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Chamber Music @ ALL

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 in advance ($15 student/ALL member) and are available until 2 hours before the concert online at https://allchamber1.bpt.me Tickets can also be purchased at the door for $25.

Thursday February 24, 7pm (doors open 6:30pm)

Program:
Mark O’Connor: Blackberry Mull (10’)
    Amirinazari, Acord, Johnson
Jessie Montgomery: Duo for Violin and Cello (10’)
    Amirinazari, Johnson
L.v. Beethoven: String Trio in G major, Op. 9 No. 1 (25’)
    Acord, Amirinazari, Johnson

Musicians:
Kaleigh Acord, violin and viola
Paran Amirinazari, violin and viola
Trace Johnson, cello

Kaleigh Acord Violinist

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

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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Trace Johnson with Cello

Cellist Trace Johnson is a musician from Madison, Wisconsin. Trace has appeared as a chamber musician, soloist, and orchestral musician in a wide variety of ensembles and settings around the world. Equally at home teaching in the studio or performing on stage, Trace is a devoted and thoughtful communicator who enjoys a varied career as a cellist, teacher, and musician.

Trace holds section cello positions at the Sarasota Orchestra in Sarasota, Florida and the Southwest Florida Symphony in Fort Myers, Florida; in Florida, he has performed with Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble, Sarasota Opera, Miami City Ballet, Palm Beach Symphony, Palm Beach Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Atlantic Classical Orchestra, Boca Symphonia, Orlando Philharmonic, Kravis Pops Orchestra, Symphony of the Americas, Miami Symphony, Orchestra Miami, South Florida Symphony, and the New World Symphony. Trace has also performed with the Fresno Philharmonic in Fresno, California, the Madison Symphony Orchestra in Madison... Read More

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