$20
Lara St. John
and
Marie-Pierre Langlamet: "Bach Sonatas" album release concert
w/ music of Bach, Currier, Fauré, Debussy, and Prokofiev
w/ music of Bach, Currier, Fauré, Debussy, and Prokofiev
Wed., February 29, 2012 / 6:30 PM
Audio / Video
Gallery
About This Event
Minimum Age:
All AgesDoors Open:
6:30 PMShow Time:
7:30 PMDescription:
Program:
J.S. Bach: Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Harp BWV 1020
Sebastian Currier: Night Time (1998) for Violin and Harp
Gabriel Fauré: Sicilienne
Claude Debussy: La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
Sergei Prokofiev: Prelude for Harp
J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Major for Violin and Harp BWV 1016
TABLE SEATING POLICY
Table seating for all seated shows is reserved exclusively for ticket holders who purchase "Table Seating" tickets. By purchasing a "Table Seating" ticket you agree to also purchase a minimum of two food and/or beverage items per person. Table seating is first come, first seated. Please arrive early for the best choice of available seats. Seatingbegins when doors open. Tables are communal so you may be seated with other patrons. We do not take table reservations.
A standing room area is available by the bar for all guests who purchase "Standing Room" tickets. Food and beverage can be purchased at the bar but there is no minimum purchase required in this area.
All ticket sales are final. No refunds or credits.
J.S. Bach: Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Harp BWV 1020
Sebastian Currier: Night Time (1998) for Violin and Harp
Gabriel Fauré: Sicilienne
Claude Debussy: La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
Sergei Prokofiev: Prelude for Harp
J.S. Bach: Sonata in E Major for Violin and Harp BWV 1016
TABLE SEATING POLICY
Table seating for all seated shows is reserved exclusively for ticket holders who purchase "Table Seating" tickets. By purchasing a "Table Seating" ticket you agree to also purchase a minimum of two food and/or beverage items per person. Table seating is first come, first seated. Please arrive early for the best choice of available seats. Seatingbegins when doors open. Tables are communal so you may be seated with other patrons. We do not take table reservations.
A standing room area is available by the bar for all guests who purchase "Standing Room" tickets. Food and beverage can be purchased at the bar but there is no minimum purchase required in this area.
All ticket sales are final. No refunds or credits.
Artists
Lara St. John
Canadian-born violinist
Lara St. John has been
described as "something
of a phenomenon" by The
Strad and a “high-powered
soloist” by the New
Times.
She has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras including Cleveland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Royal Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the NDR, and the Bournemouth Symphony, among many others. In Asia, solo appearances have included the Hong Kong Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, China Phil, and in Oceania the Queensland Orchestra and the ACO2, as well as the orchestras of Adelaide and Auckland.
The Los Angeles Times has written, “St. John brings to the stage personal charisma, an unflagging musical imagination and genuine passion.” Recitals in major concert halls have included New York, Boston, San Francisco, Ravinia, Washington DC, Prague, Berlin, Toronto,Montreal, and in the Forbidden City. Lara owns and runs her own record label, Ancalagon. Her Bach Sonatas and Partitas was the best-selling double album on iTunes in 2007. In 2008 her world premiere recording of the Hindson violin concerto had Gramophone saying: “It’s the sort of work that should get audiences running, not walking, back to concert halls on new-music nights”. In 2009, American Record Guide said of her Vivaldi/Piazzolla disc with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela: “I can imagine no suaver, more atmospheric performance”, and her Mozart Sinfonia Concertante album with her brother, Scott, won the Juno award in 2011 for Best Classical Album (Soloist with Large Ensemble).
Lara began playing the violin when she was two years old. She made her first appearance as soloist with orchestra at age four, and her European debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra when she was 10. She toured Spain, France, Portugal and Hungary at ages 12 and 13 and entered the Curtis Institute at 13. Her teachers have included Felix Galimir and Joey Corpus. She performs on the 1779 “Salabue” Guadagnini thanks to an anonymous donor and Heinl & Co. of Toronto.
Photo by: Twain Newhart
She has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras including Cleveland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Royal Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the NDR, and the Bournemouth Symphony, among many others. In Asia, solo appearances have included the Hong Kong Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, China Phil, and in Oceania the Queensland Orchestra and the ACO2, as well as the orchestras of Adelaide and Auckland.
The Los Angeles Times has written, “St. John brings to the stage personal charisma, an unflagging musical imagination and genuine passion.” Recitals in major concert halls have included New York, Boston, San Francisco, Ravinia, Washington DC, Prague, Berlin, Toronto,Montreal, and in the Forbidden City. Lara owns and runs her own record label, Ancalagon. Her Bach Sonatas and Partitas was the best-selling double album on iTunes in 2007. In 2008 her world premiere recording of the Hindson violin concerto had Gramophone saying: “It’s the sort of work that should get audiences running, not walking, back to concert halls on new-music nights”. In 2009, American Record Guide said of her Vivaldi/Piazzolla disc with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela: “I can imagine no suaver, more atmospheric performance”, and her Mozart Sinfonia Concertante album with her brother, Scott, won the Juno award in 2011 for Best Classical Album (Soloist with Large Ensemble).
Lara began playing the violin when she was two years old. She made her first appearance as soloist with orchestra at age four, and her European debut with the Gulbenkian Orchestra when she was 10. She toured Spain, France, Portugal and Hungary at ages 12 and 13 and entered the Curtis Institute at 13. Her teachers have included Felix Galimir and Joey Corpus. She performs on the 1779 “Salabue” Guadagnini thanks to an anonymous donor and Heinl & Co. of Toronto.
Photo by: Twain Newhart
Marie-Pierre Langlamet: "Bach Sonatas" album release concert
Marie-Pierre Langlamet has been principal harpist on the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 1994, when she was appointed under Claudio Abbado.
Ms. Langlamet was born in Grenoble, France. She received her first harp instruction at the Nice Conservatory at the age of 8, from Elisabeth Fontan Binoche and has been winning international acclaim since she was 15, when she won the highest prize at the Maria Korchinska competition in the United Kingdom. On year later, she won first prize at the Cite des Arts Competition in Paris, and was only 17 years old when she was appointed principal harpist of the Nice Opera Orchestra, a position she held until she left to continue her studies at the Curtist Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The following year she was a prize-winner at the Concours International d'Execution Musicale in Geneva.
At 20, she was appointed assistant principal harpist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra working under James Levine. During her five years there, she continued to win major awards. She was a first prize winner in New York's Concert Artists Guild Competition, and in 1992 won first prize at the International Harp competition in Israel, which was widely regarded as the most important for the instrument.
She has received numerous awards including the prestigious Cino del Duca prize from l'Academie des Beaux ARts in 2003. In 2009, she was decorated Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture and was awarded Le grand Prix de la village de Nice in 2011.
Marie-Pierre has performed as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande among many others, and with some of the world's leading conductors including Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Trevor Pinnock, and Marek Janowski.
She teaches at the Karajan Academy and Universität der Künste Berlin and lives in Berlin with her family.
"Indeed, after hearing just the first sonata, I couldn't imagine wanting to hear it any other way......The results are not just enchanting but sometimes stunning, turning familiar tunes into welcome new creations"
-Classical Candor January 17, 2012
"Serene. Passionate. Powerful. Restrained. Thoughtful. Abandoned..."
-The London Free Press January 19, 2012
“What we get are readings of great finesse and power that also, in perhaps one of the very few recorded examples, show Bach not only as a contrapuntist and melodist, but as a composer equally adept at exhibiting instrumental color as well. This alone adds enormous emotional connotations to these pieces—at least the violin sonatas—that are often hard to detect in other readings.”
-Audiophile Audition January 31, 2012
Ms. Langlamet was born in Grenoble, France. She received her first harp instruction at the Nice Conservatory at the age of 8, from Elisabeth Fontan Binoche and has been winning international acclaim since she was 15, when she won the highest prize at the Maria Korchinska competition in the United Kingdom. On year later, she won first prize at the Cite des Arts Competition in Paris, and was only 17 years old when she was appointed principal harpist of the Nice Opera Orchestra, a position she held until she left to continue her studies at the Curtist Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The following year she was a prize-winner at the Concours International d'Execution Musicale in Geneva.
At 20, she was appointed assistant principal harpist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra working under James Levine. During her five years there, she continued to win major awards. She was a first prize winner in New York's Concert Artists Guild Competition, and in 1992 won first prize at the International Harp competition in Israel, which was widely regarded as the most important for the instrument.
She has received numerous awards including the prestigious Cino del Duca prize from l'Academie des Beaux ARts in 2003. In 2009, she was decorated Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture and was awarded Le grand Prix de la village de Nice in 2011.
Marie-Pierre has performed as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande among many others, and with some of the world's leading conductors including Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Trevor Pinnock, and Marek Janowski.
She teaches at the Karajan Academy and Universität der Künste Berlin and lives in Berlin with her family.
"Indeed, after hearing just the first sonata, I couldn't imagine wanting to hear it any other way......The results are not just enchanting but sometimes stunning, turning familiar tunes into welcome new creations"
-Classical Candor January 17, 2012
"Serene. Passionate. Powerful. Restrained. Thoughtful. Abandoned..."
-The London Free Press January 19, 2012
“What we get are readings of great finesse and power that also, in perhaps one of the very few recorded examples, show Bach not only as a contrapuntist and melodist, but as a composer equally adept at exhibiting instrumental color as well. This alone adds enormous emotional connotations to these pieces—at least the violin sonatas—that are often hard to detect in other readings.”
-Audiophile Audition January 31, 2012
music of Bach, Currier, Fauré, Debussy, and Prokofiev