The Fort Myers High School Music Department will present their PRISM CONCERT 2011 on Wednesday, April 20th and Thursday, April 21st in the FMHS Joni Logan Auditorium. Tickets are $5.00 and the doors open at 6:30. The unique concert showcases ensemble and individual talents will begin in 7:00 PM. Tickets are sold at the door.
Fort Myers, April 6, 2011- On Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23, the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center will host this season’s American Virtuosi Chamber Concerts. The two unique programs will feature the music of the great masters combined with the talent of some of the world’s leading concert artists.
Special guests this season include violin virtuoso, James Ehnes. Hailed as “the Jascha Heifetz of our day” (Globe and Mail), violinist James Ehnes is widely considered one of the most dynamic and exciting performers in classical music. He has performed in over 30 countries on five continents, appearing regularly with many of the world’s most well-known orchestras and conductors. Mr. Ehnes appeared as guest soloist recently at the Naples Philharmonic with the Toronto Symphony in a dazzling performance of the Barber Violin Concerto.
Violinist Peter Winograd returns to Fort Myers. Mr. Winograd was recognized early as an exceptionally promising young artist and was a top prize winner in the 1988 Naumburg International Violin Competition. He then made his New York debut to critical acclaim and has since appeared as a guest soloist with numerous orchestras around the world. He is currently first violinist of the American String Quartet and is in residence at the Manhattan School of Music and Aspen Music Festival.
Also returning this year is cellist Andres Diaz, winner of the First Prize in the 1986 Naumburg International Cello Competition. His numerous orchestral appearances around the globe include engagements with the Atlanta Symphony, performances with the American Symphony at Carnegie Hall, the symphony orchestras of Milwaukee, Seattle, Rochester, the Boston Pops, and Esplanade Orchestras, the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival and the National Symphony Orchestra. Among the highlights of Díaz’s recent seasons are tours of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Hawaii, and Canada and appearances in Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic. He has also appeared with Russia’s Saratov Symphony and toured in New Zealand with the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra. Currently, he is Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University.
At the age of fifteen, pianist Wendy Chen debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under conductor André Previn. In 1990 she became the youngest winner ever of the National Chopin Competition, was one of the inaugural recipients of the Irving S. Gilmore Young Artists Award, and was named a Presidential Scholar by the National Foundation for the Arts. Since then, her career has flourished, adding Young Concert Artists International Auditions and Washington International Competition to her numerous awards. Ms. Chen has garnered critical acclaim for her engagements with leading orchestras and concert halls worldwide, with reviewers exclaiming that “having pianist Wendy Chen on the program is a guarantee that sparks will fly.”
The Friday, April 22nd evening program will include the Mozart Viola Quintet in C Major, Piazzolla for solo piano, and Ravel trio. The featured artists are violinists Peter Winograd and James Ehnes, violists J.T. Posadas and Jim Griffith, cellist Andres Diaz, and pianist Wendy Chen.
The Saturday, April 23rd evening program will begin with the Saint Saens Violin Sonata (James Ehnes, Wendy Chen), followed by the Dvorak “Dumky” Trio (Peter Winograd, Andres Diaz, Wendy Chen) and Mendelssohn Octet (James Ehnes, Peter Winograd, violinists Jennifer Kozbial and Daniela Shtereva, Jim Griffith, J.T. Posadas, Andres Diaz and cellist Susan Moyer Bergeron).
Cocktail receptions begin at 7:00 p.m., with performances at 8:00 p.m. The Art Center is located at 2301 First Street, in the River District, downtown Fort Myers.
The American Cancer Society Relay
for Life volunteers held Paint
Downtown Purple in the Fort
Myers River District from February 20
to 26. The event honors survivors, caregivers
and those fighting cancer.
Thanks in part to participating restaurants,
the event was a big success. Many
of the area businesses donated some of
their proceeds to Relay or allowed volunteers
to paint the windows of their businesses.
This year’s Downtown-River District
Relay for Life begins at 6 p.m. on Friday,
May 6 in Centennial Park.
For more information, call Don
Molloy, event chairman, at 980-1077 or
go to www.relayforlife.org/downtownriverdistrictfl
America
is a series of large-scale portraits painted in oil
which represent the beauty and complexity of the everyday man.
SIDNEY & BERNE DAVIS ART CENTER
2301 First Street, Fort Myers, FL 33901
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