Maria Lambros and Friends in Concert
Three Centuries of Music by Jewish Composers
The Department of Music presents Maria Lambros and friends, who will present a program of Three Centuries of Music by Jewish Composers, including:
* Michael Alec Rose - Burlesques for Piano Quartet (2010, world premiere)
* Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 12 (1829)
* Gerald Cohen - Yedid Nefesh (Beloved of my Soul) (2007)
* Leonard Bernstein - A Simple Song from Mass (1971)
* Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein III - selections from South Pacific (1949)
Violist Maria Lambros, adjunct associate professor of Music, has performed as a chamber musician throughout the world as a member of three of the country's finest string quartets in venues such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, London's Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, New York's Lincoln Center and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the renowned Ridge String Quartet, which was nominated for the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for their recording of the Dvorak Piano Quintets with pianist Rudolf Firkusny on the RCA label. The recording won Europe's prestigious Diapason d'Or in the same year. She was also a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Meliora String Quartet, which was Quartet-in-Residence at the Spoleto Festivals of the U.S., Italy and Australia, and which recorded Mendelssohn's Octet with the Cleveland Quartet on the Telarc label. She was most recently a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and is currently the violist with the New York based chamber ensemble, La Fenice. Maria Lambros appears regularly at a number of major chamber music festivals, including those of Aspen, Vancouver, Santa Fe, Tanglewood, La Jolla, Caramoor, Helsinki, Norfolk, Rockport, Skaneateles, Bard, Cascade Head, Chamber Music West, New York's Mostly Mozart Festival and the Chateau Series in Turin, Italy. She has also performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, DaCamera Society and Context of Houston and with the Guarneri, Cleveland, Juilliard, Muir, Brentano, Borromeo, Colorado and Orion Quartets, among others.
8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. To order tickets in advance using a credit card, order online through MissionTix or call 410-752-8950. Tickets will also be available at the door, cash or check only.