AUGUST CONCERTS
Liz Longley-It’s Me Again
Bass River Arts Campus
Sunday, August 25, 2024, at 03:00 PM Price: $25
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Best known for her stop-you-in-your-tracks voice, Liz Longley is an accomplished singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. With her deeply emotional songs, Longley has earned accolades from some of the most prestigious songwriting competitions in the country and cultivated a following that enthusiastically supports the creation of her music. In 2020, Longley’s “Funeral For My Past” received widespread acclaim, with Forbes hailing it as a “stunning new album.” Billboard described it as spanning genres from Americana to gospel-flavored soul to shimmering pop anthems. The album was also included in Newsweek’s list of “100 Albums Released in 2020 to Put on Your Radar.” 2024 brings a new release from Liz, “It’s Me Again,” an EP featuring acoustic remakes of career-defining songs. Notably, among the revisited songs is “Unraveling,” a track that previously earned Longley the prestigious BMI John Lennon Scholarship Award.
You do not want to miss this amazing voice.
Sol y Canto’s 30th Anniversary Celebratory Performance
Bass River Arts Campus
Friday, September 6, 2024, at 07:30 PM – 09:30 PM Price: $25
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Help Sol y Canto celebrate their 30th Anniversary!
Sol y Canto is the award-winning Pan-Latin ensemble led by Puerto Rican/Argentine singer and percussionist Rosi Amador and New Mexican guitarist and composer Brian Amador. Featuring Rosi’s crystalline voice and Brian’s lush Spanish guitar and inventive compositions, Sol y Canto’s original songs are socially conscious and hopeful, set in a framework of varied musical styles with surprising twists. Their arrangements of Latin classics showcase familiar, singable tunes in a fresh new light. Described by the Boston Globe as “sublime ambassadors of Latin music,” Sol y Canto translates Spanish lyrics poetically to make their music accessible to all. They can make you dance, laugh, cry, and sigh all in one concert. With Brian’s commanding, intricate guitar playing, Rosi’s rhythmic drive on cajón and bongos, and liberal use of vocal improvisation and body percussion, the duo’s sound is full and dynamic. With Queralt’s versatile cello playing and the addition of her voice to the group’s luscious harmonies, the trio’s sound is both powerful and intimate.
Sonorous Dialogues: Beethoven and Chopin Cello Sonatas, with Ana Glig and Jacques Lee Wood
Bass River Arts Campus
Saturday, September 14, 2024, at 07:30 PM Price: $25
Pianist Ana Glig and cellist Jacques Lee Wood present two of the most celebrated cello sonatas: Beethoven’s A Major Sonata and Chopin’s G Minor Sonata. In this concert, Ana and Jacques delve into the heart of these masterpieces, exploring the nuances of each composer’s unique voice while celebrating the timeless beauty and emotional power of cello sonatas. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, embodies the composer’s mature style, balancing lyrical beauty with structural complexity. Its soaring melodies and intricate interplay between cello and piano make it a cornerstone of the cello repertoire, showcasing Beethoven’s mastery of form and expression.
Frédéric Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G Minor offers a contrasting yet equally profound experience. Known for its Romantic lyricism and emotional depth, Chopin’s sonata explores the full range of the cello and piano’s expressive capabilities, interweaving each voice creating a dialogue that is both intimate and expansive.
Ana Glig (Gligvashvili) is an award-winning, Georgian-American pianist praised for her ‘’virtuosic command of works” (Sheid Susan, //www.prufrocksdilemma.wordpress.com// Tallinn, August 8, 2014) and ability to “capture hearts” (Musical America Worldwide). Glig’s playing is recognized for her “lovely expressiveness, clarity in legato, balance and perfect logic.” (Pfister Lois, Chatham Music Club Gala Reflections, 2023).
A recipient of the Alfred Cortot prize at the Tbilisi International Piano Competition for the best interpretation of romantic music, Glig has performed internationally in Europe and the United States in solo and chamber settings. As an orchestra soloist, Glig debuted with Georgian and Israeli symphonic orchestras and, most recently, with Cape Symphony and Cape Cod Chamber Orchestras. In solo recital settings, Glig was a recent feature in Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert in Chicago, Illinois.
Glig received her master’s degree in piano performance from Mannes School of Music -The New School (NYC), and an Advanced Certificate in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from New York University (NYU Steinhardt). She completed her bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Tbilisi State Conservatoire (Republic of Georgia). Glig also served as an adjunct piano faculty at NYU Steinhardt.
Her teachers include Revaz Tavadze, Eteri Andjaparidze, and Victor Rosenbaum, among others. Glig is a Music Director at the First United Methodist Church in Chatham. She currently lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where she continues to perform and teach.
Jacques Lee Wood
Grammy-nominated and Boston-based cellist Jacques Lee Wood has performed worldwide as a solo artist, and chamber and orchestral musician. His activities as a performer reflect a broad range of interests – historical performance on period instruments, commissioning new works for both modern and baroque cello, improvisation that incorporates live electronics, and composing his own material are just a few areas he explores in his creative scope.
Dr. Wood is Principal Cello of the Cape Symphony, and is a member of several musical groups including Aston Magna, StringLab, Pedroia Quartet, Antico Moderno, and the NYC-based bluegrass band Cathedral Parkway. He is a frequent guest artist with A Far Cry, Boston Baroque, House of Time, Yale Schola Cantorum, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Bachsolisten Seoul, Bach Collegium Japan, Juilliard 415, and the Handel and Haydn Society. A recognized pedagogue, he is the cello professor at the University of New Hampshire and faculty at the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (Intensive Community Program, BEAM Program). Wood has released recordings on the Hyperion, Musica Omnia, and Navona labels.
He completed his BM at the New England Conservatory of Music under Laurence Lesser, and holds an MM and DMA from Yale University, where he studied with Aldo Parisot.