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                                                                                                           August 2011 e-newsletter

Look & Listen issue: Sit back, relax, and get to know 21C Media Group's rising stars through these recent interview and performance clips.

In This Issue
Pianist Alessio Bax
Brooklyn Rider
Violinist Stefan Jackiw
Soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart
The Knights
Conductor Julian Kuerti
Mezzo-Soprano Kelley O'Connor
Soprano Jessica Rivera
Cellist Joshua Roman
Tenor James Valenti
Pianist Joyce Yang
Datebook

Aug 3, 6, 9: Sydney, Australia

Takesha Meshé Kizart

Opera Australia 

Puccini: La Bohème (Mimi)

 

Aug 3: Vail, CO

Joyce Yang

Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival

Two Piano Extravaganza

w/Anne-Marie McDermott+

 

Aug 4-6: Sioux Falls, SD

Alessio Bax

Dakota Sky Festival 

Masterclass & recital

 

August 6: Bellingham, WA

Joshua Roman

Marrowstone Festival

Dvorak: Silent Woods & Rondo+

                       

Aug 6-28: Asia Tour

(Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hanoi, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo)

Stefan Jackiw

Asian Youth Symphony

Saint-Saens; Sarasate; Sibelius

 

Aug 9: Santa Fe, NM

Joyce Yang

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Recital: Liebermann, Debussy, Schumann

                       

Aug 10-12, 14: Santa Fe, NM

Joyce Yang

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

4 concerts: Liebermann, Tchaikovsky

 

Aug 11: Bridgehampton, NY

Brooklyn Rider 

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival

C. Jacobsen, Byron, Glass

      

Aug 14: La Jolla, CA

Joshua Roman

La Jolla SummerFest

w/Assad brothers

 

Aug 14: Westport, CT

Alessio Bax

Westport Arts Center

w/Lucille Chung

 

Aug 15-21: Lexington, KY

Alessio Bax

UBS Chamber Music Festival

Daniel Kellogg premiere+

 

Aug 16: La Jolla, CA

Joyce Yang

La Jolla SummerFest

FX Mozart: Grande Sonata

 

Aug 19, 20: La Jolla, CA

Joshua Roman

La Jolla SummerFest 

Commissions & Baroque concerts

 

Aug 21: La Jolla, CA

Joyce Yang

La Jolla SummerFest 

Wong: Piano Quartet

w/Tokyo Quartet

 

Aug 22: New York, NY

The Knights

Central Park Naumburg Bandshell

Schubert, Liszt

 

Aug. 23: Edinburgh, Scotland

Kelley O' Connor

Edinburgh Festival 

Philharmonia Orchestra           

Ravel: Shéhérazade                              

Aug 24: Highland Park, IL

The Knights

Ravinia Festival 

Schubert, Liszt

 

Aug 24: Vienna, VA

James Valenti

Wolf Trap - Filene Center

40th anniversary gala

 

Aug. 26, 27: New York, NY

Kelley O'Connor

Mostly Mozart Festival            Mozart: Requiem

 

Aug 28 - Sep 01: Minneapolis, MN

Brooklyn Rider

Stillwater Music Festival

Founders & artistic directors

 

Sept. 2-18: S. Korea

Stefan Jackiw

Ensemble Ditto tour

Ravel & Fauré

 

Sep 8: New York, NY

The Knights

WNET/Thirteen broadcast

We are The Knights 

documentary (8:30 PM)

 

Sept 8: Los Angeles, CA

Joyce Yang                       

Hollywood Bowl

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Saint-Saëns: Piano Cto. 2

 

Sept. 10: Cleveland, OH

Kelley O'Connor

Cleveland Orchestra              

Beethoven: Sym 9  

                                

Sept 10: Rome, Italy

Alessio Bax

Solo & duo w/Lucille Chung

Auerbach's Piano Sonata 2+

 

Sept 14: Taipei, Taiwan

Alessio Bax

National Concert Hall

Recital

 

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Pianist Alessio Bax

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"With an electrifying technique [Bax] delivered riveting performances of Brahms, Enescu and Bartok" (SF Piano Examiner) in his Music@Menlo Carte Blanche recital on July 24, 2011.  

 

Stay tuned this month for Bax on APM's Performance Today playing and talking about his new Rachmaninov CD, Preludes & Melodies.

 

Visit AlessioBax.com, his YouTube channel or the Barrett Vantage Artists web site

 

Brooklyn Rider

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Brooklyn Rider previewed an excerpt of Suite from "Bent" by Philip Glass live at Time Out New York - March 7, 2011 [2:44]

 

The musicians played the world premiere during their Lincoln Center debut two days later at the Tully Scope Festival, and the piece is included on their new album, Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass.

 

Listen to interview  

Brooklyn Rider joined Irish fiddler Martin Hayes on WNYC's New Sounds with host John Schaefer - May 17, 2011 [57:40]

 

Visit BrooklynRider.com, the group's YouTube channel ,or the  Opus 3 Artists Web site.

Violinist Stefan Jackiw

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Violinist Stefan Jackiw was interviewed by Dutch TV (AVRO Klassiek) in Sydney, Australia for a feature called "What's on your iPod?"- March 17, 2011 [1:50]

 

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Jackiw played Mendelssohn with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House - March 24, 2011 [7:56]

 

Visit StefanJackiw.com, his YouTube channel or the Opus 3 Artists web site

Soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart

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Soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart on "life, love and desperation" behind the scenes at Opera Australia's 2011 production of Puccini's La bohème, which opened in Melbourne and at the Sydney Opera House - posted April 9, 2011 [4:43]

 

View performance excerpt 

Kizart as Mimi in Opera Australia's La bohème - posted April 13, 2011 [1:58]

 

Visit TakeshaMesheKizart.com or the Askonas Holt web site, and view video clips.

 

The Knights

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View promo video

"We Are The Knights!" by Daniel Cowen - 2011 [3:27]

Mark your calendars! The full documentary about the New York-based "orchestra of friends" was produced by WNET/Thirteen and will receive its broadcast premiere on September 8, 2011 at 8:30 PM, hosted by Paula Zahn.

 

Visit TheKnightsNYC.com, The Knights on YouTube or the Opus 3 Artists web site.

 

Conductor Julian Kuerti

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Conductor Julian Kuerti participated in a promotional video targeted to young people in advance of the New York City Opera's spring presentation of Oliver Knussen's Where the Wild Things Are. The New York Times praised Kuerti, in his NYCO debut, for drawing "a bustling, moody and colorful performance." - April 2011 [8:25]

 

Visit JulianKuerti.com or the IMG Artists web site .

 

Mezzo-Soprano Kelley O'Connor

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Mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor talked with Zach Carstensen of Seattle's The Gathering Note in this preview for her Seattle Symphony performance of Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs - Dec. 10, 2010 [13:18]

 

Request a review or airplay copy 

of O'Connor's Neruda Songs CD with the Atlanta Symphony and conductor Robert Spano.

 

Visit KelleyO'Connor.com or the IMG Artists web site.

Soprano Jessica Rivera

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John Adams had soprano Jessica Rivera in mind when he created music for the leading role of Kumudha in his opera, A Flowering Tree. Rivera recently starred in Cincinnati Opera's production and participated in this "behind the scenes" video - June 23, 2011 [3:31]

 

Visit JessicaRivera.com, her YouTube channel or the IMG Artists web site.   

Cellist Joshua Roman

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Joshua Roman introduces some Bach - and his Stradivarius cello - on the John Lennon Bus at the 2011 TED conference, where he participated as a 2011 TED Fellow. - March 3, 2011 [1:29]

 

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Joshua Roman played Paul Moravec's "Tempest Fantasy" in a WQXR Café Concert on July 22, 2011 [5:23]

 

Visit JoshuaRoman.com, his YouTube channel, or the Opus 3 Artists web site.

 

Tenor James Valenti

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In 2009 tenor James Valenti was named Dallas Opera's Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year. In his return to Texas this spring, Valenti portrayed the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto - March 23, 2011 [:55]

 

Visit JamesValenti.com, his YouTube channel or the IMG Artists web site.  

 

Pianist Joyce Yang

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In this preview of coming attractions, pianist Joyce Yang explores connections between music and art for her debut solo CD, Collage, to be released by Avie Records in October 2011. The disc features works by Scarlatti, Liebermann, Debussy, Currier and Schumann.

 

Visit Joyce Yang's web site or the Opus 3 Artists web site