Sun., Sept. 24, 2006, 4pm, Trinity On Main, New Britain

"Anniversaries" Gala Concert and Dinner
Mozart: Violin Conc. in G, Piano Conc. in d, K.466, more...
Neal Larrabee, Katalin Viszmeg, New Britain Chorale

More Info...      Full press release here...(PDF)

Concert Program:
All Mozart Program:
Rondo in C-Major
Violin Concerto in G-major, K. 216
Piano Concerto in d-minor, K. 466
Symphony No. 40 in g-minor

Gala Dinner will follow the concert at 6 PM.
(The cost of the Dinner is $80 per person).

Artists:

Katalin Viszmeg is a native of Mako, Hungary. She started her musical studies at an early age and earned her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Budapest at the prestigious Franz Liszt Music Academy. She received third prize in the Hungarian National Violin Solo Competition, was awarded the Special Prize in the Hungarian National Chamber Music Competition and won the 2004 Paranov Competition.
As a soloist she has performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Bela Bartok Youth Orchestra as well as Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and Beethoven's violin concerto with various ensembles throughout Hungary. Since age 12 she has appeared in the Hungarian National Radio as a soloist and chamber musician.
She has completed an Artist Diploma as part of the prestigious 20/20 chamber music program under the guidance of Mickey Reisman and Anthea Kreston at the Hartt School.
She is also concertmistress of the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and member of the Sylveen String Quartet, which had its Carnegie Hall debut in October 2004. Katalin Viszmeg is presently on the faculty of the Hartt School Community Division.

 
Neal Larrabee, pianist, has concertised extensively in the United States and Europe. He has performed in major music centers including New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow. His appearances as recitalist and as soloist with orchestras have won critical acclaim. Nominated by the United States Information Service for performing under the auspices of the American embassies, Larrabee has toured Germany, Russia, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. In Poland, Larrabee has become a well-known favorite of the concert-going public. There, his highly regarded interpretations of Chopin have led to recordings, national broadcasts on television and radio, and engagements in virtually every major concert hall. Invited for return engagements in Moscow, he performed at the Moscow Conservatory's Rachmaninoff Hall, the Moscow State University, and for the concert series presented at the U.S. Ambassador's Spaso House.Awarded a Fulbright grant for study at the Moscow Conservatory under Stanislav Neuhaus, Larrabee became the first American pianist to study in the former Soviet Union under official government sponsorship. He also studied with Eugene List at the Eastman School of Music and with Rosina Lhevinne at the Juilliard School where he was awarded the Josef Lhevinne Scholarship. He earned his doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook under Martin Canin. Larrabee has won honors in the Fifth International Tchaikowsky Competition in Moscow and the Ninth International Chopin Competition in Warsaw; and was the first pianist to have been awarded the Artur Rubenstein Medal as winner of the Young Musician's Foundation Competition in Los Angeles. Currently, he is a member of the music performance faculty at the University of Connecticut.