Burried Treasure!

      Last week Emmanuel Gradoux-Matt, CEO of WMP Concert Hall, GoStrings, and Gradoux-Matt Rare Violins appeared on the TV show Buried Treasures on Fox Network. Buried Treasures is a reality TV program featuring the Keno Brothers from the TV show on PBS Antique Road Show. The premise of the show is the Keno brothers find interesting and potentially high value antiques, then find out the value and a buyer. Emmanuel appeared in the first episode when a family on the show had an old violin. The violin had a label with Giovanni Paolo Maggini and the Keno twins called Emmanuel to evaluate the instrument. Unfortunately for the family Emmanuel did not give them good news, the violin was a 19th century copy only valued at 300 dollars. Hopefully some people learned from Emmanuel's appearance on Buried Treasure. We get hundreds of people hoping that their violin with a Stradivarius label is the real thing but 99.9% of the time it is a copy. I am excited for the day when someone actually finds a real hidden treasure. In our next blog post Emmanuel will tell a story of when someone actually did have a real hidden treasure. Stay tuned!!

Summer Time!!

Can you believe summer is almost over! School will be starting soon, everyone is coming back from camp. So get ready for the fall with Gostrings.com! We have great deals on Pirastro strings and we will soon have great deals on cases and string sets to get you ready for the fall.  When you make a purchase from Gostrings join our mailing list to be the the first to find out our great deals on Gostrings.com!!

Just last week the prop master from the show "White Collar" bought a violin from Gradoux-Matt Rare Violins. The whole episode is going to be about a violin, and the violin is one of ours!! If you live in New York City remember Gostrings.com head quarters is right in Manhattan. We can help you in person with anything you might need. You never know who you might run into in our shop, we help the top musicians from all around the world and in New York City.

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.