MEDIA RELEASE July 18, 2005 for Immediate Release Editorial Contact: Kate Scorza Ingram [email protected] (For Editorial Purposes Only)
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MEDIA RELEASE July 18, 2005 For immediate release Editorial Contact: Kate Scorza Ingram [email protected] (for editorial purposes only) Chestnut Hill Concerts presents Irina Muresanu, Hen-Jin Park and Ronald Thomas At 8 p.m. Friday, August 12, 2005, Chestnut Hill Concerts, Ronald Thomas, Artistic Director, presents Beethoven’s Piano Trio No. 2, in E flat, Op.70; Debussy’s Cello Sonata; and Brahms’s Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8. The performers will be: Irina Muresanu, violin; Ronald Thomas, cello; Heng-Jin Park, piano. The concert will be held at the First Congregational Church of Madison (26 Meetinghouse Lane, Madison, CT). Single tickets are $25, $20 and $15, $8 students (Kids Come Free!). Pre-concert picnic suppers prepared by Anna’s (New Haven) are available for $17 each. For information, call (203) 245- 5736 or www.chestnuthillconcerts.org. Chestnut Hill Concerts receives financial support from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Evergreen Woods, Stop & Shop, and Yale-New Haven Hospital. IRINA MURESANU, violin, has won universal acclaim as an outstanding young soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Ms. Muresanu has appeared as a soloist with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Boston Pops, the Metropolitan Orchestra in Montreal, the Boston Phiharmonic, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Romanian National Radio Orchestra, and many others. An active chamber musician, Ms. Muresanu recently joined the Boston Trio, the Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, and the Walden Chamber Players. Ms. Muresanu was a member of the Raphael Trio from 2000 to 2002. Her recent appearances include Bargemusic in New York; the Rockport Festival in Massachusetts; Bay Chambers concert series and Bowdoin Festival in Maine; the Strings in the Mountains festival in Colorado; Reizend Music festival in Netherlands; Festival van de Leie in Belgium; and the Rencotres de Musiciennes in France. Her recordings include an Albany Record premiere recording of Marion Bauer's Sonata for Violin and Piano (with Pianist Virginia Eskin), and a VPRO Radio CD with chamber works of E. Korngold. Ms. Muresanu currently serves on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory, the Prep Division of New England Conservatory of Music, and the Music Department at MIT. She recently completed the prestigious Artist Diploma program at the New England Conservatory. Her violin is an 1856 Joseph Rocca and a Charles Peccat bow courtesy of Mr. Mark Ptashne. HENG-JIN PARK, piano, was born in Korea and raised in the Boston area. She studied at the New England Conservatory of Music with Leonard Shure and Russell Sherman. She made her solo debut with the Boston Pops performing the Schumann Concerto at the age of 15 and has returned to perform as soloist with the Boston Pops since then. She has also performed as a soloist with the New England Philharmonic, L'Orchestre Symphonique Française, and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, appeared on the Fleet Boston Celebrity Series in the Boston Marquee series, and recently collaborated with the Borromeo String Quartet in a performance of the Brahms Piano Quintet. She has appeared in concerts at New York's Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, Ambassador Auditorium in California, Jordan Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Gardner Museum; and at festivals including Taos, Banff, the Ernen Music Festival in Switzerland, and the Rockport Chamber Music Festival. She recently released a CD of the Complete Brahms Sonatas for violin and piano with Eric Rosenblith and the two artists toured Korea in December, 2003. Ms. Park has given master classes at the University of Kansas, the Longy School of Music, Penn State University, Brigham Young University, and has taught chamber music at the Tanglewood Institute. She has been on the faculty of the Yellow Barn Music Festival and currently of the International Musical Arts Institute, New England Conservatory Preparatory School, and M.I.T. Cellist RONALD THOMAS has been Artistic Director of Chestnut Hill Concerts since 1989. Mr. Thomas sustains one of the most active and varied careers in today's music world as performer, teacher, and artistic administrator. His solo appearances with orchestra include the Philadelphia Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Handel & Haydn and Pro Arte Chamber Orchestras of Boston, and the Blossom Festival Orchestra. In great demand as a chamber music collaborator, Ronald Thomas is also the co-founder and artistic director of the Boston Chamber Music Society with whom he appears regularly and has produced a number of highly acclaimed recordings. Mr. Thomas is a member of the Players in Residence committee and the Board of Overseers at Bargemusic in New York City. Ronald Thomas is former member of the faculties at M.I.T., Brown University, the Boston Conservatory and, most recently, the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore where he spent nine years before resigning in 1997 in order to spend more time with his family and the cello. Prior to winning the Young Concert Artists auditions at the age of 19, Mr. Thomas attended the New England Conservatory and the Curtis Institute. His principal teachers were Lorne Munroe, David Soyer, and for early studies, Mary Canberg. ****** For calendar editors: August 12, 2005 at 8 p.m., at the First Congregational Church of Madison (26 Meetinghouse Lane, Madison, CT): Chestnut Hill Concerts presents Beethoven’s Piano Trio No. 2, in E flat, Op.70; Debussy’s Cello Sonata; and Brahms’s Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8. Irina Muresanu, violin; Ronald Thomas, cello; Heng-Jin Park, piano. Tickets $25, 20, 15, $8 students (Kids Come Free!) Pre-concert picnic suppers $17 each. To order, call (203) 245-5736. www.chestnuthillconcerts.org. ###### .