The Hammond Performing Arts Series Presents Mickey Katz and Constantine Finehouse

WESTON, Mass. (January 20, 2015) - Saul Cohen, President of Hammond Residential Real Estate in Chestnut Hill, is pleased to announce that cellist Mickey Katz and pianist Constantine Finehouse will perform the works of Beethoven, Shostakovich, Schumann and Brahms at the next Hammond Performing Arts Series concert on Sunday, February 1 at 3 p.m. at the Weston Library, 87 School Street, Weston, MA.

Mickey Katz joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in September 2004. A native of Israel, he has distinguished himself as a solo performer, chamber musician, and contemporary music specialist. He received the Presser Music Award in Boston, the Karl Zeise Prize as a Tanglewood Music Center Fellow, and he also won first prizes at the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Competition and the Rubin Academy Competition in Tel Aviv. He has been a recipient of the America Israel Cultural foundation scholarships since 1988. As a soloist, Katz has performed with several Israeli orchestras as well as locally with the Civic Symphony of Boston, Symphony Pro Musica, and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. He graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he was a Piatigorsky scholarship student of Laurence Lesser.

Constantine Finehouse was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and attended New England Conservatory, Juilliard and Yale. His principal teachers included Fredrik Wanger, Natalia Harlap, and Bruce Brubaker. Praised by Rhein Main Presse Allgemeine Zeitung for his “interpretations of depth and maturity,” Finehouse has performed extensively in the United States and abroad (including in Lausanne, London, Odessa, St. Petersburg and Trieste). Finehouse received his Masters in Piano Performance from Yale University as a student of Boris Berman and completed his undergraduate work at The Juilliard School under the guidance of Herbert Stessin and Jerome Lowenthal. Finehouse serves on the faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory and Extension Divisions.

The Hammond Performing Arts Series began in Chestnut Hill twenty years ago as a way to provide talented musicians with performance opportunities and to enrich the cultural life of the communities that Hammond’s network of offices serve. The series proved so successful in Chestnut Hill that it has been expanded to Boston, Concord, Hingham, Lexington, and Weston.

Reservations for the February 1 concert are currently being accepted. If you are interested in attending, please call 617-731-4644 x295 to reserve your complimentary seats.

To learn more, please visit http://www.hammondre.com/community-outreach/performing-arts-series.html