Symphony Space—Leonard Nimoy Theatre, 95th & Broadway, NYC -$25; Members, Students, Seniors $15
This is a concert celebrating the chamber music of Andrew Rudin. It features his Overture-Rondo for two pianos (Duo Stephanie & Saar), Celebrations for two pianos and percussion (Duo Stephanie & Sarr and Anthony Orlando), and Museum Pieces for piano solo (Beth Levin), the Sonata for violin and piano (Miranda Cuckson and Steve Beck), Ephemera for clarinet and piano (Neil Rynston and Beth Levin), and the new Sonata for cello and piano performed by Eugene Moye and Beth Levin.
Percussionist Anthony Orlando was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he began percussion studies at age eight. In 1968, he received a degree from The Philadelphia Musical Academy, where he was a student of Michael Bookspan, principle percussionist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Prior to being appointed to the Philadelphia Orchestra by Eugene Ormandy in 1972, he performed with The Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra, The Opera Company of Philadelphia, The Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, The Lancaster Symphony, and the Trenton Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted clinics and master classes at The Curtis Institute, Temple University, Rowan University, University of Delaware, Oberlin College and The University of Michigan, among many others. He is active in the performance of new music and is a member of Philadelphia's Network for New Music.
Eugene Moye Jr has been ranked as “one of the foremost cellists of his generation" by the New York Times. He is the premiere cellist on the New York classical music scene. Principal cellist of Westchester Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra and Opera Orchestra of New York, he has soloed with all those groups. He also is sought after to play numerous chamber music concerts. In addition to this Mr. Moye has recorded with or backed up nearly every popular music star including Michael Jackson, Brittany Spears, Ricky Martin, Tony Bennet, Ray Charles, Kiss, and countless others.
Violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson is highly acclaimed for her performances of a wide range of repertoire, from early eras to the most current creations. In demand as a soloist and chamber musician, violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson is highly acclaimed for her performances of a wide range of repertoire, from early eras through to the most current creations. She leads a busily active life as a performer in major concert venues like Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, 92nd Street Y, Miller Theatre, and the Lincoln Center and Bard Festivals, as well as at universities, galleries and informal spaces. As a passionate champion of contemporary works, she has given numerous premieres of solo and chamber pieces and has in recent years been an enthusiastic and sought-after advocate in the area of new-music performance. She has recorded six much-lauded solo CDs, released by the Centaur and Vanguard labels: concertos by Korngold and Ponce, a two-CD set of the violin music of Ralph Shapey, and violin works by Donald Martino, Ross Lee Finney and Michael Hersch.
American pianist Steven Beck was born in 1978. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where his teachers were Seymour Lipkin, Peter Serkin and Bruce Brubaker. Mr. Beck made his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, and has toured Japan as soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble. Other orchestras with which he has appeared include the New Juilliard Ensemble (under David Robertson), Sequitur, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and the Virginia Symphony. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician at the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Miller Theater, Steinway Hall, Tonic, and Barbes, as well as on the New York Philharmonic Ensembles Series and WNYC; summer appearances have been at the Aspen Music Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Greenwich Music Festival, the Monadnock Music Festival, the Woodstock Mozart Festival, the Wellesley Composers' Conference, and the Walden School. He is an Artist Presenter and regular performer at Bargemusic (where he recently performed all of the Beethoven piano sonatas), and has performed as a musician with the New York City Ballet, the Mark Morris Dance Group, and the Christopher Caines Dance Company. As an orchestral player he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic and the Riverside Symphony. He has worked with Elliott Carter, Henri Dutilleux, and George Perle, premiered works by Charles Wuorinen and Louis Karchin, and has performed with ensembles such as Speculum Musicae, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Manhattan String Quartet, the Pacifica String Quartet, The Metropolis Ensemble, New York Philomusica, the New York New Music Ensemble, Ensemble 21, Mosaic, the Lyric Chamber Music Society, the Omega Ensemble, the Fires of New York, Ensemble Sospeso, the Second Instrumental Unit, the Argento Ensemble, the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the East Coast Composers' Ensemble. He is a member of the Knights, counter)induction, Talea, Pleasure is the Law, and the new music ensemble Future In Reverse (FIRE). His recordings are on the Albany, Bridge, Boston Records, Monument, Mulatta, and Annemarie Classics labels.
Neil Rynston's career has been diverse and innovative. He has been concerto soloist and principal clarinetist with several orchestras in New York and Europe, including Musikkollegium Winterthur (formerly, the Stadtorchester Winterthur) in Switzerland where he performed Debussy'sPremière Rhapsodie at the Stadthaus Winterthur, and the Vivaldi Travelling Virtuosi (NYC) with whom he performed Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A, KV 622and Bärmann's o for Solo Clarinet and String Orchestra. He is presently the principal clarinetist and orchestra manager of the Chamber Philharmonia of NY under the direction of Maestro Tali Makell and the Cosmopolitan Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Bernard Rubenstein. In the 2010-11 season he will perform Copland's Clarinet Concerto with Maestro Makell and the CPNY. He has also collaborated with such luminaries as David del Tredici for whom he contracted the ensemble for and performed in his monodrama Dracula for del Tredici's 70th birthday gala. An experienced chamber musician, Mr.l Rynston has been a repeated guest recitalist at the American Landmark Series (NY), the Dame Myra Hess Series (Chicago), Trinity Church Summer Series (NY), the Glencairn Series (Philadelphia), the Frye Museum (Seattle);, Michael H. Lord Gallery (Palm Springs, CA) has been featured on KING FM (Seattle).
Beth Levin, made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at 12. Soon after, she was selected as one of three students to study with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute of Music. Her training began with Maryan Filar at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. In addition to Rudolf Serkin, her teachers have included Leonard Shure at Boston University and Dorothy Taubman in New York City. She has earned the acclaim of colleagues and critics as an exceptional talent. She made her New York debut in 1982 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recitals at the Gardner Museum, Forum in North Carolina, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, Harvard University, Randolph Macon College, New York University, Williams College, the Brooklyn Museum, Merkin Hall and Weill Recital Hall followed. She has toured Europe with Trio Borealis and performed the Emperor Concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of Quito, Ecuador. Her live radio broadcasts have aired on National Public Radio, WGBH in Boston, WFMT in Chicago and WNYC, WNYE and WQXR in New York.
Appearing as soloist with such orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony and chamber orchestras around the USA, Beth Levin has worked with such conductors as William Smith, Arthur Fiedler, Benjamin Zander, Milton Katims, Silas Huff and Joseph Silverstein. As a Music From Marlboro Artist, she toured the USA and Canada and taped the Hummel Quintet in D minor for Columbia Masterworks. She has collaborated with the Audubon Quartet, the Vermeer Quartet, The Reykjavik Woodwind Quintet, the Daniel Quartet, the Boston Artists Ensemble and the Saratoga Chamber Players. Participation in the Taubman International Piano Festival, Marlboro, Casals, Harvard, Edinburgh Fringe and Blue Hill summer music festivals also resulted. Beth Levin was a founder of the Gramercy Trio and the American Arts Trio. Concert recordings of Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy and Scott Wheeler's Artist Proofs (1998) have been released on the Palexa label.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Beth Levin has performed and recorded contemporary works by Alan Campbell, Marc Eychenne, Mohammed Fairouz, Brian Fennelly, Steven R. Gerber, Alexander Goretzky, Louis Karchin, Michael Rose, Andrew Rudin, Scott Wheeler and David Del Tredici.
This is a concert celebrating the chamber music of Andrew Rudin. It features his Overture-Rondo for two pianos (Duo Stephanie & Saar), Celebrations for two pianos and percussion (Duo Stephanie & Sarr and Anthony Orlando), and Museum Pieces for piano solo (Beth Levin), the Sonata for violin and piano (Miranda Cuckson and Steve Beck), Ephemera for clarinet and piano (Neil Rynston and Beth Levin), and the new Sonata for cello and piano performed by Eugene Moye and Beth Levin.
Percussionist Anthony Orlando was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he began percussion studies at age eight. In 1968, he received a degree from The Philadelphia Musical Academy, where he was a student of Michael Bookspan, principle percussionist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Prior to being appointed to the Philadelphia Orchestra by Eugene Ormandy in 1972, he performed with The Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra, The Opera Company of Philadelphia, The Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, The Lancaster Symphony, and the Trenton Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted clinics and master classes at The Curtis Institute, Temple University, Rowan University, University of Delaware, Oberlin College and The University of Michigan, among many others. He is active in the performance of new music and is a member of Philadelphia's Network for New Music.
Eugene Moye Jr has been ranked as “one of the foremost cellists of his generation" by the New York Times. He is the premiere cellist on the New York classical music scene. Principal cellist of Westchester Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra and Opera Orchestra of New York, he has soloed with all those groups. He also is sought after to play numerous chamber music concerts. In addition to this Mr. Moye has recorded with or backed up nearly every popular music star including Michael Jackson, Brittany Spears, Ricky Martin, Tony Bennet, Ray Charles, Kiss, and countless others.
Violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson is highly acclaimed for her performances of a wide range of repertoire, from early eras to the most current creations. In demand as a soloist and chamber musician, violinist and violist Miranda Cuckson is highly acclaimed for her performances of a wide range of repertoire, from early eras through to the most current creations. She leads a busily active life as a performer in major concert venues like Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, 92nd Street Y, Miller Theatre, and the Lincoln Center and Bard Festivals, as well as at universities, galleries and informal spaces. As a passionate champion of contemporary works, she has given numerous premieres of solo and chamber pieces and has in recent years been an enthusiastic and sought-after advocate in the area of new-music performance. She has recorded six much-lauded solo CDs, released by the Centaur and Vanguard labels: concertos by Korngold and Ponce, a two-CD set of the violin music of Ralph Shapey, and violin works by Donald Martino, Ross Lee Finney and Michael Hersch.
American pianist Steven Beck was born in 1978. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where his teachers were Seymour Lipkin, Peter Serkin and Bruce Brubaker. Mr. Beck made his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, and has toured Japan as soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble. Other orchestras with which he has appeared include the New Juilliard Ensemble (under David Robertson), Sequitur, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and the Virginia Symphony. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician at the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Miller Theater, Steinway Hall, Tonic, and Barbes, as well as on the New York Philharmonic Ensembles Series and WNYC; summer appearances have been at the Aspen Music Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Greenwich Music Festival, the Monadnock Music Festival, the Woodstock Mozart Festival, the Wellesley Composers' Conference, and the Walden School. He is an Artist Presenter and regular performer at Bargemusic (where he recently performed all of the Beethoven piano sonatas), and has performed as a musician with the New York City Ballet, the Mark Morris Dance Group, and the Christopher Caines Dance Company. As an orchestral player he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic and the Riverside Symphony. He has worked with Elliott Carter, Henri Dutilleux, and George Perle, premiered works by Charles Wuorinen and Louis Karchin, and has performed with ensembles such as Speculum Musicae, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Manhattan String Quartet, the Pacifica String Quartet, The Metropolis Ensemble, New York Philomusica, the New York New Music Ensemble, Ensemble 21, Mosaic, the Lyric Chamber Music Society, the Omega Ensemble, the Fires of New York, Ensemble Sospeso, the Second Instrumental Unit, the Argento Ensemble, the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the East Coast Composers' Ensemble. He is a member of the Knights, counter)induction, Talea, Pleasure is the Law, and the new music ensemble Future In Reverse (FIRE). His recordings are on the Albany, Bridge, Boston Records, Monument, Mulatta, and Annemarie Classics labels.
Neil Rynston's career has been diverse and innovative. He has been concerto soloist and principal clarinetist with several orchestras in New York and Europe, including Musikkollegium Winterthur (formerly, the Stadtorchester Winterthur) in Switzerland where he performed Debussy'sPremière Rhapsodie at the Stadthaus Winterthur, and the Vivaldi Travelling Virtuosi (NYC) with whom he performed Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A, KV 622and Bärmann's o for Solo Clarinet and String Orchestra. He is presently the principal clarinetist and orchestra manager of the Chamber Philharmonia of NY under the direction of Maestro Tali Makell and the Cosmopolitan Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Bernard Rubenstein. In the 2010-11 season he will perform Copland's Clarinet Concerto with Maestro Makell and the CPNY. He has also collaborated with such luminaries as David del Tredici for whom he contracted the ensemble for and performed in his monodrama Dracula for del Tredici's 70th birthday gala. An experienced chamber musician, Mr.l Rynston has been a repeated guest recitalist at the American Landmark Series (NY), the Dame Myra Hess Series (Chicago), Trinity Church Summer Series (NY), the Glencairn Series (Philadelphia), the Frye Museum (Seattle);, Michael H. Lord Gallery (Palm Springs, CA) has been featured on KING FM (Seattle).
Beth Levin, made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at 12. Soon after, she was selected as one of three students to study with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute of Music. Her training began with Maryan Filar at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia. In addition to Rudolf Serkin, her teachers have included Leonard Shure at Boston University and Dorothy Taubman in New York City. She has earned the acclaim of colleagues and critics as an exceptional talent. She made her New York debut in 1982 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recitals at the Gardner Museum, Forum in North Carolina, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, Harvard University, Randolph Macon College, New York University, Williams College, the Brooklyn Museum, Merkin Hall and Weill Recital Hall followed. She has toured Europe with Trio Borealis and performed the Emperor Concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of Quito, Ecuador. Her live radio broadcasts have aired on National Public Radio, WGBH in Boston, WFMT in Chicago and WNYC, WNYE and WQXR in New York.
Appearing as soloist with such orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony and chamber orchestras around the USA, Beth Levin has worked with such conductors as William Smith, Arthur Fiedler, Benjamin Zander, Milton Katims, Silas Huff and Joseph Silverstein. As a Music From Marlboro Artist, she toured the USA and Canada and taped the Hummel Quintet in D minor for Columbia Masterworks. She has collaborated with the Audubon Quartet, the Vermeer Quartet, The Reykjavik Woodwind Quintet, the Daniel Quartet, the Boston Artists Ensemble and the Saratoga Chamber Players. Participation in the Taubman International Piano Festival, Marlboro, Casals, Harvard, Edinburgh Fringe and Blue Hill summer music festivals also resulted. Beth Levin was a founder of the Gramercy Trio and the American Arts Trio. Concert recordings of Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy and Scott Wheeler's Artist Proofs (1998) have been released on the Palexa label.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Beth Levin has performed and recorded contemporary works by Alan Campbell, Marc Eychenne, Mohammed Fairouz, Brian Fennelly, Steven R. Gerber, Alexander Goretzky, Louis Karchin, Michael Rose, Andrew Rudin, Scott Wheeler and David Del Tredici.
