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This event has been selected by Composers Now to be included in its Composers Interviewing Composers Series.
The Greene Space and the Brooklyn Public Library present The Harlem Chamber Players' 13th Annual Black History Month Celebration. This concert features composers of the Harlem Renaissance as well as contemporary Black composers.
PROGRAM
Florence Price - String Quartet in G Major
Jessie Montgomery - Strum
Carlos Simon - Elegy: A Cry from the Grave
Trevor Weston - Fudo Myoo
George Walker - String Quartet No. 1
Ashley Horne, Violin
Claire Chan, Violin
Amadi Azikiwe, Viola
Wayne Smith, Cello
Announcing 2021 Visionary Awards Recipient
2021 First Commission
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Paloma Alonso
"2020"
Darian Donovan Thomas, violin
Shayna Dunkelman, percussion
Angélica Negrón, mentor
Paloma Alonso is a New York City native. She is 13 years old and attends the Léman Manhattan Preparatory School. Her parents, both classical concert pianists, were her first piano teachers. Alonso cites her Cuban father and Albanian mother as major inspirations for introducing her to music of all styles and genres. She began studying cello six years ago with Juilliard-trained teacher Yves Dharamraj and also pursues her passion for dance at the school of New York Theatre Ballet where she has trained rigorously since the age of four. Alonso joined the New York Philharmonic Young Composers Program in 2017. She commented that "This wonderful program opened a whole new world of expression to me. Composing is another tool that allows me to be expressive in a beautiful and artistic way". In December 2019, on a Young People's Concert, the Philharmonic performed Alonso's Sweating Bullets under the baton of its Music Director Jaap van Zweeden. The orchestral work was scheduled to be performed by the Philharmonic again in April of 2020 but, was unfortunately cancelled due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.