On Saturday, February 25, 2012 at 5:00pm, Classical Encounters will present a concert in a private home at 19365 Lemmer Drive in Tarzana.
Donations: $40 Premium (Keyboard View), $30 General, $20 Students
Wine and Light Supper are provided at the conclusion of the concert when you can meet the musicians.
Program:
Schubert: Moments Musicaux Nos 1 & 2
Liszt: Funerailles
Brahms: Fantasies Opus 116 Nos 1 – 3
Tchaikovsky: Reverie Du Soir, Op. 19 No 1
Rachmaninoff: 3 Preludes – G Major, G# Minor and Bb Major
Second Half: Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor Opus No 60
Pianist Dmitry Rachmanov has garnered much acclaim for his passionate performances, refined musicianship and brilliant pianism. Critics of major publications have called his playing “dazzling, thrilling, soulful, and deeply moving.” He is a Professor of Piano at California State University, Northridge, where he serves as Chair of Keyboard Studies.
Rowena Hammill- cello: Originally from Australia, she came to the US to study with Raya Garbousova at Northern Illinois University and then was assistant to Janos Starker at Indiana University for her master’s degree. While at IU she was winner of the concerto competition and awarded the Performer’s Certificate. For the next four years she served as Professor of Cello at the University of Northern Iowa before moving to Los Angeles in 1989 to take up the same position at California State University, Northridge. In 1990 she joined the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. She was concurrently the Associate Principal Cello of Los Angeles Opera, a position she still holds. Rowena has recorded for the Erato, Dorian and Centaur labels and has also played on hundreds of film and television sound tracks.
Violist Heather Bentley has dedicated herself to chamber music, both as a performer and an educator. She is currently Principal Viola of the Northwest Sinfonietta, the resident chamber orchestra at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall. From 2002 – 2008 Heather was Conductor of the Northwest School Chamber Orchestra, taking the orchestra on tour to Europe and China. She also performs as Concertmaster of the ensemble “Scrape†– a 17 piece improvising string orchestra featuring original music by jazz legends Jim Knapp and Eyvind Kang. Her commitment to educating young people is reflected in her work at the Seattle Conservatory of Music, where she was Director of Chamber Music from 2001 till 2010 in a program that now boasts an average of ten ensembles working throughout the academic year.
For more information: http://www.classicalencounters.org/
