*Chamber Music Concert
- Date/Time
- 12/06/2022 7:30 PM EST - 9:00 PM EST
- Location
- Diehn Center for the Performing Arts - Wilson G. Chandler Recital Hall
- Fee
- Free
- Description
- All students and faculty are invited to a special ODU Chamber Music Recital this Tuesday, featuring a special collaboration with dancers from the ODU Dance Program, led by faculty choreographer Kate Mattingly. Included is a heartbreakingly beautiful original song by faculty singer/songwriter Belén Vivero Palmersmith, featuring applied guitar instructor Eldon Sully. as well as the edgy "Strange Humors" for mixed ensemble and djembe by John Mackey. Hear music from "Howl's Moving Castle," Barber's Adagio for Strings, Mendelssohn's frenzied String Quartet in F Minor, and other masterworks played by the Russell Stanger String Quartet, Diehn String Quartet, Monarch Quartet, and the ODU Cello Choir. Thanks to Leslie Frittelli and Anastasia Migliozzi for coaching these ensembles!
*Recital Attendance Credit event
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/6351165901579261
Anyone unable to attend Tuesday can still catch the music/dance collaborations at the ODU Dance Association's concert tonight, Friday Dec. 2, at 7:30pm in Diehn Rm. 1202!
Full Tuesday program:
Diehn String Quartet
Simple Symphony, Op. 3 for String Quartet Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
II. Playful Pizzicato
String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1947)
I. Allegro vivace assai
Russell Stanger String Quartet
String Quartet, Op. 11 Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
II. Adagio
String Quintet in C major Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
I. Allegro ma non troppo
III. Scherzo
Avery Suhay, guest cellist
*Intermission*
ODU Cello Choir
Lágrimas de abril Belén Vivero (b. 1990)
arr. Carter Campbell
Belén Vivero, voice
Eldon Sully, guitar
Dancers: Alicia Marcondes, Lauren-Elise Padilla, and Atiya Wiggins
Choreography by Kate Mattingly in collaboration with the dancers
"Merry Go Round of Life" from Howl's Moving Castle Joe Hisaishi (b. 1950)
arr. Justin Zhao
Apres un rêve Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
arr./ed. Roland Pidoux
Lacey Wilson, cello soloist
Concerto in G Minor for Cello Ensemble Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Allegro Arr. Erinn Renye
Monarch Quartet
Strange Humors John Mackey (b. 1973)
Ayden Noteboom, djembe
Dancers: Isabel Butler, Olivia Cheskey, Asia Guns, Jamiah Mayfield, Caroline Seeman
All dancers are students in Ballet 1/Dance 201, taught by choreographer Kate Mattingly
About Belén Vivero Palmersmith:
Belén Vivero is an Ecuadorian composer, songwriter and former figure skater. She currently teaches Songwriting and Screen Scoring at ODU. Her music has appeared in short films, documentaries and TV including Vox News, RTVE (Spain), the WWE series and BBC iPlayer.
As a child, Belén received chemotherapy to treat leukemia and music was her best friend. As she grew up, practicing ice figure skating led her to discover her love for film music. She is a first-generation college graduate, completing her M.M in Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music, Valencia, Spain. She was able to study with a scholarship and had the opportunity to record one of her pieces at Abbey Road Studios with a 50-piece orchestra. In 2017, one of her pieces received the award for Best Vocal Song in a Film at the Garden State Film Festival.
In 2018, Belén released her first single "Lágrimas de Abril," a song dedicated to the thousands of victims affected by the devastating earthquake that hit the coast of Ecuador. The song won first place in Ecuador's nation-wide contest "Concurso Nacional Jóvenes del Pasillo." In 2019, this song was also nominated at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, Los Angeles. More recently, her song, "Soy Alguien Más" was a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
