WMP CONCERT HALL

News from WMP written on April 23rd, 2010

 

Buy early and save!

Season tickets ($90/$50 for students) are available now by calling (212) 582-7536 or emailing admin@wmpconcerthall.com

Mr. Morgenstern has been acclaimed for his artistry and technical brilliance and performed in many of the world's great concert halls. The New York Times has hailed his playing as “a perfect demonstration of supreme ability.” The Washington Post wrote, “Morgenstern played a program that tested every part of a violinist’s equipment and he did it all beautifully.”

If you want to watch the five minute of the Bach Project DVD's presentation, please follow this link:

http://www.mlfilms.com/files/mlfmusic/b&fopeningbb.mov

Amazing performance of the Chaconne by famous violinist Joshua Bell:

http://www.mlfilms.com/

You can purchase the DVD Bach & Friends on : www.gostrings.com

Every WEDNESDAY at 12:30pm, we offer a 45 minute to one hour long chamber music concert. It is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of this concert series is to offer high quality music to the public while the lunch break. Our mission is to give something back to the community while promoting talented musicians. The musicians play on an Antonio Stradivari violin.

Wednesday, September 8th @ 12:30pm

The Escher String Quartet

Wednesday, September 15th @ 12:30pm

Violist Caitlin Lynch, violinist Sean Lee, cellist Jia Kim and pianist Yi-Fang Huang

Wednesday, September 22nd @ 12:30pm

Trio Picasso

Wednesday, September 29th @ 12:30pm

Violinist JoAnna Farrer with violist and pianist TBA

 No food or beverage in the concert hall

This Concert Series is sponsored by www.gostrings.com

News from WMP written on August 20th

They will perform Haydn String Quartet Op.33, No.2 "The Joke" and Beethoven String Quartet Op.59, No.1

Adam Barnett-Hart (Violin); Wu Jie (Violin); Pierre Lapointe (Viola); Dane Johansen (Cello)

The Escher String Quartet has received acclaim for its individual sound and unique cohesiveness. The quartet has performed at prestigious venues and festivals across the United States, including Lincoln Center, 92nd Street Y and Symphony Space in New York, Boston's Gardner Museum, The Louvre in Paris, Dallas Chamber Music Society, Fortas Series at the Kennedy Center, New Orleans Friends of Music and Orange County Performing Arts Center, as well as the Ravinia and Caramoor Festivals, Music@Menlo and La Jolla SummerFest. The Escher Quartet has served for the past three years as resident ensemble of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “CMS Two” program. The group has collaborated with such eminent artists as Andrés Diaz, Lawrence Dutton, Kurt Elling, Leon Fleisher, Lynn Harrell, Wu Han, Jeffrey Kahane, Joseph Kalichstein, Pepe Romero, pop folk singer-songwriter Luke Temple, David Shifrin, and Pinchas Zukerman. Within months of its inception in 2005, the Escher was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be quartet-in-residence at each artist's summer festival. 

In June 2009 the Escher debuts at the Bargemusic Festival in New York and continues the season with concerts at Colorado University, the University of Wyoming, and the Sanibel Music Festival. As part of the Chamber Music Society’s International String Quartet Series, the Escher performs in Lincoln Center’s recently renovated Alice Tully Hall.

Last season the Escher debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Louvre in Paris, as well as in New Orleans, Orange County, CA, and San Jose.  The Escher performed at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo and the Gold Coast Festival.  The Escher has served as the Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence in Caramoor – where they performed their first commissioned work by Pierre Jalbert – and in 2007 joined the faculty of Stony Brook University as Visiting Artist-in-Residence in a unique relationship with the world-renowned Emerson String Quartet. 

The ensemble takes its name from Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher and draws inspiration from the artist’s method of interplay between individual components working together to form a whole.

"The individual and sometimes concertolike playing of the four musicians was notable for its polish and tonal beauty."
-The New York Times