Pianist Jamie Shaak and Friends
Northeastern Illinois University Recital Hall, 5500 N St Louis Ave, Chicago, IL
An Evening of Musical Rarities with pianist Jamie Shaak and friends Michelle Areyzaga, Maria Lagios, the Kontras Quartet, Elizandro Garcia Montoya and Grace Hong. The program features works by Lee Hoiby, Jake Heggie, Miguel Del Aguila, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Chicago-based composer Stacy Garrop.
Music for voice, piano, oboe, clarinet quintet and small ensemble for a new work featuring Lee Hoiby’s piano concerto slow movement "Lento Espressivo." With music by Living American composers Stacy Garrop, Miguel Del Aguila, Jake Heggie and Jamie Shaak. Performances of rarely heard music by Lee Hoiby and Samuel Coleridge -Taylor. Maria Lagios will read the poem Renascence by Edna St Vincent Millay with music set by Jamie Shaak. This premiere performance will bring to life the poem that put Millay front and center to american readers in 1912 when Ms. Millay was only 19 years old.
Free and open to the public.
When: 7:00 p.m. Friday, June 2 Location Fine Arts Center 160A - Recital Hall