Second Blog
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Hello again everybody! Hopefully you are all staying warm and happy!
I want to give you a few updates regarding my performances this year; the January 26th concert at Yale was a lot of fun and I was extremely happy that so many people were able to attend. I will be posting some audio/video clips from that night very soon.
Coming up next is Carnegie-Weill Hall on February 9th, 8:30pm. To promote the concert there will be a radio segment featuring yours truly on WQXR FM radio NY, Young Artists Showcase, hosted by Robert Sherman on Wednesday, Feb 6th 9-10pm. If you get chance, tune in!
In March we will be preparing for Concerto Night! on the 29th at 4:30pm in Sudler Hall. (Incidentally, this is the building next to Sprague on the corner of Wall and College St. in New Haven). I know this will be fantastic! Nick is going to play the Berg Violin Concerto and Noelia will play Schnittke’s Concerto for Viola. I am leaning towards something a bit more romantic, as always, perhaps Lalo or Saint-Sans.
In the meantime, Yale School of Music is heavy into the spring semester. There will be a production of Die Fledermaus from Feb 9-16th at the Schubert Theatre. After that, Helmuth Rilling, world-renowned conductor, teacher and Bach scholar will conduct the orchestra, Glee Club and Yale Camerata in Mendelssohns’s Elijah on April 11th.
As always, there will be several chamber music performances throughout the semester, free to the public, about which I will keep you posted. Our trio (David Kaplan,piano- David Southorn,violin) will be rocking out Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor one of those dates, for sure!
Also, don’t miss the Yale Cellos on April 21,8pm in Sprague. This is always an entertaining night with my teacher and director of the ensemble, Aldo Parisot. He fills the stage with a colorful array of his own paintings whilst we play arrangements of music for an orchestra of 20 cellos! This year we will play Bachianas Brasileiras Nos. 1 and 5 by Villa-Lobos, among other things.
That’s all for now, but I will have more for you in the coming weeks I’m certain.
All the best,
Ashley