Tricodes In Concert, January 7
Tricodes In Concert, January 7
SOUTHBURY â Wilson Hall at Pomperaug Woods will be the location for a performance by Tricordes â guitarist Daniel Corr, cellist Andrea Mills and violinist Andrew Smith â on Sunday, January 7. The free concert will begin at 3 pm.
The program will include works for violin, cello and guitar by Paganini, Vivaldi, Giuliani, and Ester Magi.
A Seattle native, Daniel Corr is active as a performing artist and teacher throughout the United States and Canada on both modern and 19th Century guitars. He has been a featured solo recitalist for the Seattle, Northwest and Upstate New York Classical Guitar Societies, at major universities such as Villanova, University of Washington, Montana State U at Bozeman, SUNY Potsdam, and University of New Haven, and at major guitar festivals such as the Northwest, and Oneonta festivals.
Mr Corr has been a concerto soloist with American Classical Orchestra in NYC, Benaroya Hall with Seattle Creative Orchestra, and with Orchestra of the Pacific Northwest Ballet.
He has performed widely on the Yale campus, including a concert shared with Portland String Quartet at Beinecke Library, and at Yale Center for British Art.
Mr Corrâs first commercial recording Concierto de Aranjuez: The Auburn Symphony in Concert was released in February 2005.
Mr Corr was the first place winner of the 2002 International Northwest Guitar Competition, a prize-winner in the 1999 Crane New Music Solo Performer Competition adjudicated by Pulitzer Prize winner George Crumb, and a recipient of Yaleâs Eliot Fisk Prize as the âoutstanding graduate in guitarâ in 2001.
He is a graduate of Cornish College (BM) and the Yale School of Music (MM, AD) where his principal teachers were Steven Novacek and Benjamin Verdery. He has also studied with Grammy winner Sharon Isbin of the Jiulliard School at the Aspen Music School in Colorado.
Ms Mills holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Hartt School and a Master of Music Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Among her teachers she includes cellists Alan Harris, David Wells and Peter Stumpf, and ensembles including the Cleveland Quartet, the Emerson Quartet, and the American Quartet.
She has participated in master classes with Orlando Cole, Irene Sharp and Yehudi Hanani and attended the Aspen Music School, the Yellow Barn Music Festival and the Spoleto Festival, S.C. She has held positions as principal cellist with Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, Wallingford Symphony Orchestra and Cleveland Womenâs Orchestra, with whom she performed as soloist.
As an orchestral musician she has played with numerous orchestras including Kalamazoo Symphony, South Bend Symphony, Illinois Philharmonic, Connecticut Virtuosi, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Greater Bridgeport Symphony, Youngstown Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, and Cleveland Chamber Symphony. In 2003, she joined the orchestra of Sarasota Opera Company.
She currently teaches and performs each summer as artist faculty at the Stamford International Music Festival in England. Her playing has been hailed as ârich and eloquentâ (The Evening Telegraph, UK).
Andrew Smith studied at the Royal Academy of Music in the United Kingdom, where his teachers included Erich Gruenberg and Emanuel Hurwitz. Upon graduating with honors he was awarded the Farjeon Prize and granted a position on the Advanced Solo Studies course.
He was appointed as Concertmaster of the Orquestra da Norte, Portugal, after finishing college in 1992, and in the same year he made his London debut at South Bank Centre.
He moved to the US in 1996 as assistant to Emerson String Quartet, winners of five Grammy Awards, and continued his solo studies with Ida Kavafian, getting his Doctorate in Performance from Hartt School.
As a soloist Mr Smith has performed with orchestras throughout Europe, China and the United States. He has appeared at such venues as the British Embassy in Paris, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, Edinburgh International Festival, British Music Information Centre, Chicago Cultural Center and Chicagoâs Symphony Hall, and his concerts have been broadcast on public television and radio in England, Italy, Portugal, and America.
As a guest artist he has appeared in concert for American Liszt Society, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, and the US Coast Guard, and was named 2004 solo artist for the LaPorte Symphony. His recording of the Glazunow Concerto appears on the VUCA label.
Mr Smith was a founding member of the new music group The Rubicon Ensemble and served as its artistic director between 1990 and 1995. He has taught on the faculty of Valparaiso University, St. Josephâs College, Hartford Conservatory, and Hartt Community Division, and is now director of Suzuki Music School of Westport.
In 2002 his study of fin-de-siècle art and music won him two awards for research at the Conservatoire Royale de Musique and the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. He plays as violinist of the Castillon Trio, ensemble in residence at the Stamford International Music Festival, UK.
The main entrance for Pomperaug Woods is at 80 Heritage Road. Call 262-6555 for additional information.