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Con Brio Returns to Chapel of Our Lady Restoration
By popular demand, the Con Brio Ensemble, Diana Mittler- Battipaglia, piano, Andre Emelianoff, cello, and Anton Miller, violin, play another return engagement in the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration, Sunday, October 7. The concert, free to the public, is at 4.
An elegiac piece, Circulo, suggesting also the swagger of flamenco and the bullring and written on the eve of the Spanish Civil War by Spanish composer Joaquin Turina, begins the program. The group will follow with Chausson's Trio in G minor and Tchaikovsky's Trio in A minor.
Mr. Emelianoff has appeared as soloist in New York and abroad. He has opened the Salzburg Mozarteum Academy Summer Course and appeared as artist-faculty at the Beijing International Music Festival as well as at the Summit Festival. He has toured Central Asia and the Mediterranean as an American Ambassador for the Arts, sponsored by USIA, and has given master classes in Israel, Korea and Shanghai as artist-faculty of the Perlman Program. Having won a Fulbright to study in Paris, he elected instead to join the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and Pierre Boulez and later was principal cellist with the New York Chamber Symphony. His principal interest is the music of living composers, and he has premiered works too numerous to mention, many with the award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players. He is on the faculty of Juilliard, where he did his studies.
Mr. Miller, who plays a violin made around 1780 by Nicolo Gagliano, debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1992 with the New Chamber Orchestra of New York and has since appeared throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Asia and Latin America. He has been on the faculty of Oberlin College Conservatory and is currently on the faculty of Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, Connecticut, and New York University. He has taught at a number of summer programs, including Aria International in Canada, Musicorda in South Hadley, Massachusetts, and the New Arts Festival, Fort Myers, Florida. He received his BA from Indiana University and Master of Music degree from Juilliard.
Dr. Mittler-Battipaglia, cofounder of Con Brio, was featured in the 2007 documentary movie, Last Stop, Kew Gardens. Her recital debut was in 1977 in New York City, and she has since performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the New Haven Symphony and a number of community orchestras, as well as in chamber music concerts and broadcasts. She has also performed at the Mozarteum Academy Summer Course in Salzburg. Currently professor of music and choral director at Lehman College of The City University of New York, she performs regularly with the Lehman Chamber Players and has been featured on 1010 WINS radio's Good for New York series. She received both BS and MS degrees from Juilliard and her doctorate from Eastman School of Music. Her piano teachers have included Jane Carlson, Eugene List, Edward Steuermann, and her parents, Regina and Franz Mittler. Her biography of her father, Franz Mittler: Austro- American Composer, Musician and Humorous Poet, was published in 1994.
The chapel is located at 45 Market Street, Cold Spring. Free parking is available on weekends at the adjacent Metro North Train Station. The music series is partially funded by the Putnam Arts Fund, supported by public funds from the county and administered by the Putnam Arts Council. Contributions are welcome.
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