CT's Own: Unexpected Treasures
Please join Wilton Library for a wonderful afternoon of music with the Wilton Chamber Players. For this event, Ralph Kirmser and Kyong Hee Cho will be joined by Bärli Nugent and Jeff Jones for pieces by Madeleine Dring, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Shostakovich and Liu Zhuang.
Ralph Kirmser, oboe, has been oboist for the Madera Wind Quintet, the Prevailing Winds of Connecticut and the Morningside Wind Quintet of New York City. In 2000, he was oboist for Orvieto Musica, Orvieto, Italy. Dr. Kirmser is a resident of Wilton and has lived there with his wife, Sally, and their three children for 46 years.
Kyong Hee Cho began her piano career in Korea at the age of four. She attended the Manhattan School of Music as a merit scholar where she earned a BA and MA degree in piano performance. Kyong Hee has performed numerous solo concerts to benefit international medical and disaster relief. She teaches piano at her studio in Wilton.
Bärli Nugent is an alumna, former dean and faculty member of the Juilliard School. A member of the Artist-Faculty of the Aspen Music Festival for 30 years, she was principal flute of Marin Alsop’s Concordia Orchestra for 18 years. As the founding flutist of the Naumburg Award-winning Aspen Wind Quintet, she performed 1,000 concerts all over the world. She is now back living in her childhood home and is a volunteer with numerous wonderful local organizations.
Jeff Jones, violinist, never got to play for the Queen, but he did perform for three U.S. Presidents several times - John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. After serious study with Donald Weilerstein at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Jeff secured positions with the Utah, Indianapolis and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada, and the Buffalo Philharmonic. Jeff's grandmother was born in 1877 in Bethel, CT, where, coincidentally, the Joneses now reside.
Registration strongly suggested.