Four extraordinary artists performing in a venue that is equally extraordinary.
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\nPlease Note:
\n\u2013\u00a0Capacity will be limited so purchase tickets now!
\n\u2013 Concerts take place on the second floor of the Arts Center, a fully renovated 100-yr old building without ADA access.
\n\u2013\u00a0Reserve your table for dinner downstairs at Roost after the concert** \u2013 Call 845-359-6700
\n**Union Arts Center is now the home of the highly acclaimed\u00a0Roost Restaurant, a casual American bistro providing elevated fare and an inventive cocktail list.
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\nBios
\nCELLIST DANIEL GAISFORD
\nAmerican cellist Daniel Gaisford enjoys a career that has\u00a0expanded over 30 years as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher.\u00a0 Hailed by the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0as\u00a0\u201ctransfixing,\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0The Philadelphia Inquirer\u00a0as\u00a0\u201cremarkable.\u201d
\nAfter hearing Gaisford perform, the Senior Editor at the\u00a0National Review\u00a0and Critic for\u00a0The New Criterion\u00a0Jay Nordlinger wrote\u2026
\n\u201cGaisford is an American cellist and not well known. Why this is so is a mystery \u2013\u00a0and it teaches us something about the music business. When I first heard Gaisford in Philadelphia, I was stunned: How could there be so good a cellist I had never heard, or even heard\u00a0of?\u00a0 Evidently, not every master is on the covers of magazines, or the covers of CDs; some have unorthodox careers. Gaisford has a formidable technique and a formidable mind.\u00a0 He can make a hundred sounds : fat, thin, spiky, lyrical, rich, sickly, piercing, warm.\u00a0\u201c
\nOn the Barge series in New York, Gaisford played with a grave mien throughout.\u00a0 He gave the impression that he was not merely performing a sonata, but doing something supremely important.\u00a0\u00a0The Chief Critic for the\u00a0Philadelphia Inquirer\u00a0had a similar reaction, calling Gaisford\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAmerica\u2019s greatest unknown cellist.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0also stated that\u00a0\u201cGaisford deserves more recognition.\u201d
\nGaisford continues to infuse with new life the great works of the past, while fiercely advocating for the music of our own time. As soloist, Mr. Gaisford has appeared with orchestras throughout the United States and Canada; among them the major orchestras of Saint Louis, Seattle, Toronto and Montreal, under the direction of conductors such as Robert Spano, David Zinman and Hermann Michael.\u00a0Equally active as a recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Gaisford has performed throughout the U.S. and abroad in cities ranging from New York, San Francisco and Berlin, to Boston, Rome and Tokyo. He has been a featured guest at major festivals throughout the world including New York City\u2019s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Chautauqua Festival, the Caramoor Festival, and the Davos Festival in Switzerland. Other festivals appearances include the RomaEuropa, New Jersey\u2019s Festival of the Atlantic, Michigan\u2019s Matrix Festival, the Prince Albert Festival in Kauai, the Aspen Music Festival and the Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado. Mr. Gaisford has been a frequent guest on radio programs around the country and his performances can be heard on NPR\u2019s Performance Today series. In 2001, Mr. Gaisford recorded composer Michael Hersch\u2019s Sonata No. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello and gave the NY premiere at the Tisch Center for the performing Arts to great acclaim. In 2004, he recorded Hersch\u2019s Sonata No. 2 for Unaccompanied Cello, which was dedicated to Mr. Gaisford. The performance was recorded on he Vangaurd Classics label and selected by The Washington Post as one of the most important recordings of 2005 by chief critic Tim Page.\u00a0 In 2015, Last Autumn was released on Innova Records.
\nNew releases also include the Bach Suites for Solo Cello and the\u00a0Piatti Caprices for Solo Cello.\u00a0 Daniel Gaisford grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah where he studied with Richard Hoyt and Gayle Smith. Further studies took him to the University of Southern California where he studied with Gabor Rejto and Ronald Leonard. Gaisford continued his studies with Harvey Shapiro and Channing Robbins at The Juilliard School of Music in New York. While at The Juilliard School of Music, Gaisford was principal cellist of the symphony orchestra and was the first prize winner of the Shostakovich Cello Competition which resulted in his Lincoln Center debut.
\nMr. Gaisford\u2019s recordings can be found at the iTunes store and on his website, as well as many other online music vendors.
\nGaisford has an\u00a0online cello class of talented students and professionals and is currently in video and recording projects soon to be released.
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\nVIOLINIST FILLIP POGADY
\nPog\u00e1dy has performed in some of the most renowned concert venues in the world including Lincoln Center (New York), Rudolphinum (Prague), Konzerthaus (Vienna), Tel Aviv Opera House, Lotte Hall (Seoul), and Seoul Arts Center.
\nHe also makes TV appearances, including guest starring on Louis CK\u2019s \u201cLouie\u201d.
\nAs a firm believer that music should be available to everyone, Pog\u00e1dy joined Yehudi Menuhin\u2019s \u201cLive Music NOW!\u201d Foundation, which is dedicated to bringing music to orphanages, nursing homes, prisons and hospitals. Pog\u00e1dy has played over 30 recitals for \u201cLive Music NOW!\u201d. Pog\u00e1dy decided to take this concept to the next level and has been performing the Sonatas and Partitas by J.S. Bach in the New York City subway throughout his studies at the Manhattan School of Music until present. \u201cMost of these people have never heard this kind of music before, and yet it touches them on a basic human level, because this music is just SO good,\u201d he says.
\nPog\u00e1dy gave his solo debut with orchestra at age 11 at the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna after winning the 1st prize at the Tsusuki Violin Competition as the youngest contestant.
\nHe participated three times at Austria\u2019s nationwide music competition \u201cPrima La Musica\u201d and won the 1st prize each time. He was also honored with special prizes by the Austrian String Society and the Raiffeisen Bank for extraordinary results at this competition.
\nPog\u00e1dy earned his Master\u2019s Degree in Violin Performance under the tutelage of Maestro Pinchas Zukerman at the Manhattan School of Music, where he was awarded a full scholarship.
\nBorn in Bratislava (Slovakia), Pog\u00e1dy moved with his family to Austria as a child and began his violin studies at age 7. Just one year later he was admitted to the Bruckner Conservatory Pre-college in Linz. He gave his first recital at age 10.
\nPog\u00e1dy resides in New York City.
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\nOXANA MIKHAILOFF
\nOxana Mikhailoff was hailed in a recent review by Jon Sobel as \u201ca titan of the Romantic Piano Literature.\u201d Of her playing, Vladimir Feltsman said \u201c\u2026(Oxana Mikhailoff) is a mature and accomplished musician\u2026Her playing has character, imagination, and is poetic. She has a strong personality and stage presence.\u201d
\nOxana has performed throughout Russia and Europe as a recitalist, concert soloist and chamber musician. Her United States debut took place at Carnegie Hall in 1999. She later returned to Carnegie Hall to play an all-Chopin recital on the 150th anniversary of the composer\u2019s death.
\nOxana maintains an active teaching studio in Westchester County less than one-half hour from New York City. Along with Vassily Primakov, Oxana is co-Artistic Director of the Sparkill Concert Series and the Midland Music Series in Bronxville, NY.
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\nVASSILY PRIMAKOV
\nIn recent years, Vassily Primakov has been hailed as a pianist of world class importance. In 1999, as a teen-aged prizewinner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Primakov was praised by Donald Rosenberg of the Cleveland Plain Dealer: \u201cHow many pianists can make a line sing as the Moscow native did on this occasion? Every poignant phrase took ethereal wing. Elsewhere the music soared with all of the turbulence and poetic vibrancy it possesses. We will be hearing much from this remarkable musician.\u201d
\nVassily Primakov has released numerous recordings for Bridge Records that include works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Philip Glass, Arlene Sierra and Poul Ruders.
\nIn 2011, Mr. Primakov, along with Natalia Lavrova established a new and vibrant record company, L.P. Classics, Inc. Their first release was Anton Arensky: Four Suites for Two Pianos. Most recently, they released Primakov\u2019s Live in Concert Album that includes works by Medtner, Schumann, Brahms\u2019 Handel Variations and Ravel\u2019s La Valse. www.lpclassics.net
\nIn March 2012 Vassily Primakov became a Yamaha Artist.
\nVassily Primakov is Artistic Director of Sparkill Concert Series since 2018 together with Oxana Mikhailoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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