Impromptu Concerts Begin New Season in Key West

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These great concerts are back for another year with some great venues.  Below is informatin from Keysnet.com.

Impromptu Concerts starts its 40th season in Key West

Forty years marks a major milestone, especially when it comes to producing quality music programs. And Impromptu Classical Concerts of Key West celebrates four decades with its 2012 season.

The highly acclaimed Firebird Chamber Orchestra opens the season with a Jan. 8 concert. The Miami-based group, which grew out of the successful Seraphic Fire choral group, has performed abroad.

Members are drawn from the Florida Philharmonic, the New World Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Colorado Music Festival, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and others.

Violinist Emilia Mettenbrink is concert master of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music summer opera program in Spoleta, Italy, and coaches a youth orchestra in Minneapolis during the school year. As a soloist, Svet Stoyanov has played at the Ravinia Festival, Emilia Romagna Festival and Avery Fisher Hall, among other appearances.

The show, like all in the concert series, is at St. Paul's Episcopal Church 401 Duval St., Key West. Showtime, as for all concerts, is 4 p.m. and tickets are $20.

In addition to the Firebird Chamber, the 40th anniversary concert schedule in 2012 includes:

 

  • Jan. 22: Trio Solisti: Violinist Maria Bachmann, cellist Alexis Pia Gerlach and pianist Jon Klibonoff. They have made critically acclaimed debuts at the Kennedy Center in New York City for Lincoln Center's Great Performers Series and at Town Hall's Peoples' Symphony Concerts, the Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts and at the internationally renowned Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy.

     

    The trio also performs on Jan. 23 at San Pablo Catholic Church in Marathon as part of the Florida Keys Concert Association (formerly the Middle Keys Concert Association) annual concert series.

     

  • Feb. 12: Piano soloist Marina Lomazov. An international concert pianist, she made her first appearance in Key West a decade ago.

     

    Before immigrating to the United States, Marina studied at the Kiev Conservatory, where she became the youngest first-prize winner of the all-Kiev Piano Competition. The Ukranian-American holds degrees from the Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music.

    She also performs on Feb. 13 for the Florida Keys Concert Association, also at San Pablo in Marathon.

     

  • Feb. 26: La Catrina String Quartet, whose repertoire features a Latin flair. World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma has praised La Catrina as "wonderful ambassadors for music." Currently the aculty quartet in residence at New Mexico State University, the La Catrina Quartet tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Mexico.

     

     

  • March 4: Conrad Tao, an award-winning pianist who is known for his work on the keyboard and composition. And he's only 17 years old.

     

    Tao, born in Illinois, has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra; the Russian National Orchestra; and the Baltimore, Dallas and San Francisco symphonies, among others. He has given solo recitals at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

     

  • March 18: The String Orchestra of New York City. This conductor-less ensemble has been hailed as deft and feisty, their sound described as radiant.

     

    A summer concert is also in the works, with a July 15 program that will feature the Symphony of the Americas. For tickets, visit www.keystix.com. For more information about the group, visit www.keywestimpromptu.org. 

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