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Violin and Clarinet

Presented in Cooperation with 
Washington Performing Arts 


Master Class 
with Calder String Quartet
 
  

Saturday 
February 27, 2016 
7:00 PM
Free


Washington Conservatory at Glen Echo Park
7300 MacArthur Boulevard
Glen Echo, MD  20812

 
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Take a peek into the minds of the Calder Quartet -- who will be performing on the Washington Performing Arts concert series at the Kennedy Center on February 28 -- as they coach three student string ensembles in a public mini-lesson and provide insight into the music and performance.

 
The Calder Quartet, called "outstanding" and "superb" by the New York Times, performs a broad range of repertoire at an exceptional level, always striving to channel and fulfill the composer's vision. Already the choice of many leading composers to perform their works - including Christopher Rouse, Terry Riley, and Thomas Ades - the group's distinctive approach is exemplified by a musical curiosity brought to everything they perform, whether it's Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, or sold-out rock shows with bands like The National or The Airborne Toxic Event. Winners of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, they are known for the discovery, commissioning, recording and mentoring of some of today's best emerging composers (over 25 commissioned works to date). More>>


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"dazzlingly prodigious technique" (Musical Times)

Haskell Small, piano

 

  

Haskell Small

Saturday 
March 19, 2016 
8:00 PM
Free (donations welcome)


Westmoreland Church
1 Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, MD 20816

 





 

Haskell Small, pianist and composer well-known for his innovative programming, will perform Bach's c minor partita coupled with John Tavener's "Pratirupa" as well his own Small Improvisations.
 

Following in the tradition of 18th- and 19th-century pianist/composers, Small often performs his own works. Hailed by England's Musical Times for his "dazzlingly prodigious technique" and praised for his "rich imagination" 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. He recently 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." 

Small has received notable commissions as a composer including a request from The Phillips Collection to compose a work to celebrate the return of their beloved Renoir painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party, in 2005.   His The Rothko Room: Journeys in Silence received its world premiere at the Phillips Collection in 2011.  Formerly Composer in Residence with the Mount Vernon Orchestra he produced three orchestral works.  The noted pianist Soheil Nasseri commissioned Small to compose Lullaby of War, a setting of six war poems, which has since been performed in New York, Washington, cities in Germany and Poland, and was released on Naxos Records.

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.

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.  A Washington DC native, he is a member of the piano faculty of the Washington Conservatory of Music.

More information:

301-320-2770 or online 

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The Washington Conservatory 2015-16 Concerts
PianoPiano, Plus!
  

FREE (donations welcome)
Westmoreland Congregational UCC Church
1 Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, MD 20816

  
                  
Edvinas Minkstimas, piano 
Saturday, April 2 at 8 pm
Schumann (Davidsbundler), Piazolla, Liszt  
 
   
  
  
 
 
                            
Julia Bogorad, flute
Lydia Artymiw, piano
Saturday, April 23 at 8 pm
In memory of Hope Bogorad 
 
  
 
  Michael Adcock
Michael Adcock, piano
Saturday, May 14 at 8 pm
  
 
 

VERGE Ensemble
Sunday, May 22 at 4 pm
New Music Ensemble in Residence
  
 
 
All programs subject to change.
  
For more information:
301-320-2770 or www.washingtonconservatory.org  

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2015/16 ISSUE 28

The Week @ WCM

Spring Semester for Individual Lessons 
Glen Echo Park &
Westmoreland Circle

  
  
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The Washington Conservatory is a nationally accredited community music school serving the greater Bethesda, MD and Washington, DC area since 1984.
 
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Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, MD 
 
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Washington Conservatory of Music
One Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, Maryland 20816