CONCERTI AL CHIOSTRO 2013

Ten nightly concerts in the beautiful cloister of St. Nicholas with artists Paulo Szot, Matthew Aucoin and Keir GoGwilt.Program

Tuesday, July 2 at 9 p.m.

Matthew Aucoin piano

Keir GoGwilt violin

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Janacek Sonata for violin and piano

Bach Sonata for violin and keyboard #4

Mozart Sonata for violin and piano K. 454

Wednesday 3 July at 21.00

Matthew Aucoin piano

Keir GoGwilt violin

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Berg "Die Nachtigall" (arrangement by Keir GoGwilt)

Bach Chaconne

Schumann Sonata for violin and piano #1

Gershwin Selection of arrangements by Jascha Heifetz for violin and piano

Thursday 4 July at 21.00

Matthew Aucoin piano

violin Keir GoGwilt
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Aucoin Scherzo (of the two worlds)

Bach Sonata for violin and keyboard #1

Rogerson Once

Messiaen "Louange à l'immortalitede Jesus" from Quatuor pour le fin du temps

Gershwin Selection of arrangements by Jascha Heifetz for violin and piano

friday 5 July at 22.00

Matthew Aucoin piano

violin Keir GoGwilt
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Mozart Sonata for violin and piano K. 481

Bartok Chaconne from the Sonata for solo violin

Aucoin Whitman Suite

Sarasate Zigeunerweisen

Saturday, July 6 and Sunday, July 7 at 10 p.m.
An Evening With Paulo Szot

baritone Paulo Szot

arranger and pianist Matthew Aucoin

double bass David Finck

drums David Meade

director Joe Langworth

Tuesday 9 July at 21.00

Matthew Aucoin piano

violin Keir GoGwilt
music
Janacek Sonata for violin and piano

Bach Sonata for violin and keyboard #4

Mozart Sonata for violin and piano K. 454

Wednesday 10 July at 21.00

Matthew Aucoin piano

violin Keir GoGwilt
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Berg "Die Nachtigall" (arrangement by Keir GoGwilt)

Bach Chaconne

Schumann Sonata for violin and piano #1

Gershwin Selection of arrangements by Jascha Heifetz for violin and piano

Thursday 11 July at 21.00

Matthew Aucoin piano

violin Keir GoGwilt
music

Aucoin Scherzo (of the two worlds)

Bach Sonata for violin and keyboard #1

Rogerson Once

Messiaen "Louange à l'immortalitede Jesus" from Quatuor pour le fin du temps

Gershwin Selection of arrangements by Jascha Heifetz for violin and piano

friday 12 July at 22.00

Matthew Aucoin piano

Keir GoGwilt violin

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Mozart Sonata for violin and piano K. 481

Bartok Chaconne from the Sonata for solo violin

Aucoin Whitman Suite

Sarasate Zigeunerweisen

we thank the company Angelo Fabbrini Pianoforti - Pescara and the "Francesco Morlacchi" Conservatory of Music in Perugia for their valuable collaboration

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PAULO SZOT
Paulo Szot, who debuted to Spoleto as Donato in Maria Golovin, recently performed in the broadway revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center Theater and in 2008 received several to Broadway awards: Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Emile de Becque.

In 2010, the Brazilian baritone made his acclaimed Metropolitan debut Opera as Kovalyov in a new production of Shostakovich's The Nose . His performances include: the role of Don Giovanni with the Opéra de Bordeaux, Michigan Opera and Dallas Opera; the role of Eugene Onegin, Guglielmo(Così fan tutte) andEnea (Dido and Aeneas) to Marseille; Count Almaviva(Le nozze di Figaro) at New York City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, De Vlaamse Opera and Aix-en-Provence; Escamillo with the Metropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Teatro Municipal de Santiago, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; and Manon at the Metropolitan Opera.

More recently he made his debut at the Opéra de Paris/Palais Garnier in Così fan tutte, atOpera in Rome in Il naso and at La Scala in Milan in Cuore di cane.

He has also performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops and at Avery Fischer Hall with the New York Philharmonic, where he presented his critically and publicly acclaimed from show An Evening with Paulo Szot, which was also presented as part of the American Songbook Series at Jazz at Lincoln Center and New York's famous Cafe Carlyle.

His next engagements include The Nose and Die Fledermaus at the Metropolitan Opera and Le nozze di Figaro in Bahrain.

MATTHEW AUCOIN

Matthew Aucoin is a composer, conductor, pianist and poet. His next opera has been commissioned by the American Repertory Theater, where he will conduct from Diane Paulus in 2015. Aucoin is currently assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, while he will make his debut with the Orchestra of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome in the fall; as a guest conductor he has conducted orchestras such as the Longwood Symphony and the Brattle Street Chamber Players. Aucoin is currently conducting the music for Paulo Szot's new play and composing new orchestral pieces for the Encounters Ensemble and the Fire Island Opera Festival. His previous works have been staged at the New York Composers Collaborative and the Loeb Drama Center. A 2012 graduate of Harvard (summa cum laude), Aucoin has published poetry and essays in such publications as the Boston Globe, the Harvard Advocate, and the Colorado Review.

KEIR GOGWILT
Keir GoGwilt was born to Edinburgh, Scotland, and raised to New York. Recent performances include Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the Bowdoin International Music Festival orchestra, Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 with the Greenwich Village Orchestra, Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Harvard's Bach Society Orchestra, Berg's Violin Concerto and Aucoin's This Same Light with the Encounters Ensemble. Keir has performed in various recitals at the Century Club, Miller Theater, the Canadian Opera Company and, in collaboration with Robert Levin, in the world premiere of Levin's version of a Mozart piano trio at the Sarasota Opera House. Tzadik Records will release Keir's recordings of Tobias Picker's music for violin and from chamber, in collaboration with the Tobias Picker Ensemble and the Brentano Quartet. A 2013 graduate of the Faculty of Literature at Harvard, Keir received the Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts. His dissertation, "Performing Responsibility," examines the implications of scientific studies of musicians' technique for literary theory and philosophy. Keir has studied with Lewis Kaplan, Christian Tetzlaff, Ute Hasenauer, Jorie Graham and John Hamilton, among others.

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