Chamber Music @ ALL - Book of Alleged Dances

Experience chamber music in the intimate setting of Arts + Literature Laboratory, the way chamber music is intended to be, and you are sure to come across music that is new to your ears. We'll play a little of this and a lot of that and see what happens in this new classical chamber music laboratory. Paran Amirinazari, of the Willy Street Chamber Players, is the curator of this season's Chamber Music @ ALL concerts. You are in for a diverse array of chamber music spanning the centuries including exceptional modern works you will not want to miss.

Tickets can be purchased for $20 ($15 student/ALL member) in advance online at https://allchamber2.bpt.me and are available until 2 hours before the concert online. Tickets can also be purchased at the door for $25.

Thursday April 28, 2022, 7pm (doors open 6:30pm)

Program:

“Book of Alleged Dances”

L.V. Beethoven (1770-1827): String Trio in E-flat major, Op. 3
John Adams (b. 1947): Book of Alleged Dances***

Musicians:

Kaleigh Acord, violin and viola
Paran Amirinazari, violin
Mark Bridges, cello
Hillary Hempel, violin

Paran Amirinazari

Having recently received her Doctorate Degree at UW-Madison, Paran Amirinazari is a violinist whose teachers have included Soh-Hyun Altino and Felicia Moye. An avid chamber musician, she is a founding member and Artistic Director of the Willy Street Chamber Players and a former member of the Hunt String Quartet. While studying to receive her Master's Degree in Violin Performance and Orchestral Career Skills at the University of Nevada-Reno, she was a member of the Nightingale String Quartet.

Since moving to Madison in 2013, Dr. Amirinazari has been a member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra's first violin section, Concertmaster of the Middleton Community Orchestra, and has performed with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and Dubuque Symphony Orchestra. Highlights from her time at UW-Madison have included being a winner of UW Madison’s concerto competition, and playing alongside the Pro Arte Quartet for Live at the Chazen’s Mendelssohn’s String Octet broadcast.

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Kaleigh Acord

Violinist Kaleigh Acord completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music in December 2020. At UW, she was a student of Soh-Hyun Park Altino and a recipient of the Paul Collins Fellowship. Kaleigh holds a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, as well as a Masters of Music and an Undergraduate Diploma from the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA. She was a recipient of Peabody’s Valerie Slingluff Violin Scholarship for the 2016-17 year. Her previous teachers include Violaine Melancon and Laura Bossert. In March 2014, she made her radio debut on WQXR’s McGraw Hill Financial Young Artist Showcase playing Schoenfield’s Souvenirs for Violin and Piano. Notable chamber music collaborations include those with the Hausmann Quartet, cellist Michael Kannen, and Tchaikovsky International Gold Medalist Sergey Antonov. Her debut album of unaccompanied violin works, Twenty-First Century... Read More

Mark Bridges

A native of the Boston area, cellist Mark Bridges received the bachelor's degree from Boston University, where he studied with David Soyer and Leslie Parnas. As a chamber musician he has performed with members of the Borodin, Muir, and Pro Arte String Quartets, attended the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar and the Banff Centre Chamber Music Residency, performed at the Token Creek Festival and has appeared several times on the CBC and WPR for “Sunday Afternoon Live from the Chazen.” He is a core member of Madison’s Willy Street Chamber Players. Mark holds a masters degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Steven Doane, and earned an Orchestral Studies Diploma during which he was a section cellist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been a section cellist with the Madison Symphony since 2016 and in September of 2018 he was appointed Assistant Principal Cello. Mark is the recipient of the Daniel Gregg Myers, Dorothea Schmidt nee Boller awards and... Read More

Hillary Hempel

Hillary Hempel moved to Madison in 2018 after becoming a member of Madison Symphony Orchestra and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in 2017. Prior to joining MSO and WCO, Hillary was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Hillary attended Colburn Conservatory of Music and Northwestern University where she studied with Robert Lipsett and Almita Vamos. The joy of sharing music with others is a gift, a language, a way to share ‘stories’, to express and create emotions and colors. That, in and of itself, is her goal when playing music whether orchestral, chamber, or solo music. When she is not playing the violin, she enjoys running, hiking, and spending time outdoors in any season and spending time with friends and family. Soli Deo Gloria!

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