Event Calendar
Suite Solitude
Anthea Kreston
Saturday, March 20, 8:00 p.m. A concert with Anthea Kreston featuring the earliest known work for solo violin (Biber's Passacaglia) as well as several newly commissioned works by composers such as Daron Hagen's Suite for Solo Violin and Augusta Read Thomas' Incantation. $15, $12 HOH members.
Program
Fantasia No. 7 - Georg Philipp Telemann(1732)
Between Dog and Wolf - Gilda Lyons(2010)
Four - Anne LeBaron(2009)
Passacaglia - Heinrich Biber(c. 1676)
Incantation - Augusta Read Thomas(1995)
Suite for Violin - Daron Hagen(1984)
Violinist Anthea Kreston has received numerous awards for her chamber collaborations including honors at the Melbourne and Banff International Competitions, the Grand Prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and Top Prize in the Munich ARD International Chamber Music Competition. The San Diego Reader said of her "...Anthea is a soloist of the Heifetz- Shaham-Vengerov caliber, whose musical instincts could make even a mere bagatelle thrill the soul and stir the senses to a frenzy." She made her solo debut at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and tours actively with her piano trio, The Amelia Piano Trio. Anthea has won awards from Chamber Music America for her groundbreaking work with abused children and AIDS patients in Hartford, CT. The Amelia Piano Trio has enjoyed a busy performance schedule since its forming. One of the brightest young groups in America, the Trio was honored as a recipient of the ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. She has also enjoyed touring as part of YoYo Ma's Silk Road Project, which brought her from Las Vegas to Kazakhstan. Anthea holds a B.A. in Women's Studies from Cleveland State University and a performance degree from the Curtis Institute of Music. She is a professor of violin and viola at the Hartt School of Music. Anthea is actively involved with alternative music; she played in the Cleveland based rock band "Daria" for several years, and frequently performs with her violin and percussion duo, "Sweet Thunder". Anthea can be heard on the labels New Tangent, Naxos, Cedille Records, Channel Classics, and Traditional Crossroads.
The Man Who Planted Trees
Puppet State Theatre Company from Scotland
Co-presented with Stageworks/Hudson
Friday, March 26, 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m. A captivating adaptation of Jean Giono's environmental cult classic. A French shepherd sets out with his dog to plant a forest and transform a barren landscape. An unforgettable story that shows the difference one man (and his dog!) can make to the world. A unique blend of comedy, puppetry and inspiring storytelling. For adults and children ages 7 & up. Performances take place at Stageworks/Hudson 41 Cross Street, Hudson. $15 adults, $10 youth.
Puppet State Theatre Company was founded in 2003 by Richard Medrington, who has worked as a professional puppeteer since 1984. In 2006 he teamed up with Rick Conte and Ailie Cohen to develop an adaptation of Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees. Aided by stage/office manager Elspeth Murray and administrator Jennifer Williams, the first three years of touring saw the show performed more than 800 times. In 2009, they appeared for the fourth time at the Edinburgh Fringe and were honoured to be part of the new Made in Scotland Showcase. Touring to date has involved performing in all corners of the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands, Bermuda, Malaysia, and the USA. Awards include the Eco Prize for Creativity 2007, Total Theatre Award for Story Theatre 2008, Victor Award for best show at the International Performing Arts for Youth Showcase in Cleveland, Ohio and Best Children's Show at the Brighton Festival 2009. In October 2009, Puppet State was part of Scots on Broadway and performed to great acclaim at the New Victory Theater in New York.
Gare du Nord
Duos of Parisian Influence
duo parnas
Saturday, March 27, 8:00 p.m.
Join Madalyn Parnas, violin & Cicely Parnas, cello as they present
their CD, Gare du Nord. This recording
for duo
parnas features works by Martinu, Milhaud, Gliere,
Fennelly, and Honegger. $15, $12 HOH members, includes light refreshments.
Violinist Madalyn Parnas has firmly established
her place on the concert stage as both a brilliant and charismatic
soloist, and a gifted chamber musician with a rare and exceptional
sensitivity. This young artist has performed more than thirty concerti
with orchestra, making her debut at age twelve and collaborating
with the great master musician and conductor Jaime Laredo last season.
With equal passion Madalyn has devoted her energy to the study and
performance of chamber music. Collaborating for twelve years with
sister cellist Cicely as duo parnas.
Cellist Cicely Parnas is one of the finest young
artists performing today, easily recognized for her uniquely sincere
musical voice and highly individualized sound. Her exquisite tone
and spontaneous creativity are fueled by a limitless generosity
and fearlessness making for exciting performance. Cicely began studying
the cello at age four, and made her orchestral debut at nine. Since
then Cicely has performed over two dozen times as guest soloist
with orchestra, including the New York String Orchestra conducted
by master musician and conductor, Jaime Laredo, and David Alan Miller's
Albany Symphony. Three of Cicely's concerto performances have been
presented on WQXR's "McGraw Hill Young Artist Showcase" in New York.
Cicely has also claimed six 1st prizes in national and regional
soloist competitions.
The duo has made extraordinary achievements include winning 1st
prize in international chamber music competition at Carnegie Hall,
releasing two internationally acclaimed CDs, and performing 21st
century compositions written for them by award-winning composers
and earning rave reviews. Of one such work presented at Symphony
Space, a New York Times review read, "The duo parnas gave the piece
an electrifying reading, couching it in a lush tone and executing
its complex interplay with pinpoint precision." In 2007, Madalyn
and Cicely began working with the distinguished artist Peter Serkin
as the Parnas/Serkin Trio. Their debut concert followed in the 08/09
season, and since then numerous concerts have riveted audiences.
The Red Lions
Friday, April 2, 8:00 p.m.The Red Lions is an indie-chamber rock band, a creation of singer-songwriter Eric Margan. Through a number of evolutions from its beginning in 2005, The Red Lions has always been and remains, by Margan's design, the palette of sounds this young artist requires to paint his highly imaginative musical pictures. Members include Eric Margan, vocals, guitar, Rick Spataro, guitar, keyboard, Scott Kellerhouse, bass, Jim Bertini, drums, and features Madalyn Parnas, violin, and Cicely Parnas, cello. The Red Lions continue performing regularly in the Northeast while they are preparing to record a second disc including Margan's new songs and more.$15, $12 HOH members.
Eric Margan began formal musical training on the flute at an early age, and shortly thereafter began experimenting musically on the guitar, piano, and bass on his own time and in his own way. At fourteen he formed his first band - a three-piece rock group in which he was co-songwriter, bassist, and singer. Margan also played bass in a number of jazz ensembles and combos throughout his high school years until he entered the College of Saint Rose on full-scholarship majoring in Music Industry. It was then and there he focused on his passion of songwriting and recording, but he also earned top academic honors, studied and mastered the double bass, continued playing the flute, the bass guitar, the piano, singing, and playing in bands. His time spent on the double-bass performing in classical chamber orchestras and chamber ensembles, became for Margan part of the sound construction that would become uniquely his niche: the indie-chamber rock sound. A master of orchestration and a gifted writer of poetry, Margan is now writing sophisticated and engaging songs, orchestrating each with a unique combination of sounds, and breathing life into each with his inspired and sensitive lyrics. But the centerpiece of all his music is Margan's talented band, The Red Lions.
Incident Report No. 31
Saturday, April 10, 6:00 - 9:00p.m.HOH, WGXC & Incident Report present Incident No. 31: Julie Lequin One Night Performance of Top 30, with special guests Tom Morini, Jeremy Kelly on Saturday, April 10, from 6 - 9 pm. The performance of Top 30 combines live presentation with video projection.
Julie Lequin (born in Laval, Quebec in 1979) is a French Canadian artist. She received a BFA from Concordia University (Montreal, PQ) in 2001 and an MFA from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) in 2005. Julie's multidisciplinary practice interweaves personal history with fictionalized events and circumstances in a manner that constantly blurs the line between the artist as individual and the artist as self-consciously constructed persona. Julie's first book and DVD project was published in 2007 by 2nd Cannons Publications. In 2008, Julie was awarded a fellowship from the California Community Foundation and residencies at Yaddo, Art Omi, and Macdowell Colony. In 2009, she exhibited at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in California, White Columns and Horton & Liu gallery in New York City. Julie is currently based in Quebec where she is working towards her next solo exhibition at the Darling Foundry in Montreal.
Thomas Kiko Morini is a two-year resident musician of Hudson, NY. From Bogota, raised in Carmel, educated in Great Barrington and set out amongst the lively characters of Hudson. His music is inspired by theatrical integration, socialist fundamentals, and the progressive and active expression of love and spirituality. He is a volunteer for WGXC and has recently helped the station to organize the entertainment for the New Year's Masquerade event. He will be working this summer on a collective musical/theatrica/mixed medium performance art project to be presented over a full weekend at the Basilica Industria in July. This project will be open to community ideas and installations. He encourages all curiosity to be discussed. Puravida.
Jeremy Kelly (b. 1980) is an electro-acoustic musician and instrument builder. Blending guitar pieces that have been compared to Six Organs of Admittance, Sandy Bull, James Blackshaw and John Fahey with modular synthesizer, found sound, looping and homemade electronics to create deep, immersing soundscapes. Jeremy has several releases available on his own Night Goat imprint, Digitalis Industries, Tape Drift Records and Reverb Worship, with forthcoming albums on House of Alchemy, Stunned Records And Digitalis. He will be joined by long time collaborator Geoff Maciolek (modular synthesizer, theremin and electronics), and a few special guest performers.
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Adam Neiman
Chopin Hour
Close
Encounters with Music
Sunday, April 25, 2:00 p.m. Hailed as one of the premiere pianists of his generation, Adam Neiman will demonstrate the special place Chopin holds in his instrument's repertoire and how the composer revolutionized the world of piano, presenting particular challenges to the performer as he pushed piano technique to a level unsurpassed at the time. $25, includes light refreshments.
Uncle Rock!
Saturday, June 5, 2:00 p.m.Inspired by American favorites like the Ramones, Neil Young, and Johnny Cash, Uncle Rock (aka Robert Burke Warren) uses music as a means of bringing folks young and old together. His interactive family performance will have everyone dancing. Uncle Rock draws inspiration from Maurice Sendak, The Beatles, Woody Guthrie and Shel Silverstein, taking his acoustic "rock of all ages" to clubs, libraries, bookstores, schools, and theaters. Many of the catchy, rhythmically propulsive songs were born at his day job as a teacher's assistant for preschoolers, where he landed after four years as a stay-at-home dad. Uncle Rock delivers plenty of celebratory, goofy singalongs, but the material doesn't shy away from shadowy elements of life, often showing how music can help one to face the dragon in the closet. Uncle Rock's CDs of family music have won critical praise from The L.A. Times, The New York Times, and Cookie Magazine, to name a few. He has been in the Top 10 of Sirius Satellite Radio's Kids Stuff and Pandora Internet Radio. $7 per person or $20 for the family!