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Up Next 2012 -
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Sunday, May 20 at 7:00 PM
Velleda Miragias, cello Mika Tanaka, piano
Duo Terre de Sienne
Playing works of Jean Françaix, Johannes Brahms, Mika Tanaka, Claude Debussy and
Frédéric Chopin . A native of
Paris, Velléda C. Pelpel-Miragias was admitted to Paris Conservatoire Régional
Supérieur (CNR) where she then won first prizes in both cello and chamber music
with Honors from “Conservatoire National de Region de Boulogne”. She also
graduated from Indiana University with a performance diploma and then obtained
her Master of Music at Boston University. She won the international “Prix de la
ville d’Epernay” and received the ministry of culture award from France.
Pianist Mika Tanaka, a native of
Tokyo, has performed extensively in solo and chamber music concerts throughout
the US, France, England, and Japan. She currently freelances in the greater
Boston and New York areas, and in Tokyo. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree
in piano art performance from Tokyo College of Music and received her Master's
Degree from Conservatoire Européen de Musique de Paris with the highest honor "l'unanimité
du jury."
Tickets $10 donation, children
free
Followed by Wine/Dessert reception
For Directions:
50 Burroughs St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Taylor House Directions Link
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Art for May and June, Cynthia Kollios |
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My creative process is initially driven by a fascination with a particular
object or image. It can be a bit obsessive at times. The things that
resonate with me are somewhat emotionally loaded: sometimes in a direct
route relating to family history and cultural background. This is most
apparent in the Greek imagery (from my father’s side) but I’ve also used old
family photographs from my mother’s side as well to explore the past.
Other ideas come from a connection to a place
I’ve travelled to—Greece, Italy, Portugal or Kentucky, where my husband is
from. Many objects are tokens and treasures I’ve brought back that I’ve
chosen to work with. Memories wrapped up in an object.
The
object is a place to begin. I start exploring with my own tools and artistic
vocabulary—movement of line, framing things in a way to contain the space,
different viewpoints existing in the same plane or time. The iconography
varies, but I am frequently drawn
to mapmaking symbols and
imagery, the written word, architectural forms, vases and animals.
From being fixated on one type of central object
in a set of work I’ll find a thread or line that morphs and grows into
another theme in a different set of pieces. The idea of line is constant:
the richness of how it reacts to the paper and the wiping away and redrawing
or restating an outline of thought. The journey often takes me in a
different direction than I initially mapped out, which is r eally
what it’s all about for me. Where the new path leads is a constant joy of
discovery, of the object, the piece, of my relationship to it.
Cynthia Kollios, a Massachusetts native, has exhibited work in
Boston, Worcester, and throughout New England in a variety of venues,
including several solo, group, and national juried shows. She received her
BFA in painting from the University of Connecticut. She is an active member
of the artistic community of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood where she lives
and works out of a studio in her home. |
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Jazz |
Classical |
Saturday, June 16:
The Philippe Crettien Trio,
featuring Sean Farias on bass
Mike Connors on drums
Sunday, June 24:
Josh Rosen and Stan Strickland |
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Friday, July 13:
Brian Friedland Trio
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Sunday, July 22:
Michael Sponseller, harpsichord
Douglas Kelley, viola da gamba |
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August ?? |
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Friday, September 14:
The Kevin Harris Project |
Sunday, September 23
David Koop |
Friday, October 12:
John Funkhouser Trio |
Sunday, October 21
Kasia Sadej, Mezzo-soprano
Mark McNeill, piano |
Friday, Nov 9
Austin McMahon |
Friday, November 2
Jason McStoots, tenor
Linda Osborne, piano
Sunday, November 18:
Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano |