3rd in Saturday Keyboard Concert Series
Cellist Marina Hoover and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang of Oak Park offer an evening of chamber music Saturday, January 19 at 7 pm at First United Church of Oak Park. The program features cello sonatas by Chopin and Brahms, along with Grand Tango by Argentinean Astor Piazzolla.
The First United venue is a warm and welcoming place, with just enough stained glass to awe you, but not enough to distract you from the sound of a beautiful 9' Steinway. Huang and Hoover appear together in this program, their first since their debut on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series in 2005.
Now on the faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago, Hoover has taught with the Chicago String Quartet at Northwestern University. A founding member of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, she performed on five continents over thirteen years with that ensemble, which won first prize at Banff. She recorded three CDs with the quartet and in 2007 released a solo recording with pianist Patricia Tao on the Centaur label.
Kuang-Hao Huang is a regular guest pianist with the Chicago Chamber Musicians and with MusicNOW at Symphony Center. He has recently performed with Fulcrum Point at the Harris Theater and as featured soloist on the Concordia University Wind Ensemble’s fall tour. Of his playing in new works by Chen Yi and Louis Andreissen for the Carnegie Hall Millennium Piano Book Project, The New York Times wrote "energetic and vividly articulated."
In celebration of the 25th birthday of First United’s pipe organ, the church began a year-long series of seven Saturday evening concerts featuring local musicians in September. The next event is February 23, with mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang in music from Scandinavia.
Donations, large or small in support of this recital series are welcome at the door. Suggested $10 for adults; for students/seniors, $5. For more information, call 708-386-5215, ext. 61. First United Church is at the corner of Kenilworth and Lake Streets in Oak Park. Exit the green line "El" at Oak Park and walk one block north and one block west.
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