113:00 PM at Glen Echo ParkAlif Laila, sitarWonderful World Music - Sitar and Tabla Saturday, February 26, 2011
7:30 PM at Westmoreland Circle
James Stern, violin
The Complete Solo Sonatas & Partitas
of JS Bach  Sunday, March 27, 2011
3:00 PM at Westmoreland Circle
Christopher Sala, cornet &
Jeffery Watson, piano
The Golden Age of Cornet
 Friday, April 8, 2011
6:00 PM at Westmoreland Circle
Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Master Class
* co-sponsored by WPAS
 Sunday, April 10, 20113:00 PM at Westmoreland CircleAlexej Gorlatch, pianoLeeds Competition prize winner* co-sponsored by the Washington
Group Cultural Fund
 Sunday, May 1, 20113:00 PM at Glen Echo ParkDrew Owen, celloJeffery Watson, piano
Cello Strings 'Round the May Pole
 Saturday, May 7, 20118:00 PMHaskell Small, pianoMe & Them - Small, Bach, Hovhaness, & Ives
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The Washington Conservatory of Music is a nationally accredited community music school that serves the greater metropolitan DC and Bethesda, MD area from two locations: Westmoreland Circle (at the border of the District and Maryland) and at Glen Echo Park.At WCM, students of all ages and ability levels study without audition under the guidance of the Conservatory's exceptional international artist faculty. The teaching and rehearsal spaces at the Conservatory include 7 virtual acoustic sound isolation recording rooms.For more information, please call us at (301) 320-2770 or visit the Conservatory web site.
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