The Canellakis-Brown Duo will appear in Los Alamos 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21. Courtesy/LACA
LACA News:
The Canellakis-Brown Duo, young artists at the forefront of the great performer/composer renaissance, will appear in Los Alamos 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21.
Presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association (LACA), cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Michael Stephen Brown will play a program that celebrates the standard repertoire, little-known gems and their own compositions and arrangements.
Nicholas Canellakis is a multifaceted artist combining his talents as soloist, chamber musician, composer, curator, and filmmaker. Praised as “a superb young soloist” by the New Yorker, he is an artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with which he performs regularly in Alice Tully Hall and on tour internationally. His latest film, Thin Walls, was nominated for awards at several film festivals and is available on Amazon Prime.
Michael Stephen Brown, winner of the 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, is a prolific composer and sought-after soloist and chamber collaborator. Called “a formidable pianist” by Anthony Tomassini in the New York Times, he performs regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Composer of many commissioned works, he recently toured his own Concerto for Piano and Strings around the United States and Poland. arranger.
The concert will take place in the Duane Smith Auditorium, 1300 Diamond Drive in Los Alamos.
Tickets ($35) are available electronically at www.losalamosconcert.org, in Los Alamos at the Fuller Lodge Arts Center and at Smith’s in Los Alamos and White Rock. Tickets for young people ages 6-18 are free. LACA also offers free tickets to all music educators in Northern New Mexico who register at https://losalamosconcert.org/tickets/.
For complete artist, venue and ticket information, visit LACA’s website at www.losalamosconcert.org
PROGRAM
- Lukas Foss Capriccio (1948)
- Camille Saint-Saëns Romance in F Major, op. 36
- Sergei Rachmaninoff Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano, op. 19
- Clara Schumann Romance from Piano Concerto, op. 7
- Claude Debussy Beau Soir (1891)
- Michael Stephen Brown Spinning Song (2024)
- Nicholas Canellakis Romance à GF
- Niccolò Paganini Variations on a Theme from Rossini’s Moses in Egypt
- Don Ellis/Arr. Canellakis Bulgarian Bulge