JOS? LEZCANO, Guitar and FRANZISKA HUHN, Harp in "ROMANZE," Oct. 4, 8 pm

IMPRESARIA PRESENTS! with ELIOT STREET SOIREE SERIES:

JOSÉ LEZCANO, Guitarist, Composer, Folklorist, and FRANZISKA HUHN, Harp in “ROMANZE”

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014/8-9:30 pm

VENUE: First Church Unitarian Universalist, 6 Eliot St., Jamaica Plain, MA

ADMISSION: Advance purchase: $25 regular/$20 students, elders, low-income

Remaining tkts at door: $30 regular/$25 students, elders, low-income

TICKETS: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/852206

Websites: https://sites.google.com/site/impresariaproductions/

http://www.firstchurchjp.org/eliotstreetsoiree/

Description: José and Franziska will perform “Romanze,” a musical program reflecting the passionate intensity and revolutionary spirit of Beethoven, and its echoes in Spanish and Latin-American composers. Works include those by Paganini, Pujol, Cortes, Beethoven, Albeniz and Lezcano himself.

ARTIST BIOS: José is a twice Grammy-nominated guitarist and composer who has performed on four continents, and serves as Professor of Music at Keene State College. He most recently premiered his second Guitar concerto “Cubanero” with North-South Consonance in New York City. http://joselezcano.wordpress.com/

Franziska is an international concert harpist praised as “a virtuoso in the harp” (Berliner Abendblatt). On the faculty of New England Conservatory, Longy, and Tanglewood, Ms. Huhn is also performs regularly in Greater Boston – substitute harpist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and on regular rosters with Mistral Chamber Players, Walden Chamber Players, Radius Ensemble and Collage New Music. http://www.franziskahuhn.de/

PRESS: “An excellent guitarist as well as an imaginative composer” -Fanfare Magazine;

“Jose Lezcano…is a superb guitarist as well as a first-rate composer and arranger.” -New Millennium Guitar.

“They speak Berio’s language...for harp… in Franziska Huhn’s technically accomplished, superbly paced performance…The perfomance was terrific, wide-awake and strikingly entertaining.” - Boston Globe.

IMPRESARIA PRESENTS! is the performing arm of IMPRESARIA PRODUCTIONS, founded by eliSabeth Taylor in 1998 as “The Wren Street Soirees” in her home. It has expanded to Salons and Soirees of classical musicians, singer-songwriters and storytellers in local venues in the Greater Boston area. IMPRESARIA is pleased to work with the Eliot Street Soiree Series at First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist. Impresaria7Productions@gmail.com.

Eliot Street Soiree is First Church’s new fundraising venture. This season the series is hosting/co-hosting seven folk, contemporary, and classical performing arts events. See the website for details. Please email eliotstreetsoiree@gmail.com if you are interested in performing, have questions about the Soirée, or would like to volunteer (free admission to the event).