Laura Leisring, Bassoon Recital
The University McIntire Department of Music presents a bassoon recital by Laura Leisring on Monday, February 24th, 2020 at 8pm in Old Cabell Hall. The recital is free and open to the public.
Laura Leisring, Principal Bassoon of the Virginia Symphony since 2007, can be heard on more than 35 CD recordings on labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, and Auvidis Valois as Principal with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Canary Islands, Spain 1989-2003, and as Acting Principal of the Milwaukee Symphony 2003/2004. Highly praised for her work by critics in Spain, she has performed with more than 100 world-class artists, and has been a soloist under conductors Yoel Levi, Antoni Wit, Leopold Hager, and Anne Manson, with whom she performed the European Premiere of the Concerto for Bassoon by Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Composer, Ellen Taaffe-Zwilich. She has served as Principal with the Music in the Mountains Festival, Durango, CO. since 2002, where she was a featured soloist in 2007.
PROGRAM | |
Sonata in C Major | Johann Friedrich Fasch |
Romance Op 62 | Edward Elgar |
Contradanza | Paquito D’Rivera |
Intermission | |
I Cried for You | Katie Melua |
Capriccio for Bassoon and Piano | Giuseppe Verdi |
Come Fly With Me | Music by James Van Heusen, words by Sammy Cahn |
Summer Wind | Music by Henry Mayer, English words by Johnny Mercer, original German Lyrics by Hans Bradtke
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What a Wonderful World | Words and Music by George Weiss & Bob Thiele |
April in Paris | Music by Vernon Duke, Words by E. Y. Harburg |
Chicago (That Toddling Town) | Music and Words by Fred Fisher |
Old Cabell Hall is located on the south end of UVA's historic lawn, directly opposite the Rotunda. Parking is available in the Central Grounds parking garage on Emmet Street, in the C1 parking lot off McCormick Rd, and in the parking lots at the UVA Corner. Handicap parking is available in the small parking lot adjacent to Bryan Hall.
All programs are subject to change.
This event is supported by the Eleanor Shea Music Trust.
Laura Leisring bio and photo are taken from the Virginia Symphony Orchestra website.