The Chamber Music at the Gallery series will continue on October 28, 2012 with Soprano Eileen Strumpel and pianist Sylvie Beaudette. The concert is at 5 PM with a reception to follow. Tickets are available at the door for $10. Eileen and Sylvie last appeared at the gallery 2 years ago to a standing ovation. Their performance was truly a treat.
Presidential Scholar in the Arts Eileen Strempel "is very striking, overpowering, exacting, and musical... a magnificent coloratura, a lyrical soprano," raved the Associated Press about the young soprano, for her Bolshoi Opera debut as Violetta in La Traviata. Ms. Strempel has won numerous competitions: first prize of the Loren Zachary Vocal Competition, both prestigious Sullivan Awards, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, the Liederkranz as well as the Enrico Caruso Vocal Competition. This last victory led to an acclaimed recital at Casa Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Italy as well as a concert in the historical opera house of Imola, Italy. Ms. Strempel is an alumna of the Jerome Hine's Opera Music Theater International as well as the Eastman School of Music and holds a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University. She has taken part in the American Music Festival of the New York Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, and her Avery Fisher Hall debut was as the soprano soloist for the Bach b Minor Mass with the National Chorale. Ms. Strempel has performed with Indianapolis Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Syracuse Opera, the Berkeley Early Music Festival, the Chautauqua and Skaneateles Music Festivals, Masterworks Chorale, Westchester Hudson Opera, the San Francisco's First Church Concert Series, the Adirondack Music Festival, Syracuse's Society for New Music, the Bolshoi Orchestra Sextet, The West Point Concert Series and with the Liederkranz Symphony Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall.
Strempel's latest Centaur release with Canadian pianist Sylvie Beaudette is entitled:(In)habitation: Settings of Margaret Atwood Poetry by American Women Composers,composed expressly for the Ms. Strempel by some of the top female composers of our time, including Libby Larsen, Lori Laitman, Amanda Harberg, Elisenda Fábregas, Tania León, and Judith Cloud. The Journal of Singing raved about this recording saying, "Stempel's singing... is exemplary; there is so much to admire about how this project was conceived and executed down to the smallest detail, and Ms. Strempel is to be commended for her wholehearted embrace of these nineteen songs and for the stirring success she achieves even in the face of such daunting technical challenges. A remarkable achievement." Strempel is an Assistant Vice President at Syracuse University and was recently awarded an Enitiative eProfessorship by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. . The duo's current project is focused on commissioned musical settings of poetry by e.e. cummings, and includes settings by Regina Harris Baiocchi, Libby Larsen, Jocelyn Hagen, Judith Cloud, Christine Donkin, and Lita Greir. Strempel may also be heard on the upcoming release by Summit Records, Letting Escape A Song: Art Songs byJudith Cloud.
The Gallery is currently located at 135 S. Dargan St. in Downtown Florence.
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