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Violin and Clarinet
 Nikolay Khozyainov, piano 
2012 Dublin International Piano Competition Winner

Khozyainov, Nikolay
Saturday,
April 27, 2013
 
8 pm

Westmoreland Congregational UCC Church
1 Westmoreland Circle, 
Bethesda, MD 
             Directions

Free (donations welcome)

Video of Nikolay Khozyainov

Program
Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110....Beethoven
Sonata No. 7....Prokofiev
Intermission
Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60....Chopin
Etude in a minor, Op. 10, No. 2....Chopin
Berceuse in D-flat Major, Op. 57....Chopin
Sonata in b minor....Liszt

Born in Russia in 1992, Nikolay Khozyainov is the winner of numerous awards in international piano competitions, in addition to the Dublin Competition, including second prize in the 2012 Sydney International Competition, where he was also awarded the People's Choice Prize, first prize in the Alexander Scriabin International Competition in Paris in 2008, and second prize in the Sixth Moscow International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition for young pianists in 2008. In 2010, he was the youngest finalist in the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.

 

Khozyainov has performed in recital and with orchestras in Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Malaysia, South Africa, Germany, Switzerland, France, US, and Japan. He will make his debut in New York's Carnegie Hall on April 30, 2013.

 

Khozyainov studies with Mikhail Voskresensky at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music.

 

More info: 301-320-2770 or online 

almquistNancy Almquist, soprano
Jaewon Lee, piano 
BritHits: A Cabaret   

Nancy Almquist & Jaewon Lee
Saturday, May 4, 2013 
3 pm

Washington Conservatory
at Glen Echo Park
7300 MacArthur Boulevard
Glen Echo, MD
 
             Directions

Part of Family Day  
at Glen Echo Park

Free (donations welcome)

Music by British composers from Elizabethan times through superstars of today.

 

This fun and informal cabaret concert features music ranging from Elizabethan John Dowland through Gilbert and Sullivan and Benjamin Britten and includes works by the Beatles, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Coldplay, Adele, and more.

 

Soprano Nancy Almquist has soloed with the Washington Cathedral Choral Society, Washington Bach Consort, Hesperus, Folger Consort, Maryland Choral Society, Prince George's Choral Society, and the New Century Singers. Ms. Almquist has sung roles with Annapolis Opera, Opera Americana, The Other Opera Company, Interact Theatre Company, and the Washington Savoyards. She has been a recitalist at venues including The American Church in Paris, Harmony Hall, National Archives, Hammond Harwood House, and St. John's College. She has served as artist faculty at Northern Virginia Community College and St. Mary's College of Maryland. She is Director of Music at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in Silver Spring, Maryland and on the faculty of the Washington Conservatory of Music.

 
Pianist Jaewon Lee has performed with the
Cleveland Philharmonic, Cleveland Central Philharmonic Orchestras, Lakeside and Suburban Symphony Orchestras and has given solo recitals with the Fortnightly Musical Club of Cleveland Concert Series and the Korean American Association of Greater Cleveland. Ms. Lee, winner of the Seoul National University concerto competition, earned her BA and MA (piano performance) at Seoul National University; her Artist Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and did advanced studies at the New England Conservatory of Music. A former faculty member at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, where she was director/founder of the School's Piano Camp, Ms. Lee is a faculty member of the Washington Conservatory of Music. 

 

More info: 301-320-2770 

smallconcertHaskell Small, piano 
Music by Holst, Hovhaness, Mozart, Small

Haskell Small - concert May 4


Saturday, May 4, 2013
 
8 pm

Westmoreland Congregational
UCC Church
1 Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, MD
   
             Directions

Free (donations welcome)

 

 

 

 

 

Program

Sonata in B-flat Major, K 333....Mozart

Toccata....Holst

Prospect Hill Sonata, Op. 346....Hovhaness

Blue Job Mountain Sonata, Op. 340....Hovhaness

Hymn to Mount Chocorua  

from Mount Chocorua Sonata, Op. 335....Hovhaness

Pastoral No. 1....Hovhaness

A Glimpse of Silence (world premiere)....Small 

 

Small has concertized with great success in major European capitals, South America, Japan, and China, and has been enthusiastically received by American audiences in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Spoleto Festival. In 2010 he participated in an American Music Festival in Iceland.

 

A prize winner in the Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition, Small has received numerous awards and has been featured in the nationally broadcast PBS special, "A Celebration of the Piano."

 

Following in the tradition of 18th- and 19th-century pianist/composers, Small is also an accomplished composer, who often performs his own works. He has received commissions from such organizations as the Washington Ballet and Paul Hill Chorale, and was the winner of the 1999 Marin Ballet Dance Score Competition. In 2005, Small completed Renoir's Feast, a commission by the Phillips Collection to celebrate the return of their beloved painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party. His The Rothko Room: Journeys in Silence received its world premiere at the Phillips Collection in February 2011.

 

Small has recorded a number of CDs, among them Mompou's Musica Callada (declared "A Golden Silence" by the Washington Post), a Gershwin disc, a children's CD with narrator Robert Aubry Davis, and Bach's Goldberg Variations.  

 

In June 2011, as a recipient of a Creative Communities Fund grant to participate in an "artistic blind date," Small experimented with improvisations in four performances at the Source Festival in downtown Washington.

 

In the next few years, Small will be furthering his fascination with music that is primarily quiet, spacious, and of a mystical nature with a series of concerts in a number of cities that will feature solo and chamber works by himself and other composers. Performances have already been set in Washington, New York, San Francisco, and at Houston's Rothko Chapel.

 

Small received his musical training at the San Francisco Conservatory and Carnegie-Mellon University, and has studied piano with Leon Fleisher, William Masselos, Harry Franklin, and Jeanne Behrend, and composition with Roland Leich and Vincent Persichetti. Currently he is the piano department chair of the Washington Conservatory of Music.

Small recently arranged Czardas by V. Monti, for twelve pianists at one piano.  The work was performed by twelve Washington Conservatory piano faculty members, including himself, at the TEDMED conference at the Kennedy Center Opera House, April 16, 2013. The performance was broadcast live to over 200,000 viewers in 81 countries. 

 

More info: 301-320-2770 

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Next Saturday, May 4

2 Concerts in 1 Day

 

3 pm

Nancy Almquist, soprano & Jaewon Lee, piano

 

8 pm

Haskell Small, piano

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Washington Conservatory is a nationally accredited community music school serving the greater Bethesda, MD and Washington, DC area since 1984.

 

NOW ENROLLING 

 

Serving students of all ages - kids, teens, and adults - beginners to advanced. No audition.

 

301-320-2770 

 

Two locations:

 

Westmoreland Circle,

 

Bethesda &

 

Glen Echo Park

 
Washington Conservatory of Music
One Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, Maryland 20816