Kallos Chamber Music Series | Rhythms of Life

This event offers general admission seating in the New Haven Lawn Club Ballroom. Doors open for a pre-concert reception at 7:00 PM and general admission ticket holders are welcome to claim an unreserved seat in the ballroom at this time. In addition to the pre-concert reception, refreshments will also be available during intermission. All refreshments and off-street parking in the New Haven Lawn Club lot are complimentary.

There will be limited reserved seating in front for concert series sponsors and their guests. To inquire about sponsorship and reserved seating please email the New Haven Lawn Club Preservation Trust (nhlcptrust@gmail.com).

Rhythms of Life

Our second concert entitled ‘Rhythms of Life’ draws inspiration from dance - an art form in which the human body becomes a medium for sensing, understanding, and communicating ideas, emotions, and experiences. This program of piano four hand dance music by Moszkowski, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Ravel, Brahms and Khachaturian features a variety of rhythmic patterns found in waltzes, Spanish dances, and even the sword dance!

“Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. It’s the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.” -Jacques d’Amboise

PROGRAM

One Piano | Four Hands

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Barcarolle, Scherzo, Valse from 6 Morceaux, Op. 11

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Mephisto Waltz

Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) 5 Spanish Dances Op 12

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Waltzes, Op. 39

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) La Valse

Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) Sabre Dance

ARTISTS

Min Young Kang, piano

. . . an absolute gem - Montecito Journal

Korean-born pianist Min Young Kang enjoys a versatile career as a chamber musician, collaborative pianist, and music director. For the past ten years, Min Young has performed in concerts and recitals throughout the United States, France, and South Korea, at venues that include Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Château de Fontainebleau, and the Sejong Center M Theater. A prize winner at both the J.C. Arriaga Chamber Music Competition and Artur Balsam Duo Competition, Kang has also been recognized with numerous awards and scholarships, including the Talisman Energy Emerging Artist Award, Kraeuter Musical Foundation Award, Prix special du Directeur and Prix de Musique de chambre from Ecoles D’Art Americaines de Fontainbleau, the Renee and Richard Hawley Scholarship and the Manhattan School of Music’s President’s Award Scholarship. More . . .

Marco Scolastra, piano

The Italian pianist Marco Scolastra studied at the Conservatory “F. Morlacchi” in Perugia with Franco Fabiani, graduating magna cum laude. He furthered his studies with Aldo Ciccolini and Ennio Pastorino, and also attended several masterclasses, with Lya De Barberiis, Paul Badura-Skoda, Dario De Rosa and - at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena - with Joaquin Achucarro and Katia Labèque.

Marco Scolastra has performed with numerous renowned chamber orchestras for the most distinguished Italian music institutions, such as: Ravello Festival, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Oratorio del Gonfalone, Teatro dell’Opera, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Teatro Regio in Parma, Auditorium Verdi in Milan, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Teatro San Carlo in Napoli, “Cappella Sistina”. Furthermore, the appreciated soloist has performed in Austria (Musikverein/Vienna), Spain, Switzerland (Tonhalle and ZKO-Haus/Zurich, Konzerthaus/Bern), Canada (Montreal), Rumania (Cluj, where he played the national première of the Concert for two pianos and orchestra by Poulenc), Russia (Conservatory Cajkovskij/Moscow), Poland (Institute Chopin/Warsaw), Belgium (Festival van Vlaanderen), France (Orchestre National du Capitole/Toulouse), Japan, Germany, U.S.A.

Marco Scolastra has also collaborated with various Italian and foreign orchestras: Saratov Philharmonic Orchestra, New Art Ensemble, Transylvania State Symphonic Orchestra, I Solisti Veneti (Claudio Scimone), Orchestra Sinfonica Verdi di Milano (Richard Hickox), Zurich Chamber Orchestra (Howard Griffits), Berliner Symphoniker (Lior Shambadal), Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Andrew Constantine), Moscow Soloists (Yuri Bashmet), Wiener Concert-Verein.

Marco Scolastra regularly plays with highly esteemed artists, in particular: Vadim Brodski, Renato Bruson, Alessandro Carbonare, Max René Cosotti, Roberto Fabbriciani, Arnoldo Foà, Fejes Quartet, Corrado Giuffredi, Sumi Jo, Raina Kabaivanska, Daniela Mazzucato, Quartetto d’Archi del Teatro di San Carlo, Kodály Quartet, Mirco Palazzi, Marianna Pizzolato, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Desirée Rancatore, Charlie Siem.