LACA News:
Frisson Winds, one of America’s great touring wind ensembles, will open the Los Alamos Concert Association’s 77th season at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23 with music for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, and piano.
Joined by acclaimed pianist Marika Bournaki, Frisson Winds will perform sextets by Beethoven, Roussel and Poulenc. The program will also include Debussy’s seductive Syrinx for solo flute and a rousing trio for flute, clarinet, and bassoon by Valerie Coleman.
Frisson Winds includes artists who have performed at such prestigious venues as the Verbier, Aspen, Marlboro, and Ravinia Festivals as well as in New York at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall.
Marika Bournaki
Pianist Marika Bournaki was featured in the award-winning documentary I am Not a Rock Star, an account of her rise as a young prodigy. A graduate of the Juilliard School, she is an avid chamber musician and tours regularly with her husband, cellist Juillian Schwartz
The concert will take place in the Duane Smith Auditorium located at 1300 Diamond Drive on the campus of Los Alamos High School.
Tickets ($30) are available electronically at www.losalamosconcert.org, in Los Alamos at the Fuller Lodge Arts Center and at Smith’s in Los Alamos and White Rock. Tickets for young people ages 6-18 are free. LACA also offers free tickets to all music educators in Northern New Mexico who register here.
For complete artist, venue, and ticket information, visit LACA’s website.
PROGRAM
- Albert Roussel Divertissement for winds and piano;
- Mikhail Glinka Trio Pathetique;
- Francis Poulenc Sextet for winds and piano, Op. 100;
- Claude Debussy Syrinx;
- Valerie Coleman Rubispheres; and
- Beethoven Quintet for piano and winds in E Flat Major, Op. 15.
ARTIST BIOS
