The Loring-Greenough House

Shaw Pong Liu, Violinist and Composer, with Leo Eguchi, Cello, and Nick Tolle, percussionist and cimbalom player at the Loring-Greenough House on March 17, 2013

Sunday March 17, 2013, at 3:00 p.m.,Shaw Pong Liu, Violinist and Composer, with Leo Eguchi, Cello, and Nick Tolle, percussionist and cimbalom player, will present One to Three, a program that explores the world of solos and duets, with a twist of trio, at the Loring-Greenough House, 12 South St, Jamaica Plain MA, as part of the Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House parlor concert series.

From solo violin musings on sunrises and birds, to succinct and entrancing duets for cimbalom and violin, to luscious, Hungarian folk-influenced Kodaly duo for cello and violin, the program will explore the world of solos and duets, with a twist of trio. Savoring traditional repertoire favorites, interwoven with improvisation and new compositions, Shaw Pong Liu, violinist and composer, performs with Nick Tolle on cimbalom (traditional Hungarian hammered dulcimer) and cellist Leo Eguchi. The program will include works by Ysaye, Kurtag, Kodaly and Liu. Meet the Shaw Pong and Leo at afternoon tea following the program.

Violinist Shaw Pong Liu seeks to engage diverse communities with creative music and social dialogue by innovating the audience experience of live music. Collaborating with artists from a wide range of disciplines, Shaw Pong creates genre-defying performances which interplay written and improvised music with narration, storytelling and movement.

Her current project, A Bird a Day, is a daily creative exploration of dawns, birds, and music. Recent productions include Soldiers’ Tales Untold, a musical-narrative production mixing veterans’ stories, music, and audience dialogue about the long-term costs of war; Of a River, a live performance-installation transforming a three-story glass atrium with five dancers, six musicians, and 600 yards of silk in Dayton, OH; and The Ligeti Project, a series of performances with improvising string quartet unraveling the music of Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti.

A native Californian, Shaw Pong is currently based in Boston, where she performs amplified and looped violin with young poets in the urban hip-hop slam poetry production, “ARTiculation” and . . . → Read More: Shaw Pong Liu with Leo Eguchi and Nick Tolle (Sunday, March 17)

notloB Parlour Concerts Presents Rising Acoustic Stars Bronwyn Keith-Hynes and Catherine Bowness with George Clements

THIS CONCERT IS NOW SOLD OUT!

Jamaica Plain  - Volunteer-run and not-for-profit notloB Parlour Concerts approaches its sixth year anniversary of presenting local and touring old-time, traditional and revival folk, Celtic, bluegrass and country blues artists to audiences at the historic (and intimate – just 40 seats) Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street,  Jamaica Plain by presenting rising young acoustic stars Bronwyn Keith-Hynes and Catherine Bowness, supported by George Clements.

BRONWYN KEITH-HYNES

http://www.bronwynkeithhynes.com/ Bronwyn Keith-Hynes is an award-winning fiddler from Charlottesville, Virginia. She began fiddling at the age of three and has studied with many wonderful musicians on the folk music scene including Beth Telford, Jerry Holland, Cleek Schrey, Matt Glaser, John McGann and Darol Anger. Bronwyn is a fluent player of Irish music, bluegrass and old time music. She has performed throughout the U.S, Ireland and France and has traveled to Ireland extensively to study with local traditional musicians. She has been featured on Irish RTE One television and the Irish Comhaltas Live Programme. At the age of sixteen she was awarded a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston and in December 2012 graduated with a professional diploma in violin performance.

Bronwyn has won numerous fiddle contests in Irish and Scottish fiddle styles. In 2006 at the age of fourteen, Bronwyn placed third in the Open Division of the U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Championship. She holds the 2007 Virginia State Fiddle Champion title and has also won at the 2008 and 2009 Mid-West Fleadh Cheoil fiddle competition.  She has been a first place winner at the Lowell Fiddle and Banjo Contest 2010, 2011 and 2012.

CATHERINE BOWNESS

http://www.bbbowness.com Catherine (BB) Bowness has been playing the banjo for the last ten years making frequent commutes from New Zealand to study, perform and teach banjo in the USA. In 2006 she won the Uncle Dave Macon banjo contest in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and was invited back in 2007 to tour with Colorado bluegrass band, Long . . . → Read More: notloB Parlour Concerts Presents Bronwyn Keith-Hynes and Catherine Bowness with George Clements (Saturday, March 9)