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Apollo's Fire
{baroque ensemble}

- Performing -

Sunday
September 19, 2010
5 in the evening

Presented at
Christ Church Episcopal
sponsored by
The Tobin Fund for Culture, Arts and Preservation, a fund of Hudson Community Foundation
 


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- Performing -

Sunday
October 17, 2010
5 in the evening

Presented in
The Chapel
on the campus of
Western Reserve Academy
sponsored by
Hudson Community Foundation

 

Andrew Sords
{violin}
Already a veteran of the concert stage, violinist Andrew Sords catapulted to international exposure in 2008 as a Top-40 artist, and top story, on Google Classical News. To quote maestro Sidney Harth, “Andrew Sords is an exciting new voice in the classical music world. His imaginative musicality and consummate technique have
secured him a very bright future...”

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PROGRAM:
Accompanied by Anita Pontremoli
Franck - Sonata in A major
Chopin - Nocturne in c-sharp minor
Ysaye - Fugato from Sonata No. 1 (unaccompanied)
Ravel - Tzigane

ANDREW SORDS
Violinist Andrew Sords has established himself as the preeminent new face of classical violin. Already a veteran of the concert stage, Sords has recently toured with the Brahms, Bruch, Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky violin concerti to critical acclaim. He is the winner of the 2005 National Shirley Valentin Violin Award, the 2004 and 2005 National Federation of Music Clubs Competition, the Fortnightly Music Club of Cleveland and the Festival de la Orquesta Sinfonica de las Americas Competition of the Casals Festival among others. The 2009-2010 season will showcase the concerti of Beethoven, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert and Tchaikovsky.

Sords completed his undergraduate education at the Cleveland Institute of Music with violin pedagogues Linda Cerone and David Russell, and performed for the legendary Midori in masterclasses in New York and at the University of Southern California. Most recently, Sords studied under internationally acclaimed violinist Chee-Yun at The Southern Methodist University of Dallas, Texas. Having been exposed to the international stage, Sords has performed in American concert halls and venues in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia.

ANITA PONTREMOLI
Head, Collaborative Piano Department, received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano from CIM. She completed special studies in piano literature and chamber music at Yale University College of Music and the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milano, Italy. She has performed with internationally renowned artists including Lynn Harrell, Arnold Steinhardt, Aaron Rosand and Dale Clevenger, as well as Cleveland Orchestra artists and gifted younger musicians entering outstanding careers. She is also the head of collaborative piano for the Scotia Festival of Music in Halifax, Canada and held the same position at the ENCORE School for Strings. She was appointed to the CIM faculty in 1977.

 
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