ODU Faculty Andrey Kasparov & Oksana Lutsyshyn
<p> join the Norfolk Chamber Consort as it concludes its 44th season with "Great Poles," a program featuring music by three great Polish composers: Fryderyk Chopin, Karol Szymanowski and Witold Lutoslawski. The performance will take place in the Chandler Recital Hall on Monday, April 15, starting at 7:30 PM.</p> <p> The concert will open with the rarely-heard Rondo for two pianos by Chopin as performed by the Invencia Piano Duo, followed by his "Polish Songs" sung by soprano Rachel Holland. This part of the concert will conclude with Chopin's magnificent Cello Sonata, played by cellist Jacob Fowler in his Consort debut in collaboration with pianist Andrey Kasparov.<br /> <br /> The second part of the concert will open with the Consort debut by a Polish pianist Anna Kijanowska performing the sophisticated Mazurkas, Op. 50, by Szymanowski. Annika Jenkins, a sensational young violinist from Virginia Beach, will join Kijanowska in Szymanowski's stunningly coloristic and virtuosic "Nocturne and Tarantella." The Szymanowski portion of the performance will end with his dazzling and technically challenging Variations in B-flat Minor, Op. 3, as performed by Oksana Lutsyshyn.<br /> <br /> The final part will feature the music by Lutoslawski, opening with his "Five Songs" in a rendition by Rachel Holland, followed by the humorous "About Mr. Tralalinsky", with soprano Agnes Mobley-Wynne and contralto Kelly Montgomery joining Holland and Kasparov. The concert will conclude with Lutoslawski's brilliant "Variations on a Theme by Paganini" performed by the Invencia Piano Duo.</p> <p> <br /> A pre-concert discussion by Allen Shaffer will commence at 7:15 PM. A free post-concert reception will be provided by Bite.</p> <p> </p> <p> <span class="eventFieldText">Tickets: $22 regular; $9 student </span></p> <p> For more information, please visit ncconsort.org, email olutsysh@odu.edu or call 852-9072.</p>
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Posted By: Andrey Kasparov
Date: Thu Apr 11 23:46:13 EDT 2013