Ursula Oppens News
American classical concert pianist and educator
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-09-14 02:40:09
Pianist Ursula Oppens joined the Cassatt String Quartet in Sunday’s concert of Tania León, Mozart and Shostakovich which closed the Maverick season. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2022-04-07 18:47:45
Founded in 1985, the ensemble also includes first violinist Muneko Otani, who joined in 1986, and Jennifer Leshnower who has served as second violinist since 1994. With the new members, the quartet will be performing a piano quintet with pianist Ursula Oppens that was written for them by Tania León. The concert is on […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-07-05 16:42:00
Various events and other items that have landed in my inbox: The West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland has a good line-up of performers and works, both in person and online, and if you're attending in person, you can see "their own neighboring ancient circle of standing stones [Kealkill Stone Circle in this case.]" Sounds good to me! (My long-ago visit to Orkney included both standing stones and the St. Magnus Festival, featuring music of the late Peter Maxwell Davies.) The Merola Opera Program's season starts...er, started on July 3. Watch their web site for information about upcoming live performances. It's very abbreviated compared to most years, owing to the pandemic. Pianist Ursula Oppens, whose long and distinguished career has been dedicated to new and recent music, has a new CD out, of music by composer Laura Kaminsky. I've very much enjoyed Kaminsky's chamber music and her opera As One. […]
2019-05-17 03:58:00
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[…] in the afternoon, a three-hour lecture; in the evening, a performance of all five of the quartets. I can't say enough good things about the film, a most touching and informative document. Filmed in and around Carter's apartment, Greenwich Village, other New York City locations, and Paris, it shows the composer in his element. You see him at his desk, writing music, erasing, writing music, erasing, writing music. You see him working with musicians, including Ursula Oppens, Fred Sherry, and Pierre Boulez. You hear from a few of those musicans as well. He wanders the halls of the building where he studied with Boulanger, and walks across the Brooklyn Bridge. "Aha!" I thought. "That's how he lived to 100: he's a New Yorker who walks five miles a day." He chats with his wife, Helen Jones-Carter, who died in 2003. Looming over the film, sometimes visible through the windows of […]
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