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I’m a cello performer who has given concerts throughout the United States and abroad as soloist and chamber musician, and who has performed numerous cello concertos as soloist with orchestra. I have a vast repertoire, and am available to perform in a variety of venues and for different types of audiences. I also love to teach, and I maintain studios in the Sarasota-Venice area of Florida and the Adirondacks of Northern New York State.

January 21, 2016 Cello/Piano Duo

Sarasota Artist Series Jan. 21, 2016 at Michael's on East in Sarasota.

The concert starts at 11 am and is followed by lunch.  Joyce Valentine and I will be playing works for cello and piano including Couperin's Pieces en Concert, Chopin's Cello Sonata and Piazzolla's exhilarating Grand Tango.   About Joyce Valentine's Carnegie Recital Hall debut, the  New York Times states  “…an impressive debut…the Ginastera was brisk, centered, propulsive and altogether thrilling, capped with a slam-bang finale that brought the house down.”

Michael's on East Ballroom is located at 1212 S. East Avenue,  Sarasota, FL  34239

Call Artist Series Concerts office at 941-306-1202 for tickets (10a-4p, M-F). Individual tickets: $45.  http://artistseriesconcerts.org/events/category/lunch-look-listen/

Rachmaninoff Sonata duo

Click on the link below to see a video of Cristine Coyiuto and me playing the Rachmaninoff Sonata in Manila, Philippines.

>>> Rachmaninoff Sonata

 

Sounds from Bion to Beyond

Posted in Home page | November 24, 2017  

Bion Cantorum with R. Paul Urbanik, violin  and Ann Alton, cello

Nov. 17, 2017 at 7:00 PM

First Presbyterian Church, 2230 Hariet Street, Port Charlotte, FL

This concert features works inspired by the night and the cosmos, including Gjeilo’s  “Northern Lights”,  Wagner’s “Song to the Evening Star” for cello and piano, Barber’s “Sure on this Shining Night”,  and Stroope’s  beautiful “O, Notte” for choir, strings, and piano based on a poem by Michaelangelo

We will also play Piazzolla’s “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” arranged for Violin, Cello, and Piano. The movement Verano Porteno evokes a sultry summer night with the rasping of katydids, tango music from the dance halls, and the suggestion of steamy liasons in Buenos Aires’ ubiquitous telos (love-hotels).