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Rebecca Printz is many things: a mezzo-soprano, a student in her fourth year at Oberlin Conservatory and College, a student of Kendra Colton's, an outstanding alumna of the Bach Institute (as well as its first-ever administrative intern), a Boston-area native, and the featured Young Artist for Winsor Music's annual Thanksgiving Concert, to name a few.
Winsor Music is pleased to announce that we will be releasing a private, archival recording of the late mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson performing Bach's Cantata BWV 170 with Peggy Pearson and the Greenleaf Chamber Players, never before available to the public. This past week, Peggy shared her stories, memories and photographs of Lorraine and this project with us.
Last April, we celebrated the premiere of Lev Mamuya's final composition for Winsor Music as a high school student, and this fall, we welcome him back as a freshman at Harvard and NEC (fortunately for us, he didn't go too far!).
Winsor Music is pleased to announce that we are participating in the 2014 Mayor’s Holiday! A decade-plus tradition originally supported by the late Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the Mayor’s Holiday is an eight-week celebration of the area’s performing arts featuring thousands of half-priced tickets to over 130 holiday shows throughout Boston and beyond.
We just kicked off the season with a great concert, but Peggy is on the road again! This week, our Artistic Director is in NYC with composer Eric Nathan, violinist Samuel Rhodes, pianist Mei Rui, and the Momenta Quartet. On Friday, they will be performing a concert of Eric Nathan's music at Tenri Cultural Institute, and on Saturday, they head to the studio to record Eric's debut Portrait CD, which will be released in the fall of 2015 by Albany Records.
As an oboist, I often think I am the luckiest person alive because I have the Bach cantata repertoire. Perhaps this should be enough to keep an oboist going! However, as the artistic director of a chamber series (who enjoys performing), I struggle with the fact that the chamber music repertoire for oboe is limited. Coming up with programs involving the oboe is a challenge, but it's a good challenge to have.
Meet George Li, the distinguished Young Artist who will appear with Winsor Music on Sunday, Sept. 14th, 7:00pm, at St. Paul's Church in Brookline. George is a prizewinning pianist and sought-after concerto soloist who has played for President Obama, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, and members of Congress. He gave us a thoughtful and insightful interview recently, which we're very pleased to be able to share with you here.
Meet Harold Meltzer, Guggenheim fellow, Pulitzer Prize finalist, co-founder and Artistic Director of the ensemble SEQUITUR, and composer of Air and Angels, Winsor Music's newest commission!
This spring, we gave more concerts at the Mather School than ever before, and John Harbison's Crossroads, a Winsor Music Consortium Commission, has been touring the world! Read all about it in our newsletter.
Winsor Music is pleased to announce that George Li will perform as our featured Young Artist on the Opening Concert of our 2014 Chamber Series.
Renowned Bach scholar (and friend of Winsor Music) John Harbison had a wonderful conversation with our artistic director Peggy Pearson the other day. They were talking about the chorale prelude "Vater unser im Himmelreich," which you'll hear on tomorrow night's concert, so Peggy took good notes!
Andrew Waggoner is a critically-acclaimed, prize-winning composer who has been praised by the New Yorker as “a gifted practitioner of a complex but dramatic and vividly colored style.” He took some time recently to talk about his style, his thought process, and his new piece for Winsor Music, in a thoroughly enjoyable conversation that spanned topics as diverse as pop/rock and thirteenth-century mystics.
Meet Lev Mamuya, a seventeen-year-old composer and prize-winning cellist who will be performing in the premiere of Ingrain, his third composition for Winsor Music, on our April 12 concert at St. Paul's Church in Brookline.
It’s said that in the winter of 1705, a twenty-year old J.S. Bach traveled over 260 miles on foot to see the organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude perform in Lubeck, on the Baltic Coast of Germany. The students of the 2014 Bach Institute may not have come to us on foot, but they metaphorically followed in young Johann’s footsteps when they flew and drove through not one, but two polar vortices to immerse themselves in the music of Bach, guided by a seasoned and distinguished faculty in our own snowy coastal city of Boston.
The Bach Institute is a collaboration of Winsor Music, Emmanuel Music and Oberlin Conservatory that mentors college and conservatory students in an intensive exploration of the historical framework and performance of Bach cantatas. More information can be found at emmanuelmusic.org.
The annual concert on the Saturday after Thanksgiving is praised by John Ehrlich, reviewing for the Boston Musical Intelligencer.
Today our campaign to fund concerts at the Mather School in Dorchester has ended, and we’re about 68% over our goal! Thanks to all who supported us – and who helped some kids enjoy music.
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Music has launched a Kickstarter project to fund concerts at the Mather School in Dorchester. We hope to raise enough money to give 12 concerts for the kids at Mather, and show them that music is fun and can bring joy into their lives. The project is viewable at: kickstarter.com
Peggy Pearson and others premiere John Harbison’s new work, Crossroads, on a program of three world premieres by Harbison, Stucky, and Del Tredici at La Jolla SummerFest 2013.
We're thrilled to announce that we're arriving at the final (and most exciting stage) of a long and fruitful journey with John Harbison and our consortium partners.