HAMMOND PERFORMING ARTS SERIES CONCERT

HAMMOND PERFORMING ARTS SERIES

Hammond Residential Real Estate presents a chamber music concert on Sunday February 12 at 3:00 p. m. at The Friends of the Performing Arts in Concord, 15 Walden Street, Concord.  The concert features Yevgeny Kutik, violin, and Caleb van der Swaagh, cello.

The program consists of Bach’s Suite No. 3 in C Major for Cello, Eugene Ysaye’s Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin, and the Largo from Bach’s Sonata No. 3 in C Major for Violin.  Additional works to be announced.

At age 24, Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Yutik has become a sought-after artist on the concert state worldwide.  In his recent German debut with WDR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Kutik “enraptured the crowd” (Der Westen) with his performance.  Of his New York City orchestral debut with the Riverside Symphony, The New York Times said his violin projected “an old-fashioned rhapsodic style, which was magnified by (his) rich, sweet tone.”  He made his debut with the Boston Pops Orchestra and Keith Lockhart in 2003 playing the Sibelius Concerto as the first prize recipient of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition.  He holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and recently completed his master’s degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston where he makes his home.

Caleb van der Swaagh, a native New Yorker, graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University where he studied Classics and Medieval and Renaissance studies.  As a member of the Columbia University Juilliard School joint program he studied cello with Bonnie Hampton.  Mr. van der Swaagh is the recipient of the Tanglewood 2010 Karl Zeise Memorial Cello Award and New England Conservatory Borromeo Quartet Guest Artist Award.  He is currently pursuing a Master’s of Music at New England Conservatory where he is studying with Laurence Lesser.

This recital is sponsored in keeping with the beliefs that talented music artists deserve performance opportunities and that it is right to enrich the cultural life of the communities in which we live and do business.