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Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.
Monday, January 11th @ 12:30pm:
Duets with Violinists Leo Adamov and Eliot Lawson
These two talented violinists will perform works by Leclair, de Beriot and Prokofiev.
Leo Adamov, violinist, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Rotterdam Conservatory in The Netherlands. While living inAmsterdam,he enjoyed an active career as a freelance orchestra musician, performing and recording with the Netherlands Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Opera, and the Radio Chamber Philharmonic, among others.
At home in many of the world’s premiere venues, such as the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Boston Symphony Hall, Leo’s professional musical experience ranges from traditional classical concerts to tours with such artists as Duncan Sheik and Jill Scott, from Broadway to Shostakovich String Quartets to solo improvisation with a dancer.
In 2007 Leo moved to New York to perform as concertmaster and soloist with diverse ensembles and explore new music and new genres. In 2009, among other things, Leo performed as soloist with orchestras the Mozart, Bach, Corelli, and Vivaldi concerti, Sarasate Zigeunerweisen, Chaussone Poeme and Beethoven Romance in F in New York.
Leo is on the faculty at the Brooklyn Conservatory and has taught the past two summers at an International Masterclass in Dinant, Belgium. In early 2010 he will make his New York/Boston debut with the Adamov/ Lawson Violin Duo.
Born in Brussels in 1978, Eliot Lawson is of Belgian and Luso-American nationality. He started studying the violin in 1985, and was chosen by Yehudi Menuhin in 1989 to pursue his studies in London. It was, however, in Belgium, with Leon Souroujon, that he continued his studies, subsequently completing them with H. Krebbers, I. Oistrakh, I. Grubert, J.J. Kantorow, P. Vernikov and N. Shkolnikova.
He has master’s degrees in music, awarded “with greatest distinction” by the conservatories of Brussels and Rotterdam, as well as an “Artist Diploma” of Indiana University in Bloomington and a soloist’s diploma from the Fiesole Music School in Italy.
A laureate and finalist of several national and international competitions (including Brahms, de Beriot, Premio Jovens, Mozart, Proce Vitate, Vieuxtemps, Maasmond, Lantier, Krebbers, Premio Vittorio Gui, Tibor Varga, Cardona competitions), Eliot Lawson has given many concerts in Europe and the United States, appearing on numerous important stages and invited by many radio and television companies in Portugal and in Belgium.
He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Sofia Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie, Porto Symphony Orchestra, the Simfonieorkest van Vlaanderen, the Belgian National Orchestra, The Bonn Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation, The Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra in renowned concert halls. He performed during festivals such as Festival van Vlaanderen, Ars Musica, Festival de Wallonie, Festival de Bretagne, Festival Tibor Varga, Festival Roussel, Brugge cultural capital of Europe and played the opening concerts of halls such as AMUZ and Les Brigitinnes.
As a chamber musician, Eliot Lawson is a member of the ensembles Hermes, One-Off, Enigma and Joseph Jongen. He forms a regular duo with David Cohen (principal cellist of the Philharmonia Orchestra) and with his sister, the pianist Jill Lawson. He was concert master of the Rotterdam Young Philharmonic and the Prima la Musica Flanders chamber orchestra. He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Portugal and the United States.
Since September 2006 he is professor in the Amsterdam Conservatory. He recorded several CD’s for labels such as Cypres and Fuga Libera receiving excellent reviews in magazines such as the Strad, Diapason (5/5), Crescendo (Joker). He will be recording the complete Hindemith sonatas, de Castera sonatas, Victor Vreuls and complete solo works by L. Souroujon
WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.
Future Shows:
Monday, January 25th @ 12:30:
Cellist Clara Yang and pianist Joseph Liccardo
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