Chamber Music @ ALL - Powerful Women

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://allchamber3.bpt.me and are available until 2 hours before the concert online. Tickets can also be purchased at the door for $25.

Thursday May 19, 2022, 7pm (doors open 6:30pm)

Program:

"Powerful Women"

Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931): String Trio
Shulamit Ran (b. 1949): String Quartet No. 3 “Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory”

Musicians:

Kaleigh Acord, violin and viola
Paran Amirinazari, violin
TBD, viola
James Waldo, cello

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

James Waldo

A native of Minnesota, cellist James Waldo leads a musical career marked by diversity and adventure. James performs regularly around the U.S. with his wife—pianist Alyona Aksyonova—as A.W.Duo (awduo.com), and the two completed their first tour of China in 2017. Formerly based in New York City, the duo performed in many of the city’s finest venues, including Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A specialist on baroque cello and viola da gamba, Waldo has collaborated with violinist Monica Huggett and lutenist Ron MacFarlane, and will debut with the Madison Bach Musicians in fall 2018. Waldo is a co-founder of Listen Closely, (listenclose.ly) an uptown Manhattan chamber music collective now in its sixth season. A regular grant-recipient from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the organization has presented over fifty community concerts in uptown Manhattan. Waldo serves as principal cellist of the award-winning Cecilia Chorus of New York,... Read More

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Chamber Music @ ALL - Powerful Women

Paran Amirinazari

Kaleigh Acord

James Waldo

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