BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:72@grandpianoseries.org DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Easter:20220427T193000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Easter:20220427T210000 DTSTAMP:20230221T021740Z URL:https://grandpianoseries.org/events/geneva-lewis-evren-ozel/ SUMMARY:Geneva Lewis/Evren Ozel DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nNew Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry whose performances speak f rom and to the heart. Hailed by conductor Nic McGegan as “a name to watc h\,” Geneva is the recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant and Gra nd Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Other recen t accolades include Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize and being n amed a Finalist at the 2018 Naumburg Competition\, a Performance Today You ng Artist in Residence\, and Musical America’s New Artist of the Month.\ n\n \;\n\nAfter her solo debut at age 11 with the Pasadena Symphony\, Geneva has gone on to perform with orchestras around the world\, including recent and forthcoming appearances with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra\, Auckl and Philharmonia\, Sarasota Orchestra\, Pensacola Symphony\, Augusta Symph ony\, and Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with a number of notable conductors\, including Nic McGegan\, Edwin Outwater\, and Mich ael Feinstein\, and looks forward to collaborations with Giordano Bellinca mpi\, Sameer Patel\, Peter Rubardt\, and Dirk Meyer. In recital\, recent a nd upcoming highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall\, the Concertg ebouw\, Tippet Rise\, Emory University\, Purdue Convocations\, Kravis Cent er\, and Myra Hess\, among others.\n\nWhile Geneva’s claim to chamber mu sic fame came early on as a member of the renowned Lewis Family Trio with her siblings Nathan (piano) and Rochelle (cello)\, she has since establish ed the Callisto Trio\, Artist-in-Residence at the Da Camera Society in Los Angeles. Callisto received the Bronze Medal at the Fischoff Competition a s the youngest group to ever compete in the senior division finals. They w ere recently invited on the Masters on Tour series of the International Ho lland Music Sessions and performed at the celebrated Het Concertgebouw Ams terdam.\n\n​Deeply passionate about collaboration\, Geneva has had the p leasure of performing with such prominent musicians as Atar Arad\, Efe Bal tacigil\, Glenn Dicterow\, Miriam Fried\, Ilya Kaler\, Michael Kannen\, Ki m Kashkashian\, Ida Kavafian\, Marcy Rosen\, Mitsuko Uchida\, and the Borr omeo String Quartet\, among others.\n\nAn advocate of community engagement and music education\, Geneva was selected for the New England Conservator y’s Community Performances and Partnerships Program’s Ensemble Fellows hip\, through which her string quartet created interactive educational pro grams for audiences throughout Boston. Her quartet was also chosen for the Virginia Arts Festival Residency\, during which they performed and presen ted masterclasses in elementary\, middle\, and high schools.\n\nGeneva is currently in the Artist Diploma program as the recipient of the Charlotte F. Rabb Presidential Scholarship at the New England Conservatory studying with Miriam Fried. Past summers have taken her to the Marlboro Music Festi val\, Ravinia Steans Institute\, Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Worksho p\, International Holland Music Sessions\, Taos School of Music and the He ifetz International Music Institute.\n\nGeneva is currently performing on the “Joachim-Ma” Stradivarius\, c. 1714\, on generous loan from the Ne w England Conservatory.\n\nEvren Ozel\, piano  American pianist Evren Oze l began his musical studies at age 3 in his hometown of Minneapolis\, MN.   He has won numerous honors and awards including scholarships from the U .S Chopin Foundation and Young Arts Foundation\, first prize at the 2016 B oston Symphony Concerto Competition\, second prize at the 2016 Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition\, and second prize as well as Mozart and Chopin special prizes at the 2018 Dublin International Piano Competit ion.  Most recently\, he received second prize and special prizes for Bes t Mazurka and Best Polonaise at the 2020 U.S. National Chopin Competition securing the honor of representing the U.S.A in the Inter-national Chopin Competition which will take place in Warsaw\, Poland in October 2021.\n\nO zel has performed with orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra\, Jackso nville Symphony Orchestra\, Minnesota Orchestra\, RTE National Symphony an d Boston Pops among others.  In 2018\, as a freshman at New England Conse rvatory\, Evren won both the Honors Piano Competition and the NEC Chamber Concerto Competition which garnered him an opportunity to play on the Jord an Hall stage with the school’s con-ductor-less orchestra.\n\nAn avid ch amber musician\, Ozel was selected by Mitsuko Uchida to participate in the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival.  There he performed with Jonathan B iss\, Alice Neary\, Marcy Rosen\, and Joseph Lin\, among others. Three of his performances at the festival have already been featured in the archive d Historic Recordings from Marlboro. In 2019\, he participated in ChamberF est Cleveland\, featured in their Rising Star program\, performing alongsi de artists such as Franklin Cohen\, Peter Wiley\, and Hsin-Yun Huang.  Of his performance of Franck Sonata with Nathan Meltzer\, Cleveland Classica l wrote “Meltzer and Ozel attended to every contour of the music with ca re\, crafting a long-form melodic idea that flowed effortlessly from phras e to phrase and movement to movement.  It was a privilege to witness.”\ n\nOther chamber experiences include invitations to play with Jupiter Symp hony Cham-ber Players and Chamber Music Live! at Queen’s College.  He w as also a member of Gruppetto Trio which was selected as a New England Con servatory Honors Ensemble in the 2018/2019 school year.\n\nOther summer fe stival experiences include the International Mendelssohn Akademie Leipzig in 2018 as a Mendelssohn Fellow\, taking masterclasses with Pavel Gililov and Matti Raekallio\, and the Oxford Philomusica Piano Festival in 2015\, where he had masterclasses with Ferenc Rados\, Menahem Pressler\, and Andr as Schiff.  He has also been selected to perform in masterclasses for Ric hard Goode\, Paul Lewis\, Mitsuko Uchida\, Garrick Ohlssohn\, Robert Levin \, Hugh Wolff\, Lang Lang and others.\n\nIn the 2020/2021 season\, Ozel ap pears again with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and performs with NE XUS Chamber Music for Hayden’s Ferry Chamber Music\n\nSeries in Tempe\, AZ.  Other concerts this season include solo recitals for the Paderewski Festival in Raleigh\, NC\, the U.S. Chopin Foundation in Miami\, FL\, and the Gilmore’s Rising Stars Series in Kalamazoo\, MI.\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram\ n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanacek: Violin Sonata\n\nMontgomery: "Peace"\n\nMessiaen: Theme and Variations\n\nAuerbach: Preludes\n\nDebussy: Violin Sonata\n\nFa ure: Apres un Reve\n\nBrahms: Sonata No. 3 in d minor\, Op.108\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \;\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://i0.wp.com/grandpianoseries.org/wp-conten t/uploads/2023/02/4-27-2022.png?fit=2550%2C1700&ssl=1 CATEGORIES:Past Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Pacific/Easter X-LIC-LOCATION:Pacific/Easter BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20220402T210000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:-06 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR