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Didjeridu virtuoso Stephen Kent to appear on FUZE! Series and at SPACES

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by Mike Telin

Steven-Kent2How does a man born in Britain, raised in East Africa, and trained on the French horn come to play an instrument developed by the Aboriginal people of Northern Australia? “I was inspired to play the didjeridu while working as music director for Circus Oz in Australia in the early 1980s,” Stephen Kent said during a recent telephone conversation.

On Saturday, March 18 at 7:00 pm at the Akron Art Museum, Tuesday Musical will present Stephen Kent and the San Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet as part of the FUZE! Series. [Read more…]

Tuesday Musical: Imani Winds at E.J. Thomas Hall (Jan. 25)

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by Daniel Hathaway

Imani-Winds-2017The Imani Winds returned for their third appearance on the Tuesday Musical Association series in Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall on Wednesday evening, January 25. Their exuberant performance of brightly-hued works by Elliott Carter, Paquito D’Rivera, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Simon Shaheen, and the quintet’s own Jeff Scott and Valerie Coleman proved that two decades on the road together has only added depth and sheen to their distinguished reputation. [Read more…]

Tuesday Musical: a conversation with Imani Winds bassoonist Monica Ellis

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by Mike Telin

Imani-Winds-2017In today’s classical music world, there are many ways to define the term “modern music,” with all its cross-pollinations of styles and genres,” Imani Winds bassoonist Monica Ellis said during a recent telephone interview. “I think this program has an overriding commonality of modernism, yet that is expressed in so many different ways.”

On Wednesday, January 25 at 7:30 pm, the Imani Winds — Valerie Coleman, flute, Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe, Mark Dover, clarinet, Jeff Scott, horn, and Monica Ellis, bassoon — will return to the Tuesday Musical series in Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall for a concert titled “Considered Modern.” The program will feature works by Elliott Carter, Paquito D’Rivera, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Simon Shaheen, and Imani’s own Valerie Coleman and Jeff Scott. This writer will conduct a pre-concert interview with members of the ensemble beginning at 6:30 pm.

“The program also embodies who we are as an ensemble, and the mission we established when the group was formed 20 years ago,” Ellis said. [Read more…]

Tuesday Musical: Scholarship winners Cho & Kuznetsova return (Nov. 22)

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by Daniel Hathaway

cho-kuznetsovaWant a good return on your investment? Give scholarships to budding musicians to help them over the financial humps of their early careers. And if you’re smart, like Tuesday Musical, invite them back several years later to show scholarship donors how richly their contributions paid off. [Read more…]

Sō Percussion to join UA Percussion Ensemble and Akron Symphony in concerts this week

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by Mike Telin

It’s all aboso-percussion-onstageut Sō Percussion in Akron this week. On Wednesday, October 12 at 7:00 pm in Guzzetta Recital Hall, Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting will team up with the University of Akron’s Percussion Ensemble for a performance of Steve Reich’s groundbreaking composition Drumming as part of Tuesday Musical’s FUZE series.

Then on Saturday, October 15 at 8:00 pm in E.J. Thomas Hall, Sō Percussion will join Christopher Wilkins and the Akron Symphony in Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s man made for percussion quartet and orchestra. The evening will also include Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Overture to The Wasps, Tan Dun’s Secret of Wind and Birds, and Gustav Holst’s The Planets. Lang and Wilkins will present the concert’s “Preview from the Podium” at 7:00 pm. [Read more…]

Emerson Quartet opens TMA Series with premiere of Turnage’s Shroud (Sept. 27)

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by Neil McCalmont

emersonsq2016On September 27, Tuesday Musical opened its 129th season with the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Shroud as performed by one of the world’s leading chamber groups, the Emerson String Quartet. With their legendary clarity and musicality, violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton, and cellist Paul Watkins brought to life the Turnage and works by Mozart and Beethoven. [Read more…]

Tuesday Musical: Gregg Kallor & Adriana Zabala at E.J. Thomas (April 21)

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by Mike Telin

Gregg-Kallor-Adriana Zabala-300In an interview with ClevelandClassical.com, composer and pianist Gregg Kallor said that when choosing a poem to set to music, it’s not enough for him to simply be moved by the text, the poem also needs to have a musical quality to it. On April 21, at E. J. Thomas Hall, Gregg Kallor and the excellent mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala performed an enthralling program of Kallor’s settings of poetry that touched on a range of emotions as well as being musically captivating. Presented by Tuesday Musical, the concert was given in honor of National Poetry Month. [Read more…]

Tuesday Musical: flutist Marina Piccinini & pianist Andreas Haefliger (Feb 9.)

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by Jane Berkner

Piccinini-HaefligerOn February 9 in E.J. Thomas Hall in Akron, Tuesday Musical Association presented a pre-Valentine’s Day celebration of marriage. The wife and husband duo of flutist Marina Piccinini and pianist Andreas Haefliger gave masterful performances of demanding literature, gifting the audience with a world premiere and a few wedding presents. [Read more…]

Cupid comes to Tuesday Musical: a chat with flutist Marina Piccinini

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by Christine Jay

Piccinini-MarinaWhat happens when the “Heifetz of the flute” (Gramophone) and a sensational pianist “at his peak” (International Record Review) converge to play music together? On February 9th in Akron’s E. J. Thomas Hall, Tuesday Musical will present a “Valentine’s Day prelude” recital given by the husband-and-wife duo of flutist Marina Piccinini and pianist Andreas Haefliger. Prepare for more than just sparks to fly — this recital should inflame even the most frozen of hearts.

Ardent? Yes, but this duo is more than just a romantic married couple who perform together –– they function as a high-precision team. “Andreas Haefliger is just an amazing soloist,” Piccinini said during a recent telephone conversation. “When you have a partner like him to do a recital tour, you’re very careful to choose works that are incredible chamber pieces for both instruments.” [Read more…]

Tuesday Musical: pianist Conrad Tao at E.J. Thomas Hall (November 18)

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by Daniel Hathaway

TAO-ConradReplicating in concert form the format he developed for his recent CD, Pictures, the 21-year-old piano phenomenon Conrad Tao walked his audience through two musical galleries on Wednesday evening, November 18. The second half of Tuesday Musical’s Margaret Baxtresser Annual Piano Concert had already been curated by Modest Mussorgsky, who used paintings by Victor Hartmann to inspire his popular suite Pictures at an Exhibition. [Read more…]

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