Ooh, this is going to be smooth and sweet.

Free Bach Guitar Concert this Friday featuring award-winning soloist Dan Lippel


Art House Productions
proudly co-presents

Con Vivo
BACH FESTIVAL

Featuring Guitarist
DAN LIPPEL

Friday, February 19th @ 8pm * FREE



Program: Lute Suite #3 in A minor BWV995 JS Bach
Partita in B minor BWV 1002 (orig. violin) JS Bach
Selected Songs by John Dowland, with Karim Sulayman, tenor

ABOUT DANIEL LIPPEL:
Guitarist Daniel Lippel is an award-winning soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. Recent performances include Helsinki's Musica Nova Festival, the Macau International Music Festival in China, a solo tour of Germany, recitals in Istanbul, Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York, a performance of a concertino banjo part with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and on the Mostly Mozart Festival at New York's Alice Tully Hall. Daniel is a member of ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) and Flexible Music. He has worked with such eminent composers of our time as Mario Davidovsky, Magnus Lindberg, and Augusta Read Thomas, and performed in a Carnegie Hall celebration of Elliott Carter's music conducted by Oliver Knussen. Daniel has commissioned and premiered over fifty works by established and emerging composers, many of which he has recorded on his independent label, New Focus Recordings. As a member of the indie rock group Mice Parade, he has toured several continents and recorded extensively. Daniel received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the Manhattan School of Music.

ABOUT KARIM SULAYMAN:
Quickly garnering attention for his ?beautiful voice that is warm and rich,? and ?acting of the highest and most fascinating quality? (Asheville-Citizen Times), tenor Karim Sulayman displays his versatility in a vast repertoire that spans baroque to contemporary. In the 2009-10 season, he returns to Opera Lafayette for performances of Lope Tocho and Fermier in Philidor?s Sancho Pan?a at the Kennedy Center and the Mansfield Symphony Mozart?s Mass in C. He also sings further performances of Bernstein?s Candide Suite with the Boise Philharmonic. Last season, he joined New York City Opera?s VOX festival for excerpts of Jonathan Dawe?s Armide, which he premiered in the previous season at Carnegie?s Zankel Hall with the American Composers Orchestra. Mr. Sulayman is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music where he received his Bachelor of Music with high distinction and received his Master of Music from Rice University?s Shepherd School of Music.


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