Pianist Damien Krzyzek and cellist Jamie Clark present a diverse program of duos to benefit the Metropolitan Community Church Food Pantry.
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Program:
De Falla — Selections from Siete canciones populares españolas
Prokofiev — Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 119
Tim Sullivan (b. 1971) — Dream Fragments
Rachmaninoff — Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 19
Suggested donation:
$30+ ($10+ students and seniors)
*We ask that all audience members wear masks.
Cellist Dr. Jamie Clark of Boulder, Colorado has been praised for her sensitive, imaginative, and colorful sense of artistry. She has concertized throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist and a chamber musician. She has performed solo and chamber music recitals in venues such as Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall, Eastman's Kodak Hall, New York City's American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Both an enthusiastic chamber musician and entrepreneur of collaborative outreach programs, Dr. Clark is a Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival.o.
Her commitment to community engagement has lead to collaborations with the Music For Food initiative in Boston, the New England Conservatory Community Partnerships Program, the Second Chance Center in Denver, and Attention Homes in Boulder.
Dr. Clark joined the faculty of Stetson University in the Fall of 2019 where she now serves as Assistant Professor of Cello and Coordinator of Chamber Music. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the New England Conservatory with Laurence Lesser. She also graduated with honors from both the Eastman School of Music (BM) where she was a student of David Ying, and the New England Conservatory (MM) where she was a student of Paul Katz.
Pianist Damien Krzyzek lives in Boston, where he has taught on the faculty of New England Conservatory since 2007. A passionate devotee of instrumental and vocal chamber music, he has made frequent appearances on the Jordan Hall stage with faculty colleagues, students and alumni from the string, woodwind and voice departments. He has performed at the Tanglewood Music Festival with members of the Boston Symphony, and made his German debut alongside saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky and violinist Elmira Darvarova in a program of David Amram’s chamber music at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe. He can be heard in collaboration with Radnofsky, trumpeter Seelan Manickam, soprano Margot Rood and composer Heather Gilligan on the 2017 Albany Records release Living in Light.
Also an active contributor to the field of opera, Damien brings a wealth of experience as a classically trained vocalist, and has prepared professional singers for roles at international opera houses. He has served on the music staff at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis since 2008, and can be heard alongside members of the Saint Louis Symphony in the 2014 world premiere recording of Ricky Ian Gordon’s 27, starring Stephanie Blythe and conducted by Michael Christie. An avid linguist, Damien has studied and coached more than a dozen languages, and frequently coaches singers and pianists in Russian and Czech song repertoire for NEC’s Liederabend series.
Damien loves cats, German-language crime fiction, word games, board games and logic puzzles. He has solved over 5,000 New York Times crosswords to date.