New Season! Attacca Quartet!

We are thrilled to announce that the Attacca Quartet will open the season concerts at "Strad for Lunch Series on September 7th. Program to be announce soon. Suggested donation: $10
Winner of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America's premier young performing ensembles. The Attacca Quartet just won the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition! Visit there website for more info http://attaccaquartet.com
Attacca Quartet is not only an amazing group of musicians but a great group of people. We are so excited that they will be giving us the honor of opening our season at WMP Concert Hall. Please visit our website to see all the upcoming concerts at www.wmpconcerthall.com

Gil Morgenstern's Reflections Series 2011-2012 New York Season

We are proud to announce that Gill Morgenstern will be giving his second concert series at WMP Concert Hall. Last season every concert was sold out. Please if you are interested in coming to this series call in advance before his concerts are all sold out. This is what  www.reflectionsseries.com had to say

"The first season of Gil Morgenstern's Reflections Series in its new home at WMP Concert Hall was a sold-out success, beginning with a season-opening concert featuring the legendary Laurie Anderson, through performances inspired by muses as diverse as the Parisian salon and the diaspora, and concluding with Schoenberg's beautiful and intense Verklärte Nacht.

The New York Times described Gil Morgenstern as a, "brilliant artist," while New York magazine called Reflections, an "illuminating annual series."

Through its unique contextualization of historical artistic styles and events of their time period, Reflections Series programming entertains and enlightens the 21st century audience. Using both existing and original works, and with the collaboration of a superb ensemble of creative and performing artists representing all art forms, Reflections programs present works that both reflect upon one another and invite the audience to reflect anew on universal themes. The Reflections Series during the 2011-2012 season will also presented in Miami, Philadelphia, Boston and at An Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone, North Carolina; and in various cities throughout Italy, France, and England.

WMP Concert Hall is an intimate venue, ideally suited to Gil Morgenstern's innovative approach to programming. New York magazine describes it as, "a miniature version of a European aristocrat's music room, complete with gilt mirrors, chandelier, and lyre-back chairs."

We hope you will mark your calendars now, and join us again next season!"

For More information:
Reflections Series:  www.reflectionsseries.com
Gil Morgenstern: www.gilmorgenstern.com
WMP Concert Hall:  www.wmpconcerthall.com

If you would like to purchase tickets for any concerts please email admin@wmpconcerthall.com

WMP Concert Hall

 76 Concerts, 7 Concert Series, 117 solo artists, 8 Quartets, 7 Trios, 4 Ensembles = Season 2010-11 at WMP Concert Hall!! Thank you to all the wonderful artists who performed this season. http://wmpconcerthall.com/concert_calendar/previous_concerts.  Have a wonderful Summer! Looking forward to seeing you in September. Stay tuned for next season's programming. www.wmpconcerthall.com

Today at 31 E 28th st

In our workshop the work was completed on the Strad and the Amati is still with the top off. A new sound post patch is being fitted. The Strad had her top put back on and sounds absolutely amazing. The owner of the Strad is very happy. We had a very successful "Strad for Lunch" concert featuring a string trio. This was a beautiful group. They played  pieces by Dohnanyi and a composer from Brooklyn, NY Mazzolli. Today  Gostrings received some awesome Tonareli cello shaped cases in a variety of colors,  Mint green, black, cherry red and our ever popular pink! I think the pink cases will only be here for a week,  they are our fastest selling cases at Gostrings.

Wednesdays Strad for Lunch Review

Yesterday, our "Strad for Lunch" concert featured the cellist Thomas Mesa on our "Vatican Strad." cello made by Nicolo Amati circa 1660 and Alexandra Joan on our Bosendorfer piano. Thomas is a native of Miami, Florida and is currently a student of Timothy Eddy at the Julliard School.  Alexandra a graduate of the Paris Conservatory and the Julliard School. She has an active international performance career and is the artistic director of the Kaleidoscope Series this season at WMP Concert Hall. We witnessed a beautiful collaboration between both performers. For the  Sonata for Cello and Piano by C. Debussy, our french pianist really understood Debussy's music and it showed in her performance together with Thomas who showed how strong his relationship is with the cello, in coupling his interpretation with the piano. Showing his beautiful right hand technique, his bow getting a great powerful sound. The communication between them in the Sonata for cello and piano was beautiful. The second piece performed was the cello solo in Messiaen  Quartet for the End of Time "Praise to the Eternity of Jesus". It was very intimate, strong and moved everyone in the audience. This is such an important music. The final piece of the concert was  J. Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major. A great ending to the recital. Thomas played with strong, romantic emotion and precision. What a wonderful artist, giving us a great array of colors, feelings and moods. This recital was another example of the multitude of talented musicians that have performed on our stage, at WMP. We look forward to seeing both of these musicians perform again as their careers blossom. Oh, yes... we will get to see Alexandra perform one more time this season on June 1st. Visit wmpconcerthall.com for more details about this concert and all the activities at WMP.

In the workshop, top off a Stradivari and an Amati.

Today in the workshop, together with all the other patients,  there are two very fine instruments, a violin made by Stradivari and a cello made by Niccolò Amati. The instruments of Stradivari and Amati  are highly coveted by the worlds top musicians and collectors for the quality of their sound and their craftsmanship. Emmanuel is performing a major restoration, involving taking the top off on both instruments with the help of Sebastien Lavielle. The owners of these two instruments are famous musicians and we are proud to welcome their instruments on our bench.

Concert Tomorrow!

Hi! Tomorrow's wednesday, which means that there's another Strad for Lunch-concert in the WMP concert hall. This time, Giora Schmidt (violin) and Anna Polonsky (piano) will perform pieces by Geminiani, Janáček and Beethoven. As Giora has been practicing here, I know that it will be worth listening to!

Our Strad for Lunch concerts take place every wednesday at 12.30 pm, in the WMP-Concert Hall, which is situated at 31 East 28th street. We hope to see you there!

Eva - Intern for three weeks