The Metropolis Sentinel, Employees Report
Edmond, Oklahoma – Armstrong Auditorium’s Performing Arts Sequence continues in April with a stellar lineup of two distinctive performances that includes globally-heralded musicians, together with cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio on Thursday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. and the Zukerman Trio on Thursday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. The performances arrive as Armstrong Worldwide Cultural Basis celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary.
“We’re trying ahead to an eventful month that includes two distinctive performances that may enthrall and delight our audiences,” Armstrong’s Live performance Supervisor Ryan Malone stated. “Of their particular person methods, Sara Sant’Ambrogio and the Zukerman Trio every carry fascinating expertise and charm to the stage as Armstrong Worldwide Cultural Basis celebrates its silver jubilee.”
GRAMMY® Award-winning cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio entered the worldwide highlight when she received a bronze medal on the 1986 Worldwide Tchaikovsky Violoncello Competitors in Moscow, Russia. She adopted that efficiency with a nationally televised recital at Carnegie Corridor, launching a prolific profession as a member of the Eroica Trio and a soloist performing with orchestras world wide.
Sant’Ambrogio returns to the Armstrong stage in a brand new program inviting audiences on a musical journey via North and South America that includes “Porgy and Bess Fantasy” by George Gershwin, “Oblivion,” and “Libertango” by Astor Piazzolla, Samuel Barber’s sonata and extra.
Described in a press launch as “a prodigiously gifted chamber ensemble trio,” the Zukerman Trio consists of violinist Pinchas Zukerman, cellist Amanda Forsyth and pianist Angela Cheng. With a celebrated profession spanning 5 a long time, the two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning Zukerman is a gifted violin and viola soloist, conductor and chamber musician who’s wanted as a virtuoso world wide.
As an ensemble, the Zukerman Trio has toured the globe acting at main festivals and venues in Japan, China, Australia, Spain, Italy, France, Hungary, South Africa, Istanbul, Russia and all through america. For his or her debut at Armstrong Auditorium, pianist George Li will exchange Cheng, and the trio embraces Piano Trios from each Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
Tickets to Sara Sant’Ambrogio and the Zukerman trio vary from $30 to $55 and from $35 to $75 for orchestra seating, respectively. A stay stream possibility can also be out there for $15. Socially distanced seating is obtainable upon request.
The award-winning Armstrong Auditorium has established itself as a world-class heart for the humanities in Oklahoma since 2010. The theater has hosted acclaimed native and worldwide performances from an unlimited array of genres, together with classical, jazz and folks music, theater, classical ballet, folks dance and extra.
Designed to supply an distinctive acoustic expertise, solely 75 ft separate the stage from the again wall, permitting the 823-seat theater to boast a nine-millisecond preliminary time delay hole – a measure of outstanding acoustic intimacy. Armstrong Auditorium’s beautiful magnificence and heat ambiance proceed to make it a rare venue worthy of its quite a few accolades.
Field workplace: name 405-285-1010, and on-line go to armstrongauditorium.org.
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