Nicholas Smolenski

Friday Festival Recap – June 14, 2013

Happy Flag Day everyone! Welcome to another edition of the Friday Festival Recap. This week we have a few candid photos of performers and presenters after events. With the large number of diverse events presented in just a few days, it’s great to see guests and performers taking time to socialize and share laughs.

2013 festival guest composer Hilary Tann enjoying a light-hearted exchange after the ICAM Composers Seminar at The Hartt School.

Mary Matthews and Melissa Wertheimer, members of the 2013 guest ensemble The Dahlia Flute Duo, and festival director Daniel Morel after an electrifying concert of new flute music.

Nicole Chamberlain, composer, sharing a joke during a discussion on building performer/composer relationships at the 2013 WCForum.

Friday Festival Recap – June 7, 2013

Time for another recap of the many wonderful events from this year’s festival. Be sure to keep an eye out for news regarding next year’s events. We hope to see you there!

Festival guest composer Hilary Tann speaks to the Music Forum at Central Connecticut State University.

Erica Maas, soprano, performs Elizabeth Austin’s Three Sandburg Songs

Monika Krajewska, soprano, and Natasha Ulyanovsky, piano, perform Pauline Viardot’s Havanaise and Hymne a l’amour by Marguerite Monnot and Edith Piaf.

Friday Festival Recap – May 31, 2013

With plans for the 2014 festival already in motion, it’s time to continue our recap of the many amazing performances and events from this year’s festival with a few of the many photos. More to come soon!

Carolyn Bell, jazz stylist, and Alex Nakhimovsky, piano, perform a stellar set including Women Be Wise, Twisted, and Indigo Sky.

Carrie Koffman, saxophone, and Maggie Francis, piano, perform Shakkei, by guest composer Hilary Tann.

Mary Matthews and Melissa Wertheimer perform Consulting the Oracle, by Anna Rubin, winner of the 2013 composition competition.

Weekly Picture Post

Here it is again folks! The weekly Picture Post.

Here are some pictures from a few of the wonderful concerts of the 2013 Festival. Above is the Dahlia flute duo. They were the featured guest artists this year. The piece they are playing in this picture was the Score Call winning piece Consulting the Oracle by Anna Rubin. The piece featured the two floutists playing and dancing while being encircled by candles.

The picture on the left is from Hartt Saxophone Studio concert. The concert featured all music by this year’s guest composer Hilary Tann. The piece being played here is Of the Earth for Saxophone, Flute, and Percussion. The picture on the right is from the Concert Pro Femina. The program featured works by important historic female composers. Below Monika Krajewski is singing a song by Pauline Viardot.

Check back for more pictures next week!

Picture Post

Hello All!

We cannot thank you enough for all of your support in helping us to make this year’s Festival so wonderfully successful. One of the highlights of this year’s program of lectures and concerts was the WCForum. For the entire day, from 9am till 6pm, there were seminars and lectures. The variety of topics was astounding. From theoretical analysis to compositional techniques, there was something there to interest everyone. Here are a couple of pictures from that day for you to enjoy. More will be coming soon!

Pictured from left to right: Left “Penny Brandt speaking on Elsa Olivieri-Sangiacomo Respighi at the 2013 WCForum.” Center “Mary Matthews and Nicole Chamberlain discuss performer/composer relationships at the 2013 WCForum.” Right “Hilary Tann talks on the nature of composition at the 2013 WCForum.”