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Duo Cello Recital at Howland Center
On April 22, the Howland Chamber Music Circle will present a duo concert by two cellists already well known and admired by its audience - Clancy Newman and Raman Ramakrishnan.
In 2001 Clancy Newman won the coveted First Prize at the prestigious Walter W. Naumburg Competition which presented him in recital at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, a performance that garnered enormous critical acclaim. He was also named the recipient of a 2004 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and as such appeared on A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. A winner also of Astral Artistic Services' 2000 National Auditions, he was the first Astral artist presented in recital in Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the performing Arts, which was broadcast on NPR's Performance Today.
Mr. Newman began playing the cello at age six, and at twelve he received his first significant public recognition when he won the Gold Medal for Strings at the Dandenong Youth Festival in Australia, competing against instrumentalists twice his age. Early on he also developed an interest in composition and included the world premiere of one of his works in this concert.
Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan is a member of the Daedalus Quartet, winner of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition. He performed with the quartet coast to coast in the United States and Canada, in Japan and across Europe and just recently at the Howland Center. Raman has given solo recitals in New York and Boston and has performed chamber music on Caramoor's Rising Stars series and at numerous other festivals. He is also a member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble.
For their concert at the Howland Center the cellists have chosen a program of music from the Baroque to today. The Sonata in C Major by Josef Bodin de Boismortier, a Duet, Op. 156 by Friedrich August Kummer and the Divertimento No. 1 in G minor by Giacomo Cervetto and an arrangement of Mozart's Sonata for Bassoon and Cello. The performers themselves have arranged Fritz Kreisler's Liebesleid and selections from violin duets by Bela Bartok and will also present the World Premiere of a Duet by Clancy Newman.
The concert will take place on Sunday April 22, at 4pm at the Howland Center, 477 Main Street, Beacon, and will be followed by a reception to meet the artists.
Tickets at $25 ($12 for students) can be reserved by calling 297-9243.
Information on this and other presentations by the Howland Chamber Music Circle can also be found on its Web site www.howlandmusic.org
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