Read this great article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune by Susan Rife.
Posts Tagged ‘Historic Asolo Theater’
Spotlight on an Artist: Anne-Marie McDermott
Friday, July 17th, 2009Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Chamber Music
Anne-Marie McDermott is a consummate artist who balances a versatile career as a soloist and collaborator. She performs over 100 concerts a year in a combination of solo recitals, concerti and chamber music. Her repertoire choices are eclectic, spanning from Bach and Haydn to Prokofiev and Scriabin to Kernis, Hartke, Tower and Wuorinen.
McDermott debuted with the New York Philharmonic in 1997 under Christian Thielemann and has since appeared with the orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. In the 2008-2009 season, McDermott will perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, North Carolina Symphony, Alabama Symphony, San Diego Symphony, the Oregon Mozart Players, and tour with the New Century Chamber Orchestra.
A winner of the Young Concert Artists Auditions, McDermott was also the recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Development Award, the Andrew Wolf Memorial Chamber Music Award, the Joseph Kalichstein Piano Prize, the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize, the Bruce Hungerford Memorial Prize, and the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women Artists. McDermott has recorded the complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, Bach English Suites and Partitas (named Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice), and Gershwin Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra with the Dallas Symphony and Justin Brown.
For more information visit Opus 3 Artists.
Venue Spotlight: The Historic Asolo Theater
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009One of the venues at the Ringling International Arts Festival will be the Historic Asolo Theater. Ella Hickson, Peter Brook / C.I.T.C., and Chamber Music Programs A & B are scheduled to perform in the Historic Asolo.
An 18th-century treasure in a 21st-century venue, the Historic Asolo Theater is a work of art in its own right. The palace playhouse was created in Asolo, Italy in 1798 to honor the 15th-century exiled Queen Catherine Cornaro of Cyprus. In the late 1940s, the theater was dismantled and brought to the Ringling Estate.
In 2006, after years of painstaking restoration, the 265-seat theater was reset in the John M. McKay Visitors Pavilion just inside the historic Cà d’Zan Gatehouse on the Ringling Museum estate. All levels are wheelchair accessible.
Chamber Music
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Mason Bates
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Edward Arron, cello
Eric Ruske, horn
Program A
C. Debussy, Sonata for Violin and Piano
Mason Bates, Horn Trio (world premiere);
F. Mendelssohn, Piano Trio in D Minor, op. 49
Thursday, Oct 8: 8:00 p.m.
Friday, Oct 9: 5:30 p.m.
Historic Asolo Theater
Tickets: $30, $25, $20, $10
Program B
Mason Bates, Horn Trio
A. Dvořák, Piano Trio in F Minor, op. 65
Saturday, Oct 10: 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct 11: 11:00 a.m.
Historic Asolo Theater
Tickets: $30, $25, $20, $10
These hour-long programs of masterworks of chamber music include a new addition to the horn trio repertoire by the acclaimed composer Mason Bates. These works are performed by an exceptional ensemble of internationally renowned musicians – pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, violinist Jennifer Frautschi, cellist Edward Arron, and French horn player Eric Ruske. Mason Bates music has been performed by The National Symphony Orchestra (both at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall), San Francisco Symphony, and the Atlanta and Phoenix Symphonies.
“At a time when symphony orchestras nationwide are trolling for audience magnets – the type of new material that can lure members of generations X and Y along with older subscribers – Bates just might have that bait.” – The Los Angeles Times
Mason Bates’ new work is commissioned by the Ringling International Arts Festival.
Ella Hickson
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Ella Hickson
Ella Hickson
Eight
Thursday, Oct 8: 5:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct 9: 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct 10: 10:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct 11: 2:00 p.m.
Historic Asolo Theater
Tickets: $30, 25, $20, $10
Ella Hickson’s debut play Eight swept the major awards at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including a Fringe First and the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award. Eight delivers a rich portrait of modern Britain through a collection of incisive monologues from characters ranging from a single working mother to a young Iraq war veteran. Exquisitely tuned to the inner voices of her characters, Hickson balances biting humor with emotional honesty as she assesses what it means to be part of the current generation. Eight’s cast will include young actors from the UK and students from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training.
“One of the most self-assured, startlingly well-written and moving pieces of theatre around.” – The Herald, Scotland
“[Ella Hickson] writes with a heightened sense of the rhythms and quirks of everyday speech and uses vivid, sensory details to create believable emotional states.” – The New York Times
Peter Brook / C.I.T.C.
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Bruce Myers
Peter Brook / C.I.T.C.
Love is my sin (U.S. Premiere)
Based on sonnets by W. Shakespeare
Featuring Natasha Parry and Bruce Myers
Thursday, Oct 8: 2:00 p.m.
Friday, Oct 9: 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, Oct 10: 2:00 & 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, Oct 11: 5:30 p.m.
Historic Asolo Theater
Tickets: $30, $25, $20, $10
Peter Brook—considered to be one of the most influential stage directors alive—brings Shakespeare’s sonnets to life in his newest production. Performed by long-time collaborators Bruce Myers and Natasha Parry, Love is my sin reveals Shakespeare’s sonnets as intimate diaries: a key to his passions and jealousies, and his private questions about time, aging, and death. Reveling in the intense beauty of Shakespeare’s language, Brook continues his experiment in reducing theater to its essential form.
“For Peter Brook, theater is always an idea that is enriched by research, elaborated in rehearsal and then reduced to its essence onstage.” – The New York Times
“…the direction of Peter Brook is the real revelation. It may seem simple and unadorned to the point of invisibility, but you soon realize that every moment has been calibrated to deliver the maximum dose of truth.” - The Toronto Star (on Sizwe Banzi is Dead)
