The Montana Chamber Music Society will present their 2016 Winter Concert, Wednesday, January 27th at MSU’s Reynolds Recital Hall at 7:30pm. Philip Aaberg, Angella Ahn, Tracy Silverman and Michael Reynolds will perform duos, jazz works, and Mendelssohn D minor Piano Trio.
MCMS’s Artistic Director Michael Reynolds has been the cellist of the world-renowned Muir String Quartet since its inception in 1979. As a member of the Muir Quartet and as soloist and chamber musician, Mr. Reynolds has performed nearly 2,000 concerts throughout North America, Europe and the Far East, and he has performed with such diverse artists as Leon Fleisher, Menachem Pressler, Gil Shaham, Richard Stoltzman, Phyllis Curtin and Benny Goodman. Accolades he has won with the Muir Quartet include first prize at the Evian Competition, the 1981 Naumburg Award, two Grand Prix du Disques, the Gramophone Award, a Grammy nomination and a Grammy on the EcoClassics label he founded, and an internationally acclaimed PBS broadcast, “In Performance at The White House” for President and Mrs. Reagan. A native of Montana, he received his profreesional training at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was a student of David Soyer and Martita Casals, continuing with Karen Tuttle and George Neikrug and studies at Yale University. Mr. Reynolds has appeared with orchestras and in recital throughout the U.S., and his recording of the complete Bach Suites for Solo Cello on the EcoClassics label has received much critical acclaim.
Tickets to this event are $28, $21 for seniors, and $11 for students and are available in store and at cactusrecords.net/. Online ticket purchases are subject to additional fee. For more information, visit montanachambermusicsociety.org/. •
