Pianist Eli Kalman and Friends to perform on Pickett Chamber Music Series

Pianist Eli Kalman, with colleagues Bruce Atwell, horn, and Yuliya Smead, violin, will present the fourth and final concert in this year’s Searl Pickett Chamber Music Series on Thursday, November 15.  The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Church Concert Hall, 41 E. Follett Street in Fond du Lac.  Single tickets are $20 and will be sold at the door.  Students are admitted free.

Yuliya Smead

Ukrainian violinist Dr. Yuliya Smead has performed as soloist with the Russian Chamber Orchestra, Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra, and Leopolis Orchestra.  Since coming to the United States in 1999, Smead has served as Concertmaster of the Oshkosh and Fox Valley Symphony Orchestras (positions she currently holds), and Assistant Concertmaster of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. She is the Adjunct Professor of Violin at the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh and teaches at the Lawrence Academy of Music.

Bruce Atwell

Those symptoms cause both disorder of physical function and psychological strain and may also aggravate disease conditions Prostatitis, result in painful diseases to so many patients, seriously affecting the patient’s health and their family line uk viagra life. In fact, if you purchase cialis online didn’t have sex for a longer timeframe. The deal was cheap levitra 20mg financed with cash, shares and loans and was completed on 15th October, 2009. Meanwhile, the veins that usually carry blood away lowest priced cialis from the male reproductive system gets compressed, restricting the blood flow out of the penis.

In demand as a horn player throughout Wisconsin, Bruce Atwell has been Professor of horn at UW-Oshkosh since 1998. He currently performs with the Fox Valley Symphony and the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra. Formerly the  Principal Horn of the Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra, he has also held positions with the Florida Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Dr. Atwell has had solo appearances with the Orlando Philharmonic, the Winter Park Bach Festival, the Ensemble for Eighteenth Century Music, the Oshkosh Symphony, the Fox Valley Symphony, the Green Bay Symphony, and the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic (Russia).

Eli Kalman

Romanian-born Pianist Eli Kalman has performed extensively in Romania, Israel, Germany, Hungary, Japan, United States and Canada. Prior to his teaching appointment at UW-Oshkosh in 2006, he has held educator positions on the piano faculty at the Center of Arts, Mizra in Israel and the Lyceum of Arts, Baia Mare in Romania. He has performed  at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center., on “San Francisco Performances” and “Tuesday Evening Concert Series” in Virginia, on the Emmanuel Music-Schumann Chamber Series in Boston, the Connoisseur Series at Wichita State University, the Myra Hess Series in Chicago, in addition to other venues. He was an enthusiastic artist-in-residence at the Chamber Music Festival at Banff, Canada, and a guest artist for five years at the Token Creek Festival directed by celebrated American composer John Harbison.

 

The program will feature the Brahms’ Trio for Piano, Violin and Horn in E-flat Major, and Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano which was composed by the trio’s horn player, Bruce Atwell. Kalman and Smead will also perform Beethoven’s Sonata for Piano and Violin “Kreutzer,” Op. 47.

Now in its 23rd  season, the Searl Pickett  Series features some of the finest chamber artists and ensembles based in Wisconsin and the Midwest.  The Series was founded by Fond du Lac native Kay Gainacopulos as a tribute to, and in memory of one of Wisconsin’s finest band directors and teachers, Searl Pickett.  A tentative list of artists for the 2019 season  will be announced at the Nov. 15 concert, and early bird season tickets for the 2019 season will be available until December 31.

%d bloggers like this: