Join John Tyson and Miyuki Tsurutani for a Baroque recital for recorder and harpsichord. The concert will be held on Sunday, January 4 at 2:00 pm.

John Tyson has been Director of the Department of Historical Performance at Boston University, Artist in Residence at Northeastern University, and has taught at among others, the National Center of Afro American Artists and the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Institute. He has appeared as a soloist worldwide, as well as with major ensembles in Europe and the U.S. He has numerous recordings to his credit and is director of the improvisational Renaissance music and dance ensemble, Renaissonics.

Miyuki Tsurutani received her Master of Music Degree from Osaka College of Music where she studied harpsichord, recorder and piano. She has performed in the U. S., Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, as well as at, among others, Tulane University and the Boston Christmas Revels. She is a member of Renaissonics and is on the faculty of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Project Step Program, the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School and the Cambridge, Massachusetts Public Schools.

 

Korean born pianist Soomi Lee will give a concert on Sunday, January 11 at 2:00 pm. The program will feature works of Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann and Debussy.

Soomi Lee began piano studies at age five and by age nine had appeared as a soloist with the Korean Broadcasting Symphony. She was the youngest artist ever to be invited to perform at the Auckland Festival in New Zealand where she gave two solo recitals when she was 12. She gave her New York City debut at Carnegie Recital Hall at age 16 and holds a Masters from the New England Conservatory. She has won numerous awards and has appeared with, among others, the Boston Pops, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and the symphonies of Seoul, Korea and Newton and Brookline, MA.

 

The Piedmont Chamber Players will give a concert of a variety works for flutes on Sunday, January 18 at 2:00 pm. Flutist Sarah Kelly, pianist Deborah DeWolf Emery and others will present works of Friedrich Kuhlau, Trio op. 119, Luigi Hughes’s Fantasy on Themes of Verdi, the Sonatine of Walter Gieseking and Sonatine of today’s most renowned living French composer Henri Dutilleux.

Sarah Kelly flutist, is currently Vice President of the renowned William S. Haynes Flute Company. She holds a Master of Music Performance from the prestigious San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied with the acclaimed flutist Timothy Day. She has participated in the Pierre Monteux Music Festival and was a substitute for the New World Symphony Orchestra of Miami.

Deborah DeWolf Emery pianist, attended Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. She has performed in recitals and on recordings with musicians from major orchestras and music schools in the U. S. and abroad. She has served as a pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as a member of several chamber ensembles, and can be heard on CD performing with, among others, Edwin Barker, principal bass of the BSO and Douglas Yeo, bass trombone of the BSO.

The All Newton Music School’s concert series continues with a performance by The New Winds Octet. They are a select group of adult, amateur musicians chosen by audition. The group was formed in 1991 to explore and perform the wealth of music for this combination of instruments from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The Octet will give a concert of The Golden Age of Wind Music with works of Mozart, Beethoven and Salieri on Sunday, January 25 at 2:00 pm.

The groups’ coach/conductor, Judy Bedford, is professor of bassoon at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and teaches and coaches chamber music at several area music schools. The members of the Octet are Sue Jacobson and David Smith on oboe, Martin Arick and Paul Dreyer on clarinet, Frank Casados and Abigail Fisher on bassoon, and Sally Anderson and Garth Greimann on horn.