Dear Musician Friends, I thought you might like to
know about this concert featuring Virginia Eskin -- it
is suitable for all ages:
A Musical Afternoon With Virginia Eskin (piano)
and Joanna Kurkowicz (violin)
Sunday, September 22, 2002, 4:00 p.m. Women's Studies
Research Center (Epstein Building) Brandeis
University, Waltham, MA
See http://www.rebeccaclarke.org/ for more info.
Music by Rebecca Clarke, Fanny Mendelssohn, Amy Beach,
Ernest Chausson and Lili Boulanger Thank you.

Pianist Virginia Eskin is a pioneering artist for the
discovery and rediscovery of historic women composers,
being the first to record many works by Amy Beach,
Rebecca Clarke, Vitezslava Kapralova, and the women
Ragtime composers. She has performed as a soloist
throughout the United States and Europe, with concerto
appearances including the Annapolis, Buffalo,
Louisville, New Hampshire, Rochester, San Francisco,
Santa Barbara and Utah Symphony Orchestras, the Boston
Classical, the Israel Sinfonietta, and the BostonPops.

Her recent performances include Rachmaninoff's Second
Piano Concerto with the New Hampshire Symphony, Clara
Schumann's Piano Concerto with the Boston Pops, and
the Amy Beach Piano Concerto with the Pioneer Valley
Symphony in western Massachusetts. She was the
featured soloist at the Aaron Copland Centennial
program held in 2000 at Northeastern University. Her
more than twenty recordings include a range of
neglected and unusual works, including women and
Boston area composers; she is featured on the
recording Chamber Music from Theresianstadt
(1941-1945) on the Channel Classics label. Her two
new recordings feature music by Marion Bauer
(1882-1955) and Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), on
the Albany label. Further information on Virginia
Eskin is available at http://www.virginiaeskin.com

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Susan, for The Rebecca Clarke Society, Inc.
http://www.rebeccaclarke.org/
info@...
singmezzo@...

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