WMP CONCERT HALL

WMP Concert Hall will continue concert series "Strad for Lunch" in June and at the beginning of July. Every Monday at 12:30pm, we will offer a 45 minutes long chamber music concert to the public, and it is admission free with a suggested donation of $5.00. The idea of this concert series is to offer high quality music to our neighbors while they take their lunch break.  Our mission is to give something back to the community while promoting talented musicians. The musicians will be playing on an Antonio Stradivari violin.

June 22nd    Violinist Francesca Anderegg and pianist Wei-Chih Lin

June 29th    Violinist Kiwon Nahm and pianist Sophie Patey 

July 6th       Violinist Ju Yeong Moon and pianist Xiaojing Chang (canceled due to injury)

July 13th     Violinist Lisa Casal-Galietta and pianist Danielle Nicole Errico

No food or beverage in the concert hall

News from WMP written on July 1st, 2009

Violinist Lisa Casal-Galietta, born on Long Island, NY, started her journey with the violin at age eight. As a soloist she has played with chamber groups throughout the Long Island area playing works by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. In 2000 she attended Stony Brook University where she received her B.A. studying with violinist Dr. Linda Sinanian. During her time at StonyBrook she received a scholarship to attend the Stony Brook Summer Music festival three years in a row. While at the festival she excelled at chamber music as well as premiered her own composition for trumpet, violin and piano, Distribution of the Mud (2003), written for close friends and colleagues pianist, Danielle Errico and trumpeter, Kevin Byrne. In 2006 she received a full Assistantship to attend the University of Akron in Ohio.  There she studied with violinist Alan Bodman. While in Akron she founded the Graduate Chamber Players which still exists today and she was a member of Trio du Monde along with flutist, Shelley Smith and guitarist, Chris Klug.  Lisa was very active in chamber music giving concerts throughout Eastern Ohio. Before she graduated with her Masters degree in Violin Performance in May 2008, she was recognized and awarded Most Outstanding Graduate Student in Strings as well as was inducted into the Music honor society Phi Kappa Lambda. As an orchestral player Lisa has played as a section violinist for the New Jersey Philharmonic, and the Mansfield Symphony in Ohio as well as for the Akron Ballet, playing at Carnagie Hall, The Staller Center, EJ Thomas Hall, Guild Hall, and at the Hampton Summer Music Festival. She also has played with many prestigious musicians such as Marvin Hamlisch, (as concert master), Randy Newman, jazz trumpeter Marvin Stamm and pianist Bill Mayes (as principal), Lukas Foss and David Amram. Along with working with these prominent musicians she also has had the opportunity to premier works by Perry Goldstein, Phil Kline, David Lang, Todd Reynolds, Paul Steinberg and Evan Ziporyn.
 


Pianist Danielle Nicole Errico was introduced to the performing arts at an early age and realized that music would be her special calling. Danielle had an early opportunity under the guidance of her first primary music teacher Esther Chung Marks, to perform the piano solo in Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals with the Sound Symphony Orchestra. Her first piano master class was with Norman Krieger from the Long Island Philharmonic Master Class Series.  This led Danielle to perform in Tzimon Barto’s master class, playing Debussy’s Reflets dans l’eau where she received the Long Island Philharmonic Music Award. This led to another opportunity to be featured as the piano soloist in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. She attented SUNY Stony Brook on an academic and music scholarship, and Danielle had many opportunities to perform in chamber music recitals and solo recitals with works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Liszt, Mozart, Saint-Saens, and Shostakovich. She also attended the Stony Brook Summer Music Festival three years in a row on scholarship where she worked with coaches Christine Dore, Maria Garcia, Linda Sinnanian, and Jeffrey Forden.  At that time she forged a life long bond with violinist Lisa Casal-Galietta. Their chamber group including trumpeter Kevin Byrne, was fortunate to have a coaching and performance with composer Eric Ewazen at the Juilliard School of Music. In 2002 Danielle attended the Boston Conservatory Summer Piano Program in the studio of Michael Lewin where she performed in a master class with Seymour Bernstein. After attending SUNY Stony Brook for two years Danielle transferred to Manhattan School of Music for piano performance studying under Jeffrey Cohen performing works of Bach, Barbar, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, Muczynski, and Ravel. She performed works of Beethoven under coach Gerald Robbins and works of Beethoven and Brahms under coach Marian Feldman.  Danielle received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance from Manhattan School of Music in May 2006.

This two talented artists will perform works by Brahms, Franck and Elgar.