The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
Washington Friends of Music plan New Year party
WASHINGTON — Washington Friends of Music is starting the year off with a celebratory New Year’s Day concert and party at the Frederick Gunn School Thomas S. Perakos Arts and Community Center in Washington. The event begins at 4 p.m. Jan. 1.
“Artistic Director and worldclass cellist Wendy Sutter created a superb program featuring Vivaldi, Torelli and Telemann, which is sure to please the audience,” members said in a statement. “Twelve renowned artists, including from the New York Philharmonic, and principal musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, are performing with trumpet, two cellos, four violins, two violas, guitar, double bass, and harpsichord, an impressive concert appropriate to welcoming the New Year as well as celebrating the 10th anniversary of WFM.”
David Krauss, Principal Trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, will play Concerto for Trumpet “Estienne Roger 188” in D major by Giuseppe Torelli.
Members say Krauss has performed as soloist with the All Star Orchestra on their Emmy winning PBS series and has appeared as guest principal trumpet with renowned orchestras in the US, including the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. He is a faculty member of Manhattan School of Music, Mannes/New School, Columbia University, and Boston University.
Milan Milisavljevic will be featured playing Concerto for Viola in G major by Georg Philip Telemann. He is Principal Viola with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, on the faculty at the Mannes School of Music and is considered one of the leading violists of today. His playing is described as “very imaginative, with a fine, cultured tone,” according to WFM.
Cellist Wendy Sutter and guitarist Rupert Boyd are performing Manuel de la Falla’s “Suite Populaire Espagnole.”
According to WFM. Sutter is one of the foremost and diverse soloists of her generation and has been quoted as “one of the leading cellists of the classical stage” by the Wall Street Journal. In addition to performing on five continents she has played with major orchestras and at many concert halls and festivals, including New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, the Classical Tahoe Music Festival, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has appeared along the most significant living composers and musicians like Philip Glass, Steve Reich and others.
Strings are featured in Concerto for Two Violins and Cello in D minor by Antonio Vivaldi, performed by violinists Pauline Kim Harris and Conrad Harris. Harris is a member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; Kim Harris, is a GRAMMY®-winning recording artist, composer, curator and producer. She has appeared throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia as soloist, collaborator and music director, according to WFM.
The performance will conclude with Telemann’s Concerto for Trumpet, Violin and Cello in D minor, featuring Krauss on trumpet, cellist Laura Metcalf; violinist Daniel Khalikov of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; violinist Deborah Buck of the Lark String Quartet; violist William Hakim; Sutter on cello; double bass Jeremy McCoy, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; and Paolo Bordignon, harpsichordist of the New York Philharmonic and organist and choirmaster at NYC’s St. Bartholomew’s Church.
The audience is invited to a post-concert reception and to meet the musicians with champagne and hors d’oeuvres.
Further information and tickets are available online at WashingtonCT4Music.blogspot.com or by calling n New Preston.
Tickets include the concert and the party, and are $40 in advance or $45 at the door (cash or check only), based on availability. Children and students are admitted free of charge.
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