CONNECTICUT LITTLE SYMPHONY

The Connecticut Little Symphony will give a concert April 21, 2012, Saturday, 2:00 p.m., at The Wilton Library, 137 Old Ridgefield Road, Wilton, CT 06897. The concert will include Mozart’s Piano Quintet in E Flat for Winds and Piano, K 452, as well as the Carl Reinecke Sextet. The concert is free and open to the public.

Featured on our program will be New York pianist Maxim Pakhomov—principal pianist for the Bronx Opera Company. Mr. Pakhomov, originally from Russia, studied at the Moscow State Conservatory and appeared throughout Russia with various orchestras. In addition, he has toured England, Scotland, Austria and Estonia. He has performed at Merkin Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Auditorium, in NYC, where he premiered his own arrangement of Stravinsky’s Petrushka for piano duo. His solo performances include piano concertos by Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, and Beethoven with the Orchestra of The Bronx, Beethoven’s Concerto No .4 with the Orchestra of the Barge Music Festival, Bach’s D Minor Concerto with The Lautreamont Chamber Orchestra, and the Beethoven Choral Fantasy with One World Symphony. Mr. Pakhomov is also a winner of the Bronx Council on The Arts’ BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Award.

The Connecticut Little Symphony, which is made up of professional players from the Fairfield County, CT, and the NYC area, includes alumni from Juilliard, Yale, Eastman, Moscow State University, the University of North Texas, Michigan State University, and the Manhattan School of Music. Members have performed with the New York Philharmonic, Chappaqua Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Dallas Ballet, Greenwich Symphony, Stamford Symphony, Bridgeport Symphony, Las Vegas Symphony, Wallingford Symphony, “The President’s Own” White House Marine Band, and New Haven Symphony, as well as numerous chamber music groups throughout the area. Many have performed with such musical luminaries as conductors and composers John Williams, Anshel Brusilow, Donald Hunsberger, Alfred Reed, Samuel Adler, William Boughton, Michael Shapiro, Edwardo Mata, and William D. Revelli; and with performers such as Tina Turner, Jessie Norman, Tom Jones, Jon Manasse, and Don Sinta.

Other musicians on the program include Jane Shelly, Janet Atherton, Ray Guier, Rosemary Dellinger, Dorothy Darlington, and Marc Wager.

Website: www.ctlsymphony.com