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"Russian Night, Romantic Nocturnes" - Concert at the Watchung Arts Center feature cellist Marty Steinberg and pianist Karen Delavan
Celebrating the arrival of spring, cellist Marty Steinberg is performing Russian Nights, Romantic Nocturnes with pianist Karen Delavan at the Watchung Arts Center on March 21 at 8 p.m.
The program features short, romantic pieces from Russia’s rich collection of music with works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Borodin, Glazunov and Arensky.
A dessert reception follows the performance. For ticket information, please contact the Watchung Arts Center, 18 Stirling Rd., Watchung, NJ 07069, 908-753-0190, http://www.watchungarts.org.
Steinberg has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Kennedy Center, NJPAC and the New York Times publisher’s suite. Since 2005, he has been principal cellist with the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra, where he is also the cello and chamber music coach.
He teaches in his studio in South Orange and is the founder of the award-winning Romanza Music, which performs chamber music at private parties in the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania areas.
Steinberg is also a journalist, and has interviewed such musicians as Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alan Gilbert, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur and Marta Casals Istomin.
Educated at the Juilliard School, pianist Karen Linstedt Delavan has held music staff positions with Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Sarasota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Spoleto Festival (Charleston), Tulsa Opera, DiCapo Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and American Opera Projects. For three seasons, she was the director of the studio artist program of the Sarasota Opera, and the music director for the Glimmerglass Opera tour for two years.
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Her past performances include master classes with distinguished artists including Elly Ameling, Hermann Prey, Hakan Hagegard, Hans Hotter, Yo-Yo Ma, Roger Vignoles, and Jonathan Miller. A resident of Madison, N.J., Delavan has performed at Westminster Choir College, Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Juilliard School and the Morgan Library.
