October 23-24
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Saturday | 10.24.15 | 8:00 PM
The DiMenna Center
Tickets available at Eventbrite. A program of American composers for our first series at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music! Featuring guest artist Weiyin Chen at the piano for George Gershwin’s beloved Rhapsody in Blue, a fusion of classical music and jazz effects. We will be taken on an excursion with Gerard Schwarz’s orchestral tone poem, A Journey, for its NYC premiere. The orchestra’s own Angela Shankar will introduce us into the world of jazz with Artie Shaw’s virtuosic Clarinet Concerto and a world premiere piece by TCS composer-in-residence Aaron Dai entitled Allegretto Giocoso will open the concert.
Premium advanced purchased tickets for best available seating in a reserved area are available on Eventbrite for $25.
Tickets are also available at the door for a suggested donation of $20.
This concert will be held at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 W. 37th St.
Program
Allegretto Giocoso
(World Premiere)
Featured Artists
A thoughtful, lyrical, and accomplished artist.
– Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
In a time of promising young virtuosos from all over the world the Taiwanese-American pianist Weiyin Chen stands out not just for her dazzling technique, but above all for the sheer musicality and maturity of her playing, qualities rare in an artist of her young years. Her gift for getting to the musical “heart” of the scores she plays has drawn the attention and praise of such …
The daughter of two musicians from her native Cleveland, Ohio, Angela is a performer and educator in New York City.
Active in the musical theater world, you can find Angela currently subbing in the Broadway pit orchestras of Sunset Boulevard and Wicked. She’s previously played in the Broadway pit orchestras of Suffs, Camelot and The Music Man, Off-Broadway with Merrily We Roll Along, Harmony, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, and with the National Touring Company of Les Miserables. …
Conductor
A leader in the 21st century orchestral landscape, Dr. Matthew Aubin is constantly reaching new audiences through innovative performance formats and creative initiatives both on and off the podium.
The 2022-23 season kicks off Dr. Aubin’s inaugural year as Music Director of the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he is Music Director of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra and serves as Artistic Director of The Chelsea Symphony. In his role at TCS, he has led highly visible collaborations with partners such …
Mark Seto leads a wide-ranging musical life as a conductor, scholar, teacher, and violinist. He is Artistic Director and Conductor of The Chelsea Symphony in New York City, and Senior Lecturer in Music at Brown University, where he directs the Brown University Orchestra and teaches courses in music history, theory, and conducting. Recent highlights include performances with violinist Itzhak Perlman, violinist Randall Goosby, and clarinetist Anthony McGill, and the inauguration of The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University.
Since …