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Pelham Art Center Chamber Music Concert
The Pelham Art Center continues
its Gallery Concert Series with
a chamber music performed by Andrew
Pak, Annaliesa Place, and Diego
Garcia on Sunday, August 11,
from 2 to 4 p.m.. They will perform
chamber and solo pieces by Brahms,
Grieg, Piazzolla, and Chopin for the
community in the Art Center Gallery.
Pak grew up in Orange County,
CA, and started piano lessons with
his mother at age 6. After watching a
Jascha Heifetz video one year later,
Pak decided to learn the violin, winning
several regional and statewide
competitions in both piano and violin.
He made his concerto debut at
age 13 performing Beethoven’s Third
Piano Concerto with the Concordia
Orchestra. Pak moved to NYC to attend
Stuyvesant High School and
Mannes Pre-College of Music, where
he won both schools’ concerto competitions
on piano and was concert
Place hails from Medina, Ohio
and made her solo debut at the age of
12 with the Heidelberg Orchestra and
has since appeared with orchestras
throughout the United States including
the Jackson, Peabody, and North
State Symphonies, Ohio Chamber
Orchestra, Concert Artists of Baltimore
and Camerata Notturna. Place
was featured in the Cleveland Orchestra’s
video conference with Alan
Gilbert and was hailed by the Cleveland
Plain Dealer as ‘the epitome of
poise and intelligence.’ An active
chamber musician, Place has appeared
as violinist and violist in the
United States and Europe appearing
at Encore, Sarasota Music Festival,
Music Academy of the West, Yellow
Barn, La Jolla Chamber Music Society,
Holland Music Sessions, and
Verbier. She has appeared at the
Laguna Beach Chamber Music Festival
with Claude Frank, Thomas
Jefferson’s home at Monticello, Lake
Champlain Chamber Music Festival,
Juneau Jazz and Classics Festival,
and the French Embassy in
Madrid. She was featured on the
Millennium Stage at the Kennedy
Center as part of the National Symphony’s
Beethoven Festival.
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Annaliesa Place and Diego Garcia will be performing at the Pelham Art Center on Sunday,
August 11. Photo courtesy of the Pelham Art Center
A founding member of ECCO, she
performs yearly tours on the east
coast and beyond. ECCO, Absolute
Ensemble, Bruce Springsteen, and
Sting feature her on recent albums.
Annaliesa’s degrees include a B.M.
from Peabody Conservatory of the
Johns Hopkins University and a
M.M. from The Juilliard School.
A Prizewinner in the Carolina
Oramas Competition, Colombian cellist,
Garcia has toured extensively
throughout Europe and Central
America. An avid chamber musician,
recording artist, and composer,
Mr. Garcia was a founding member
of the Astor String Quartet and
Gibbs & Main, string ensembles that
promote classical music of all styles
including his original compositions
and arrangements. Over the past decade,
Diego has become a sought after
composer for instrumental and
choral works. His music has been
broadcasted several times on NPR’s
‘Live from Hochstein’. Recent commissions
have included the original
score to the independent film Heart
of Tango, Rochester Oratorio Society,
and Gibbs & Main. In New York
City, he presented several recitals in
Alice Tully Hall with pianist David
Bradshaw. Diego has premiered several
works by living composers and
he has been part of concert series at
the Eastman School of Music, Wesleyan
University, Albion Chamber
Music Series, Back to Bach at the
Harley School, and Biblioteca Luis
Angel Arango.
Diego started his cello studies
in Colombia with Aleksander Korjenko,
where he won the Juventas
Competition. At the age of 15, he won
a cello position in the Orquesta Filarmonica
del Valle and became the
youngest musician to win a position
in this ensemble. Currently, Diego
is a conductor and cello instructor
at the Dwight-Englewood School in
Englewood, New Jersey.
Diego is the Orchestra director of
the Thurnauer School of Music Symphony
Orchestra and the Mannes
Preparatory Orchestra. He is the
co-director of String Society, a oneweek
summer festival for string students.
He is also on faculty of Summer
Arts with Juilliard in Geneva,
Switzerland.
Open to the public; $10 suggested
donation.
For information call (914) 738-
2525.