Masterworks Series: Celebrating Schubert / Atlantic Collective
$35
- Russell Kotcher, violin
- Elise Frawley, viola
- JY Lee, cello
- Patrick Duff, double bass
- Nuno Antunes, clarinet
- Kika Wright, bassoon
- Blair Hamrick, French horn
- Mark Peskanov, violin
Franz Schubert — Octet in F major for Winds and Strings, D. 803, Op. 166
This program will receive 2 performances: Saturday, July 22 at 6pm; and Sunday, July 23 at 4pm.
About Bargemusic
Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a “wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics.” Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.”
https://www.bargemusic.org/About Atlantic Collective
Atlantic Collective is an adaptive, flexible chamber ensemble performing concert music that explores social and cultural themes. Formed during the COVID-19 pandemic, each musician has worked collaboratively or professionally with one another in various classical, contemporary, and pop music settings. As an ensemble, Atlantic Collective seeks to invigorate classical and contemporary repertoire by performing works from around the globe that illustrate our common humanity. Atlantic Collective's varied instrumentation allows for performances to be a multi-sonic experience, drawing the listener in with an array of voicings and textures on a single program.
https://www.atlanticcollectivemusic.com/About Elise Frawley, viola
About JY Lee, cello
About Nuno Antunes, clarinet
Born in Portugal, clarinetist Nuno Antunes performs extensively with a variety of ensembles in and around New York City.
Nuno is currently a member of Trio Cabrini, IRIS Orchestra, Principal Clarinetist with Opera Saratoga, as well as the Sylvan Winds. He is a frequent collaborator with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St Luke’s, American Ballet Theatre, The Knights, the Albany, Harrisburg, Springfield, and Miami Symphony Orchestras, and has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Westchester Philharmonic, the New York City Opera Orchestra, and Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa. He played clarinet and bass clarinet for the Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof and has been a substitute clarinetist for the productions of My Fair Lady, The King and I, Sunset Boulevard and Sweeney Todd.
Mr. Antunes has appeared as a soloist with the Miami Symphony Orchestra, performing Strauss’s Duett Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon and Orchestra. Other solo performances include Mozart’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra and Lutoslawski’s Dance Preludes. He has also performed as a guest artist with various chamber music groups, including the Parker Quartet, Da Capo Chamber Players, NOW Ensemble, and the Jasper String Quartet.
Mr. Antunes has held faculty positions at various schools and festivals, including the Killington Music Festival, the New York Summer Music Festival, and the Professional School of the Arts of Beira Interior. Mr. Antunes holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied with David Krakauer, and Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra where he studied with Nuno Silva and Ettienne Lamaison.
https://www.nunoantunesclarinet.com/About Kika Wright, bassoon
About Blair Hamrick, French horn
About Mark Peskanov, violin
Mark Peskanov (born in Odessa, Ukraine – then part of the USSR) is an American virtuoso violinist, known as a soloist, chamber musician, composer, conductor, and concert presenter.
Peskanov began playing the piano at age three, and the violin at seven. He received early musical training at the Stolyarsky school. In 1973, at the age of fifteen, he emigrated to the United States, where he attended the Aspen Music Festival and the Juilliard School. Upon his recital debut at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times declared, "Mark Peskanov is a tremendous young violinist and his Friday evening concert at Carnegie Hall was a triumph…He has it all—technique, temperament, and taste."
Since 2005, Peskanov is president and artistic/executive director of Bargemusic.