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Dec. 2: NYC
Alessio Bax
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Adams, Jalbert
Dec. 3: San Francisco, CA
Jessica Rivera
San Francisco Symphony
Adams: El Ni�o
Dec. 4: Vancouver, ON
Julian Kuerti
Vancouver Symphony
Stravinsky, Mozart, Schumann+
Dec. 4-12: Prairie Debut Tour II Alessio Bax Manitoba, Saskatchewan With Lucille Chung
Dec. 8: NYC Joshua Roman Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York
Schumann: Piano Quartet, Op. 47 Dec. 13: Philadelphia, PA
Inon Barnatan
Philadelphia Chamber Society
with Alisa Weilerstein
Dec. 26-30: Utrecht, Netherlands
Inon Barnatan
International Chamber Festival Jan. 10: NYC
Joshua Roman
Weill Recital Hall APAP Young Performers Career Advancement Program Showcase
Jan. 14-16: Houston, TX Inon Barnatan
Houston Symphony Orch. Mozart: Cto. 17
About 21C Artists To Watch
| 21C Artists To Watch is an image- and awareness-building program for artists on the brink of major careers in classical music. Each month, 21C Media Group publishes an e-newsletter profiling several members of this select group and highlighting their recent and upcoming activities.
Read past newsletters here.
For inquires regarding
21C Artists To Watch, please contact:
Wende Persons,
Artists To Watch
Program Director
Phone (917) 691-1282; click here to e-mail
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Joshua Roman: from TEDx to APAP
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Cellist Joshua Roman joined an elite group of leaders and thinkers this fall as a performer at the TEDx/Rainier conference, dubbed by the Seattle Times as a showcase of "thirty of this region's biggest brains and most compassionate hearts." Read his Ted Talk about the power of classical music to transcend cultural barriers.
In other conference news, Roman was selected to participate in the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' 2011 Young Performers Career Advancement Program (YPCA). APAP conference attendees can catch his performance during the APAP/NYC 2011 showcase at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on January 10.
"A frequent collaborator with active composers and boundary-pushing artists, Roman's enthusiasm for musical evolution is as contagious as his love for the classics," says the Seattle Times. Recently the young cellist has spread that enthusiasm as orchestral soloist and recitalist in Ontario, Washington, Illinois, Oklahoma , on Chicago's Ch. 9 TV News, and at DOC NYC, performing George Crumb's Sonata for solo cello for a rapt audience of documentary film aficionados.
For more information, visit JoshuaRoman.com, his YouTube channel, or the Opus 3 Artists web site.
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James Valenti to make Paris Opera debut
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To kick off the New Year, James Valenti heads to Paris for his debut at the Bastille Opera House in Madama Butterfly (Jan. 16 - Feb. 14). Lt. Pinkerton has become one of the tenor's signature roles. Of his portrayal at New York City Opera in an Emmy Award-winning 2008 broadcast, Opera magazine declared, "James Valenti is an ideal Pinkerton." The New York Sun concurred, "He sings the role like a dream."
Last month Valenti was a celebrity guest artist at the annual fundraiser for the music education foundation Ten O'Clock Classics, along with former Yankees star Bernie Williams (pictured at left with Valenti), who performed on guitar. Stargazers spotted Valenti onstage a few days later with opera's top luminaries at the Richard Tucker Gala at Lincoln Center. The New Jersey-born tenor was this year's honoree. Read this Star-Ledger feature about his fast-rising career.
"The 2010 [Richard Tucker Award] winner is the American tenor James Valenti, who made an impressive Met debut early this year as Alfredo in Verdi's 'Traviata,' holding his own against the intense Violetta of Angela Gheorghiu. Mr. Valenti opened the Sunday program with '� la storia solita del pastore,' the lover's lament from 'L'Arlesiana' by Cilea. He shaped the poignant opening phrases with tenderness, building inexorably to the aria's impassioned final outbursts."
- The New York Times, 11/15/10 [Anthony Tommasini]
For more information, visit JamesValenti.com, his YouTube channel or the IMG Artists web site.
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| Joyce Yang on planes, trains and televisions | |
As one of four recipients this year of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, pianist Joyce Yang was profiled recently on New York's WNET/Ch. 13. "I heard the words 'Avery Fisher' and thought, 'oh gee, they're calling me to subscribe to a new series," she said about the day she got the good news. View WNET's video of Joyce's performance and interview at the awards ceremony at Lincoln Center.
In the past two months the 24-year-old dynamo made her first appearance in Australia (a recital presented by the Sydney Symphony, hailed as "an excellent debut"), appeared in Tel Aviv as an orchestral soloist, was honored as the first recipient of the Irving and Molly Sanders Memorial Juilliard/Tel Aviv Museum of Art Prize, and performed Prokofiev in her native South Korea with the broadcast orchestra. In between, she played recitals and chamber music in New Jersey, New York, and New Mexico, and continued her Rachmaninoff series with Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony. "Talent does not come any bigger than that possessed by pianist Joyce Yang," stated the Shepherd Express.
"Yang brought tremendous character, artful finesse and fiery virtuosity to the [Paganini Variations]. She moved from liquid arpeggios to decisive, striding passages and ringing, bell-like chords, folding her sound into the rich orchestral texture at points and erupting at other points into bold, dramatic playing. ... That combination of technical mastery and musical expression brought the audience to its feet with cheers."
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10/10/10 [Elaine Schmidt]
More more information, visit pianistJoyceYang.com or the Opus 3 Artists web site.
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Brooklyn Rider heads for Lincoln Center...and more
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| | Brooklyn Rider's Eric Jacobsen with new fans in Orlando |
Where to start with all the news for the versatile, adventurous, intrepid string quartet Brooklyn Rider?
- Lincoln Center has tapped Brooklyn Rider and Persian kamancheh (spiked fiddle) virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor to play a concert in its new Tully Scope Festival at Alice Tully Hall: March 9.
- Dominant Curve is one of NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums of 2010 (all genres from Thomas Ad�s to Kanye West). Listen to "Lydia's Reflection" by the group's Colin Jacobsen, "music that's as still and clean as a northern lake at sunrise," writes Brian Newhouse for NPR.
- The four Brooklynites are on the Silk Road Ensemble's album Off the Map, this year's Grammy Award nominee for Classical Crossover.
- A gifted writer, violist Nicholas Cords is an ongoing contributor to NPR Music's "Deceptive Cadence" blog. Read "Nicholas Cords invites Debussy to Dinner"
- Brooklyn Rider's appeal extends to all ages. Following outreach activities last month in the Orlando area, a third grader remarked, "They were like rock stars!" Read more: A Gift for Teaching
For more information, visit BrooklynRider.com, the group's YouTube channel, or the Opus 3 Artists Web site.
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