Saint Mary of the Assumption Pipe Organ Benefit Concert featuring Roxana Bajdechi, Pianist and Eleanor Blake, Cellist

St. Mary of the Assumption

Pipe Organ Benefit Concert

MEMORIAL HALL, 30 School St. Milford, MA 01757

Featuring:
Roxana Bajdechi, Pianist
Eleanor Blake, Cellist



Please come and help support the restoration of our Steer and Turner Pipe

Organ! This concert will include Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major,  Op. 102, by Ludwig van Beethoven, and the Cello Concerto in A Minor by Robert Schumann.

FREE ADMISSION/ $20 Suggested Donation

All proceeds will go to cover the cost of the repair of the Pipe Organ of St. Mary's.

Romanian pianist Roxana Bajdechi is the winner of more than

fifteen prizes and awards, including the Valentino Bucchi Prize (Rome,

Italy), the First Prize along with the Award of the Romanian Music

Critics Association at the Mihail Jora Piano Competition (Bucharest,

Romania), and a Diploma of Excellency awarded by the National Radio

Society of Romania in March 2011.

Ms. Bajdechi has performed as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber

musician in Europe, Asia and the United States, in venues such as the

Glinka Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg (Russia), the Metropolitan

Art Space in Tokyo (Japan), The Mozart Hall in Bologna (Italy), the

National Radio Hall in Bucharest (Romania), the Kaye Playhouse in New

York, and the Sanders Theater in Boston. Her orchestral engagements have

included the Mozart Virtuosi Orchestra (Tokyo, Japan), The Puerto Rico

Chamber Orchestra (San Juan, Puerto Rico), the Black Sea Philharmonic

(Constanza, Romania), the Lyceum Strings (Bucharest, Romania), and the

Boston Conservatory Orchestra (Boston, MA). Her solo and duo

performances (with violinist Markus Placci) were broadcast on BBC Radio

(UK), RadioTre Suite (Italy), Bartok Radio (Hungary), and the Romanian

National Radio and Television.

 Ms. Bajdechi holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Piano

Performance from the Boston Conservatory, where, during her studies with

Michael Lewin, she was the recipient of the Alfred Lee and Benjamin

Kasser scholarships, won the Concerto Competition, and was repeatedly a

winner in the Piano Honors Competition. Ms. Bajdechi is a member by

invitation of the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. 

Eleanor Blake graduated from The Boston Conservatory where she

was a student of Ronald Feldman (Boston Symphony Orchestra) and Andrew

Mark (Boston Pops). She was awarded the Susan Glover Hitchcock Award for

excellence in musical academics from 2000 through 2002. Eleanor has

studied with Alexander Baillie (Bremen Conservatory, Germany), and Mark

Johnson (Vermeer Quartet). She has studied Orchestral Performance with

Jules Eskin (Principal Cellist, Boston Symphony Orchestra), Sato Knudsen

(Boston Symphony Orchestra), Alan Stepansky (New York Philharmonic),

and Mihail Jojatu (Boston Symphony Orchestra).

Eleanor is currently a member of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra,

The Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra and The Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra.

She currently performs with the Rhode Island Philharmonic and has performed with the Pro Arte Chamber Ensemble, National Lyric Opera of New York, New

England String Ensemble, The Bard College Conductor's Orchestra, and

Dartmouth Symphony among others.  Eleanor has also been a guest artist

with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and the Lyra Summer Music Festival.Eleanor runs a cello studio in her

home in Milford, Massachusetts and coaches chamber music and string

sectionals for the Metrowest Youth Symphony. Her students have

participated and held principal positions in the MMEA Central District

Regional Orchestra, The Massachusetts All-State Orchestra, and the New

England Conservatory Youth Orchestras.

Eleanor has performed with Yo-Yo Ma, James Levine, Renee Fleming, Andre Previn,

Raphael Frühbeck De Burgos, Bernard Haitink, Oliver Knussen, Sir Andrew

Davis, and Emanuel Ax.

Eleanor has been awarded fellowships with Tanglewood Music Center as

well as The Manchester (Vermont) Music Festival. She has participated in

The Elliott Carter Centenary Celebration, The Bowdoin International

Music Festival, The Festival de Violoncelle des Cote des Isles in

Normandy, France and the American Institute for Musical Studies in Graz,

Austria.  You may read more at www.eleanorblakecello.com.

If you can not attend the concert but still would like to make a tax

deductible donation, please make checks payable to "St Mary of the

Assumption" and write "Organ Restoration Donation" on the memo line.

Donations may be mailed to:

St. Mary of the Assumption
27 Pearl St.
Milford, MA 01757