Photo Flash: PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY Closes 10th Season
PREFORMANCES with Allison Charney closed out its exciting 10th season on Monday, May 6th at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center with MAY FLOWERS - featuring a star-studded roster including series' founder, soprano Allison Charney, tenor Errin Brooks, counter-tenor Jeffrey Mandelbaum, flutists Tara Helen O'Connor and Marya Martin, cellist Rupei Yeh and pianists Keith Chambers, Helen Huang and Donna Weng Friedman.
Photo Flash: PREFORMANCES with Allison Charney Presents CHAMBER MUSIC: THEN AND NOW
PREFORMANCES with Allison Charney presented its matinee concert: 'Chamber Music: Then and Now' on Monday, March 11th at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center with a plethora of chamber music luminaries, including the Neave Trio, cellist Susan Salm and pianists Reiko Uchida and Benjamin Loeb, performing together with series founder, soprano Allison Charney and collaborative pianist, Craig Ketter.
dell'Arte Opera Ensemble Slates 15th Annual Summer Festival at La MaMa
dell'Arte Opera Ensemble presents its 2017 UNTAMED! Opera Festival from August 12-27, 2017, as a summer share in downtown New York City's La MaMa Theatre. Spotlighting the unpredictable, wild characters of opera, this year's Festival explores parallels between human, animal and supernatural realms.
dell'Arte Opera Ensemble Slates 15th Annual Summer Festival at La MaMa
dell'Arte Opera Ensemble presents its 2017 UNTAMED! Opera Festival from August 12-27, 2017, as a summer share in downtown New York City's La MaMa Theatre. Spotlighting the unpredictable, wild characters of opera, this year's Festival explores parallels between human, animal and supernatural realms.
Photo Flash: PREformance's With Allison Charney
“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.” The poetry of Henry David Thoreau and the music of Moshe Knoll and Michael Ching, Verdi, Mascagni and Cavalli soared Monday April 3rd from the JCC Manhattan' New York classical music series 'PREformances with Allison Charney.'
ARK Trio returns to PREformances with Allison Charney
The ARK Trio returns to the classical concert series "PREformances with Allison Charney" on Monday April 3rd where they first "preformed" in anticipation of their NYC inaugural concert "Love Resounding" earlier this year. The ARK Trio's commitment to contemporary classical works evidenced by their presentation of six world premieres, was praised by Broadway World who noted "In a city where even the most revered classical music institutions offer new works in relatively small doses, this intrepid program, 'Love Resounding' was noteworthy entirely because it presented a complete program of new classical works."
Tenor Todd Wilander, Countertenor Jeffrey Mandelbaum and the ARK Trio Take the Stage in PREFORMANCES WITH ALLISON CHARNEY 4/3 in NYC
On Monday April 3rd, at 12:30 PM, the New York classical music series "PREformances with Allison Charney" will present Metropolitan Opera stars' tenor Todd Wilander and countertenor Jeffrey Mandelbaum in a scintillating concert of arias and duets from masterworks by Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi. The program will also feature contemporary classical compositions for voice, cello and piano by Michael Ching and Moshe Knoll, performed by musicians of the ARK Trio, soprano Allison Charney, cellist Kajsa William-Olsson and pianist Reiko Uchida. Also featured will be PREformances collaborative pianist Craig Ketter. The concert takes place at the JCC Manhattan, home to the intimate 150 seat Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Auditorium and the Lambert Center for Arts + Ideas.