Posted by Class&Jazz on 1:14 am in News | Comments Off on Third Prize and Bronze Medal from Boston
Good news, folks! We just got back from our Boston trip, which was a complete succes for Class&Jazz Duo. Upon the competition results announcement, which was made late at night on December 4th after the final round performances in the Jordan Hall of the New England Conservatory of Music, our ensemble has been awarded the Third Prize and Bronze Medal in memory of Herriet Ruth Stormier Carey, MD at the VII International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in Boston, MA! We were happy to receive plausible feedback from the judges of the...
read morePosted by Class&Jazz on 3:05 am in News | Comments Off on Finalists of the VII ICMEC Competition
Dear friends, Good news! Class&Jazz Duo has successfully passed the semifinal round of VII International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in Boston, MA. The final round is happening tomorrow, December 4th in the Jordan Hall of the New England Conservatory in Boston starting at 6PM. Hope to see our Boston friends in the audience! Dear Contestants, We would like to congratulate all of you for a very high level performance tonight. It was extremely difficult to make a final cut for tomorrow. We encourage you to continue with the wonderful...
read morePosted by Class&Jazz on 7:25 pm in News | Comments Off on Masterclass with Brooklyn Rider
Hello guys, Next week, just before heading of to Boston for the VII International NEC Chamber Music Competition, our duet will be featured in the master-class with the famous string quartet Brooklyn Rider, hailed by Strings magazine as “the future of the chamber music”. Brooklyn Rider members – Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violins, Nicholas Cords, viola, and Michael Nicolas, cello – recently enjoyed their 10th anniversary as an ensemble. This creative quartet has performed in such varied settings as Joe’s Pub in New York...
read morePosted by Class&Jazz on 2:41 am in News | Comments Off on Photoshoot with Robert Charles Annis
Hey folks, Just made an awesome photoshoot with me and Natalia at Mt Hope United Methodist Church of Lansing, MI. This place is so beautiful and the sanctuary has a cute-looking baby-grand which added to our collection of pictures with the keyboards. Class&Jazz played many concerts in Mt Hope UMC and Natalia serves there as an organist and accompanist. We are extremely grateful to the church clergy, and especially to pastor Rev. Rob Cook for his permission to make this event happen. Our photographer Robert Charles Annis is a true artist...
read morePosted by Class&Jazz on 10:03 pm in News | Comments Off on French Music CD is Coming
Class&Jazz Duo is happy to announce our next CD album to be produced in 2017. Inspired by the recent successes of the A Paris chamber music series, we decided to record pieces that were featured in this project, along with a few more masterpieces for a new all-French album. The blueprint repertoire of the upcoming double-CD release is to include sonatas for violin and piano by: Jean-Marie Leclair, Jean Francaix, Cesar Franck, Claude Debussy, Guillaume Lekeu, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Faure, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc. The CD is planned...
read morePosted by Class&Jazz on 1:10 am in News | Comments Off on On to NEC competition in Boston!
Hey everybody! Couple weeks ago we have announced about Class&Jazz’s application to New England Chamber Music Competition. I posted the recording we submitted for the preliminary round here. And now the exciting news for Class&Jazz Duo! After the screening of the preliminary audition tapes, our ensemble was officially invited to take part in the live rounds of the VII International Chamber Music Competition of New England! Here is the email I got from the CMFONE today: Dear contestants, We would like to congratulate you on a...
read morePosted by Class&Jazz on 11:58 am in News | Comments Off on VII International Chamber Music Competition of New England
Hi folks, Happy to announce that me and Natalia have just completed our application to VII International Chamber Music Competition in Boston, which is happening in December, 2016. We also mailed in the recording that was part of the application process. Should our entry advance to the following live rounds, we will be going to perform at the Jordan Hall of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA on December 3-4. We are very excited about this, especially since it is not easy to find a chamber music competition here in US that...
read morePosted by Class&Jazz on 1:28 am in News | Comments Off on A Paris concert performed in Battle Creek
Hey guys, Thank you so very much for coming to our A Paris concert at First Presbyterian Church of Battle Creek! It was a great pleasure of ours to play for such a great audience tonight! And we raised another $600 more towards our fundraising goal… It was a great show, and we loved the acoustics of First Presbyterian Church of Battle Creek a lot! No wonder, Battle Creek Choral Series chose this church as a main venue for their concerts. I and Natalia would like to express our sincere gratitude to people whose support was so essential...
read morePosted by Class&Jazz on 10:29 am in News | Comments Off on Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition
It happened! after a long period of work, the preliminary recording for the Elmar Oliveira competition is ready! Please, keep your fingers crossed for us. If it works out, Class&Jazz is going to Florida in January to compete for the first prize of $30.000 and other benefits. YouTube link to my application recording. The repertoire includes: 1. Bach. Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D Minor for violin solo 2. Mozart. Violin Concerto No. 5, first movement 3. Paganini. Caprice No. 24 for violin solo 4. Ravel. Tzigane for violin and...
read morePosted by Class&Jazz on 8:50 pm in News | Comments Off on Class&Jazz was featured in Live Fridays show of 90.5 WKAR Radio
Hey folks! It was a fun Friday morning. We showed up, chatted a little about our Class&Jazz ensemble and upcomng a Paris concert in Central UMC and performed live for the broadcast. Awesome experience. Should you want to take a look at the show, please, follow this link:
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