Go behind the scenes for informal open rehearsals with the Willy Street Chamber Players at Arts + Literature Laboratory on Thursday, July 19, 2018, 5-9pm! The Willy Street Chamber Players are a group of graduates of the UW School of Music who have strong ties to the east side of Madison. Don't miss this unique opportunity to see how a professional classical concert is prepared and rehearsed; this is a working rehearsal, so there will be stopping and starting, interruptions, repetitions, and funny remarks from the musicians. Drop in and out as you please, watch the musicians work, explore the exhibition at ALL, and relax to some beautiful music. Admission is free and open to the public. Thanks to Three Sheeps Brewery for sponsoring this event.
Willy Street Chamber Players
Violinist and Wisconsin native Beth Larson is a diverse violinist with extensive experience as an orchestral performer, chamber musician, and educator. Beth received her Undergraduate Degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied under David Perry.
After completing her degree, Beth moved to Chicago to act as both Assistant Concertmaster and Principal Second Violin during her two-year fellowship with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. She also founded and performed regularly with the Allium String Quartet in recitals and private performances throughout the city. Beth recently traveled to Japan to perform as Concertmaster with the Pacific Music Festival. She has also performed at the Aspen Music Festival and the Kent/Blossom Music Festival and studied under Paul Kantor, Steve Rose, and members of the Miami String Quartet while in attendance at these esteemed institutions.
Now residing in Madison, Beth is acting as Associate Concertmaster of the Madison... Read More
Chicago-based violinist Eleanor Bartsch is the Concertmaster of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, Associate Concertmaster of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, a former member of both the Madison Symphony and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestras, and an active chamber musician throughout the United States. Ms. Bartsch is a performing member of the Chicago Philharmonic/Joffrey Ballet Orchestra, frequently serving as Concertmaster, Associate Concertmaster, and Principal Second Violin. She also recently joined the roster of The Chicago Ensemble--one of the city's premier chamber music groups for over 40 years. Ms. Bartsch has also performed regularly with the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Bach Dancing and Dynamite, Midsummer Music Festival, the Grant Park Festival Orchestra, the Milwaukee, Nashville and Cincinnati Symphonies, and the Minnesota Orchestra.
A champion of new music, Ms. Bartsch has worked with many well-known living composers including... 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.
A native... Read More
Violinist/Violist Rachel Hauser has been a tenured member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra since 2007. She also plays with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the South Florida Symphony Orchestra, the Lacrosse Symphony Orchestra and the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra where she previously served as Principal 2nd Violin. As a chamber musician, Ms. Hauser has been featured in recitals throughout the world including France, Holland, Finland and Italy. She has twice performed as a guest artist on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s faculty recital series and is a founding member of the Willy Street Chamber Players. Additionally, she has been featured in multiple live chamber music recitals on Wisconsin Public Radio and her recordings with the Willy Street Chamber Players are broadcast regularly throughout the state.
Dividing her time between Madison and New York City, Ms. Hauser recently performed at Bargemusic’s “Here and Now” series, the Queens Library Concert Series and... Read More
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
Lindsey Crabb is an active chamber and orchestral musician in Madison and is a member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the Willy Street Chamber Players. She has also collaborated with other Madison area groups such as Clocks in Motion, the Pro Arte Quartet, Theater LILA, and the American Players Theater. She devotes much of her time to teaching, serving as a chamber music coach for WYSO, maintaining a private cello studio with students of all ages and levels, and teaching with Music con Brio, an after-school non-profit strings program designed to reach students who may not normally have access to music lessons. Eager to travel and work with musicians from around the world, Lindsey has spent time studying with Heidi Litschauer at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, participated in summer masterclasses in Austria and Italy, and taught at a summer music camp in Haiti. She holds degrees from Lawrence University (BM) and the Eastman School of Music (MM) where she studied with... Read More
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Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.
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