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Up Next 2012 -  (up-to-date schedule below)

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

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     Art for May and June, Cynthia Kollios

     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 really 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.

Jazz

Sunday, July 22:
Michael Sponseller, harpsichord
Douglas Kelley, viola da gamba

Sunday, September 23
David Koop

Sunday, November 18:
Rasa Vitkauskaite, piano