Please visit our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Elegua-Duo/91522997510) for the first of several rounds of photos from our tour! We had a delightful time during our stay at Hill & Hollow Music - hosted by the stellar duo that is Angela Brown and Kellum Smith. Our residency included a house concert, three offshoot recitals and, dare we say, a fun recording session with the amazingly talented NCPR Production Manager, Mr. Joel Hurd.
6/16/2011:
Greetings to all beloved Elegua Duo followers and supporters! Ginevra and I are really looking forward to our summer 2011 adventures and would like to keep you posted on some specifics.
Traditionally, we go to the Adirondacks of upstate New York each summer for a week or two, spending the first day or two rehearsing, then touring from town to town, sharing our music with communities in performance. We concertize in a variety of venues, including arts centers, churches, museums, and concert halls. Last summer, we had the pleasure of performing house concerts thanks to various generous patrons requesting to host us throughout the Adirondacks. These concerts naturally generated a fresh, intimate setting for music making for both the duo and our audience.
This summer, we're delighted to participate in a wide array of events. We'll spend the bulk of our concert week in Saranac, New York, where we will be artists in residence at Hill and Hollow retreat, courtesy of Angela Brown (http://www.hillandhollowmusic.com/). During our stay, we will venture out to perform at Uihlein Medical Center on Tuesday 8/2, as well as a house concert at the home of Dorit Gaetke on Wednesday 8/3, both in Lake Placid. We will also perform via the Long Lake Friends of Music at the Long Lake Methodist Church on Thursday 8/4 (http://mylonglake.com/calendar-of-events/), and finish up our week with a Hill and Hollow house concert on Friday 8/5 and recording session with North Country Public Radio on Saturday 8/6, also at Hill and Hollow (links to past recordings: http://search.northcountrypublicradio.org/search?q=elegua+duo&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&filter=0). We will post more event details soon, including performance times and addresses. Ginevra and I are looking forward to an intensive week of rehearsing, performing, seeing friends, and enjoying the beautiful Adirondack mountains.
The duo loves to promote new music. Two summers ago, Ginevra performed a piece by Glens Falls composer John Coolen. Last summer, she and I premiered a piece by our mutual composer friend Chris Porter, currently residing in Los Angeles. This summer, we're thrilled and grateful to perform a piece by my talented friend, former quintet mate, violist, and composer Tim Mauthe. Tim currently is working toward his doctorate in composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Check out his website to learn more about him: www.mauthemusic.com.
I hope you can make it out to hear us. We'd love to see you!
Best wishes,
Claire
5/2011:The Elegua Duo is thrilled to have been selected for a week-long Hill and Hollow Music Artist Retreat in Saranac, NY, from July 31 to August 6, 2011. During this time, we will live in a sprawling 1840's farmhouse in the Saranac Valley of the Adirondack Mountains, and prepare an all-new sonata program for local recitals and an NCPR recording session. Hiking, swimming , and all those other activities of a signature Adirondack summer are also on the agenda! A big thanks to NCPR's Production Manager, Joel Hurd, and Hill and Hollow's director, Angela Brown, for making this fantastic experience possible! We really hope you can join us, and will soon post details regarding dates and places to catch an Elegua Duo performance.
11/14/10:
Our Adirondack touring project is discussed in Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music, by Angela Beeching, and now out on Oxford University Press in its 2nd edition!!
Angela has been a fantastic mentor for the duo on the How-To's of music entrepreneurship, and this book is a no-nonsense guide for the same...what goes in a press kit, branding, financial management, grant-writing, it's all there.
Here's its page on Amazon.com
9/6/10: Upstate New York NPR station NCPR recorded our July 11 concert in Thendara, NY for radio and online play. Here are some excerpts. Enjoy!!
Rachmaninoff's Sonata in G Minor:
6/11/10: New Dates for Summer 2010 Adirondacks Concerts!
Friday, July 9, 2010
Adirondack Medical Center - Uihlein
Lake Placid, NY
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Friday, July 9, 2010
Community Chamber Music Reading
Lake Placid, NY
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Friday, July 9, 2010
Private House Concert
Lake Placid, NY
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Long Lake Wesleyan Church
Long Lake, NY
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Cabin Concert Series
Thendara, NY
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
*to be recorded live by local NPR station, NCPR, for delayed radio and online broadcast
tickets: www.artscenteroldforge.org/pages/page.cfm?fn=Performances
5/26/10: In anticipation of our summer premiere of Caryatid for cello and piano, you can read about Chris Porter's new and intriguing composition on our website's Collaborations page.
5/17/10: It has been a very busy spring for the both of us as we completed our master's degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Music and The New England Conservatory of Music! Highlights of our recent individual concert appearances include a Cialde Quintet recital at The Grand Theatre in Frankfort, KY and a performance with the Haitian-American composer, violinist and band leader Daniel Bernard Roumain of his String Quartet No. 2 "King" in Dover, MA.
We are set to tour the Adirondacks this July with an exciting new program that includes the premiere of a work written for us by the esteemed Los Angeles-area composer and sound designer Chris Porter. Tickets are already on sale for our Sunday, July 11th recital on the Cabin Concert Series in Old Forge, NY. For more information, please visit the following link:
http://www.artscenteroldforge.org/pages/page.cfm?fn=Performances
Check back soon for more news about the tour and the premiere!
12/27/09: The Elegua Duo is booking an eclectic mix of concerts for our summer 2010 season, with appearances from Lake Placid, NY to Falmouth, MA. Dates and details will be forthcoming!
11/1/09: On November 5th, Cellist Ginevra Ventre will be the guest speaker on music entrepreneurship for the New England Conservatory's undergraduate Professional Artist Seminar
November 5, 2009 at 12:00 pm, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA 02115
10/18/09: The Elegua Duo Makes Its Boston Debut!
December 20, 2009 at 8:00 pm, Williams Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA 02115
10/18/09: North Country Public Radio Recording Update
We are delighted that NCPR Production Manager Joel Hurd recorded our Saranac Lake, NY concert this past July. Have a listen at the following link! Two movements from Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata are featured.
8/16/09: Post-Adirondacks Tour Update
We just finished our delightful tour of the Adirondacks, during which we played concerts in towns from Saranac Lake to Lake Placid to Essex, New York. We met some great new friends, and look forward to staying in touch! We had the opportunity to meet Joel Hurd, North Country Public Radio's Production Manager, who expertly recorded our Saranac Lake concert at St. Bernard's Church. We will keep you posted as to when the recording will be broadcast. We also had an especially great time in Essex, where we were hosted by the Essex Community Concert Series, and played an evening recital for a lovely and lively audience. A detour into Vermont was taken the next day for some wine-tasting and blueberry-picking. You can find photos of our adventures on our Elegua Duo Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Elegua-Duo/91522997510. We are currently booking for this winter's concerts, as well as for next summer. We'll update you with the latest as soon as we devise a schedule. In the meantime, we hope you've had a great summer, and hope to meet you on our travels!
Warm regards,
Ginevra and Claire
7/10/09: Winter/Spring/Summer 2009 Concert Dates!
January 6, 2009
Access to the Arts, Cleveland, OH
January 8, 2009
Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
July 28, 2009
8:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church of Glens Falls, Glens Falls, NY
July 29, 2009
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Adirondack Medical Center-Uihlein, Lake Placid, NY
July 30, 2009
6:00-7:00 p.m.
80 Edgewood Road, Saranac Lake, NY
July 30, 2009
8:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
St. Bernard's Church of Saranac Lake, Saranac Lake, NY
*to be recorded live by local NPR station, NCPR, for delayed radio and online broadcast
July 31, 2009
7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Essex Community Concerts, Westport, NY
August 1, 2009
3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Interactive Children's Workshop
August 3-7, 2009
Chamber Music Workshop, Columbus, OH
more to be posted soon!
