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The Crypt Sessions
''The Crypt Sessions'' is a classical music concert series that takes place in the crypt of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City. Created by Andrew Ousley of Unison Media, The Crypt Sessions debuted on November 4, 2015, with American composer and pianist Conrad Tao. Described as one of the “most evocative” and “intimate” spaces for classical music, The Crypt Sessions has presented a variety of performances from contemporary opera, jazz and spoken words, two pianos, string quartet, gospel music, to solo recitals featuring traditional repertoire such as Bach's Goldberg Variations and Complete Cello Suites. Season 1 (2015 - 2016) * Conrad Tao * Lawrence Brownlee * Alexandre Tharaud * Haskell Small * Attacca Quartet * Christina and Michelle Naughton * Matt Haimovitz * The Tell-Tale Heart / Gregg Kallor (World Premiere) Season 2 (2017 - present) * Lara Downes * Conrad Tao (Originally David Greilsammer David Greilsammer (10 August 1977) is a piani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of The Intercession (Manhattan)
The Church of the Intercession is an Episcopal congregation located at 550 West 155th Street, at Broadway, on the border of the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City, on the grounds of Trinity Church Cemetery. The congregation was founded in 1846, and the current sanctuary, built in 1912–1915, was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in the Gothic Revival style. From 1906–1976, it was a chapel of Trinity Church. In 2020, it reported 210 members, no average attendance, and $109,272 in plate and pledge income. The Church of the Intercession and its Tudor Revival vicarage were designated New York City Landmarks in 1966,New York Landmarks Preservation Commissionbr>"Vicarage of the Chapel of the Intercession Designation Report" (August 16, 1966) and the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. History The congregation which became the Church of the Intercession was founded in 1846 in Carmansville, a hamlet whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Ousley
Andrew Ousley (born 1983) is an entrepreneur and creative professional, best known as the founder and artistic director of classical music and opera concert series The Crypt Sessions. Early life and education Ousley was born in New York City, United States, in 1983. He was introduced to opera by his mother, Mary Ousley, at the age of 16. Career In 2015, Ousley founded Unison Media, a public relations and marketing firm. While scouting locations for unconventional performance spaces, Ousley discovered a Crypt Chapel underneath the Church of the Intercession. By the end of 2015, Ousley launched the initial performances of The Crypt Sessions, a classical music concert series held in the Crypt. Ousley has continued to present musical performances at The Church of the Intercession in Manhattan and Green-Wood Cemetery in, with notable invited artists such as The New York Philharmonic, violinist Gil Shaham, opera tenor Lawrence Brownlee, and pianist Conrad Tao. The Crypt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Tao
Conrad Yiwen Tao (born June 11, 1994) is an American composer and pianist and former violinist. Tao's piano and violin performances since childhood brought him early recognition at music festivals and competitions. At age 13, he was featured on the PBS TV series ''From the Top – Live from Carnegie Hall'' as violinist, pianist and composer. He won eight consecutive ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Among his compositions have been commissions by the New York Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony and Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Among other honors, Tao is a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, a Davidson Fellow Laureate and a Gilmore Foundation Young Artist. He was the only classical artist named by ''Forbes'' magazine in 2011 as one of the "30 Under 30" in the music industry. In 2012, Tao released a solo piano EP, ''The Juilliard Sessions: Conrad Tao Plays Debussy and Stravinsky'', and a synthpop album, ''Eyelids''. Several more albums have followe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Brownlee
Lawrence Brownlee (born November 24, 1972) is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire. Describing his voice, Speight Jenkins, general director of the Seattle Opera, said: "There are other singers that sing this repertory very well, but I don't think anyone else has quite as beautiful a sound and as rounded a tone," and praise his "incredible top notes", adding about his high F (F 5) in " Credeasi, misera": "With him it's not a scream, it's a beautiful sound." Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato adds: "He is always in service of the music. His natural instrument is just incredibly beautiful. The word 'honey' comes to mind. He also has technical prowess and agility." Early life and education Brownlee was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He grew up without much exposure to classical music, but had an extremely musical childhood, playing trumpet, guitar and drums, and singing Gospel music in church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Tharaud
Alexandre Tharaud (born 9 December 1968) is a French pianist. He is active on the concert stage and has released a large and diverse discography. Life and career Born in Paris, Tharaud discovered the music scene through his mother who was a dance teacher at the Opéra de Paris, and his father, an amateur director and singer of operettas. Tharaud thus appeared as a child in theatres around northern France, where the family spent many weekends.''Télérama'', n° 3083 du 11 février 2009, p. 14. Propos recueillis par Bernard Mérigaud His grandfather was a violinist in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. At the initiative of his parents, Alexandre started his piano studies at the age of five, and he entered Conservatory of the 14th Arrondissement, where his teacher was Carmen Taccon-Devenat, a student of Marguerite Long. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 14 where he won first prize for piano in the class of Germaine Mounier when he was 17 years old. With Theodor Parask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haskell Small
Haskell "Hal" Small, born 3 June 1948, is a composer, pianist, and music teacher in Washington, D.C. Musical background After starting college as a science and engineering major, Haskell Small began his musical education at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and earned a BFA in music from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1972, where he studied piano under Harry Frankin and composition under Roland Leich. Subsequently, he studied composition privately under Vincent Persichetti, and studied piano privately under Theodore Lettvin, Leon Fleisher and William Masselos. Masselos continued as Small's teacher until his death in 1992. In addition to his mastery of the standard classical repertoire, including works by Beethoven, Scarlatti and Schubert, Small played in rock and roll bands during his college years, and he integrates blues, jazz and other modern and postmodern idioms into his compositions. Pianist Small has given concerts in major European capitals, South Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina And Michelle Naughton
Christina and Michelle Naughton are twin sisters and an American piano duo. Early life and education Christina and Michelle Naughton were born in Princeton, New Jersey on September 2, 1988, to parents of European and Chinese ancestry. Raised in Madison, Wisconsin, they began taking piano lessons from their mother at the age of four. Although the sisters initially practiced and performed individually, a concert presenter's request that they perform together as a duo when they were 18 highlighted their remarkable talent and marked the beginning of a preference for making music together. The sisters were trained at the Curtis Institute of Music and at the Juilliard School. They earned bachelor's degrees in solo piano performance in 2011 at Curtis, where they both received the Festorazzi Prize. They earned master's degrees from Juilliard in 2013. Pianist Joseph Kalichstein taught the sisters at Juilliard and remarked, "When they play together, they seem to have one mind and one body ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Haimovitz
Matt Haimovitz (born December 3, 1970) is a cellist based in the United States and Canada. Born in Israel, he grew up in the US from the age of five. He plays mainly a cello made by Matteo Goffriller in 1710. Family, musical education and early career Matt Haimovitz was born in the Israeli town of Bat Yam as son of Meir and Marlena Haimovitz, a Jewish couple who moved to Israel from Romania. When he was 5 years old, the family settled in Palo Alto, California. Haimovitz began to study the cello at the age of seven with Irene Sharp in California. At the age of nine, he switched teachers to Gábor Reitő. When Haimovitz was twelve years old, Itzhak Perlman, who was impressed by his performances at a music camp in Santa Barbara, introduced him to Leonard Rose. In order for him to study with Rose at the Juilliard School, his family moved to New York in 1983. Haimovitz attended high school at Collegiate School (New York City) on the Upper West Side. Rose described Haimovitz as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Greilsammer
David Greilsammer (10 August 1977) is a pianist and Conductor (music), conductor. Biography David Greilsammer is the eldest of five brothers, and lives nowadays between Paris, Geneva and Medellín. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York City, as a student of pianist Yoheved Kaplinsky. At Juilliard, he received a Bachelor and Master’s degree, and later on he studied with American pianist Richard Goode, in New York. In 2004, David Greilsammer made his debut at Lincoln Center in New York, in a performance that was praised by The New York Times. He then signed his first recording contract with Vanguard Records, releasing his first album, dedicated to Mozart's Early Piano Concertos, which he played and conducted. It is at that period of his life that he started appearing also as a conductor, in addition to his engagements as pianist. Shortly after his first album was released, David Greilsammer started performing in a variety of concert halls and festivals internationally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Roman
Joshua Roman (born December 16, 1983) is an American cellist. Background An Oklahoma native, Joshua Roman attended the Cleveland Institute of Music. At CIM, he studied with Richard Aaron and Desmond Hoebig. Roman received his Bachelor of Music Degree in Cello Performance in 2004, and his master's degree in 2005. At the age of 22, Roman was appointed principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in 2006, becoming the youngest principal player in Seattle Symphony history. In 2006, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called Roman's premiere performance an "auspicious beginning," noting that "Roman played with ease and confidence, the sound relaxed and singing, the phrasing shapely, the tone well projected seemingly without effort." In 2007, Melinda Bargreen of the Seattle Times noted that Roman "played with heart-stopping beauty... nd his"big, succulent tone and impassioned style perfectly suited the music." In January 2008, Roman submitted his resignation as principal cell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Puts
Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer, best known for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera, ''Silent Night''. Early life and education Puts was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Alma, Michigan. He studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman School of Music. Among his teachers were Samuel Adler, Jacob Druckman, David Lang, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, and, in piano, Nelita True. He also studied at the Tanglewood Music Festival with William Bolcom and Bernard Rands. Career He is composer-in-residence at the Fort Worth Symphony and has received a commission from the Aspen Music Festival. His Cello Concerto was premiered by Yo-Yo Ma. Puts's works have been performed by the St. Louis Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Utah Symphony (with Evelyn Glennie as percussion soloist), the Miró Quartet, and Concert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Of Classical
Death of Classical is a classical music concert series founded by Andrew Ousley, best known for its unconventional approach to concert presentation, often holding them in distinctive and non-traditional venues. These locations have included Gothic crypt beneath the Church of the Intercession in Manhattan and the catacombs of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. History Death of Classical was founded by Andrew Ousley, a music enthusiast and the son of an opera singer, with the primary goal of rejuvenating the classical music landscape. Ousley's vision for the series emerged from a desire to challenge the conventional perception of classical music as elitist or dull, with the self-stated intention to rekindle interest and broaden the appeal of the art form by introducing it to new audiences. One of the defining features of the series is its distinctive choice of venues, which depart from the traditional concert hall setting. These venues have included the Gothic crypt beneath the Chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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