Save the Date! February 13th Music & Art in the Studio!

Save the Date!

 

Monday, February 13th, 2017

Music and Art in the Studio

 

Look for the invitation next week, or check our website at that time.

 

SOLD OUT Dec 12th Holiday Event and Toy Drive

We are completely sold out.  We closed our RSVP last night.  If you did not make the RSVP by yesterday through Paypal - we are very sorry - we will not be able to accommodate you this time. 

We welcome you to a Russian-themed holiday night at Classical Underground, featuring a program of Russian favorites and the CU debuts of some outstanding young Russian talents, as well as returning good friends.

 

Cellist Alexander Buzlov is an exciting young cellist with an international career that was burgeoning even before he was a prizewinner at the most recent Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.  He will perform Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata, featuring one of the composer's most beautiful and memorable tunes in the 3rd movement, with Anton Smirnoff on piano, and a few surprise solo pieces.

 

Azerbaijan-born and USC-bred soprano Liya Khaimova will sing songs of Rachmaninoff, accompanied by Daniel Linder on piano.

 

Pianist Vladimir Khomyakov will display two aspects of his virtuosity with the heavenly clarity of the Bach/Siloti arrangement Prelude in B minor and the grand inferno of Liszt's Dante Sonata.

 

Our own cello regular Evgenny Tonkha and Anton Smirnoff will perform L.A. composer Juan Colomer's "The existential tourist." 

Longtime CU friend Roberto Cani, distinguished concertmaster of the LA Opera, joins the program, preparing an extra treat for us with the phenomenal cellist Alexander Buzlov.

 

And for a festive finale, Natasha Rubin-Marin and Marina Demina will play piano 4-hand arrangements of selections from Tchaikovsky's beloved Nutcracker Suite.

 

 

Classical Underground Showcase:
Peter Adams  

"Windy Afternoon, Convict Lake"    

California occupies a special place within a resurgent realist movement in American Art. One of the fortunate reasons converging around Southland is its venerable Plein Air tradition. Giving impulse to study the impact of color and light, it greatly expanded the palette of California representational artists, refreshing and modernizing the feel of their work. A uniquely Californian voice, shaped by its plein air tradition is the artist Peter Adams.

 

His prolonged interest in mystical sensation delivered through expressive use of color gives his works a thoroughly individual and authentic presence, while making his landscapes in particular distinctly personal.

 

Peter also dedicated almost two decades of his life to raising the profile of the California Art Club, and as its president built it into one of the leading organization dedicated to support of representational art in the US.

 

We are very happy to showcase Peter's new work "Windy Afternoon, Convict Lake" that is going to be exhibited at the Masters of The American West Art Exhibition at The Autry Museum.

     

 As always - bring your spirits, food and drink for you and your friends to enjoy and unwrapped toys for the children from the neighboring church.   

 

   

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We are most grateful to our supportive friends at

 Steinway Piano Gallery Los Angeles  

for graciously providing us with their incomparable instrument CD 213!

    

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We are grateful for a continuous support     

of our founding patron 

RAND RESOURCES, LLC 

 

in ART we trust!

          

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20795 Main St. Carson, Ca 90745
Doors open at 7 p.m. No assigned seats - first come-first served. Potluck. Dress warm.  Entrance from the parking lot.  Free parking.    

 

 

Save the date: Deceber 12th our Holiday Event and Toy Drive!

Our December Night  - Holiday Event and Toy Drive

Save the date!
Monday, December 12th, 2016

Look for the email invitation next week or check back on this website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RSVP now for November 7th - not to miss with Vadym Kholodenko

online reservations are now closed. Payments at the door are cash only.

November Night ! 

this coming Monday, the 7th @ 8 p.m. 

Music & Arts in the Studio  

@ Alexey Steele Grand Atelier 

  

 

We are truly privileged to present the CU debuts of two of the finest young musicians of their generation. The latest winner of the Van Cliburn Competition (2013), Vadym Kholodenko is a magisterial pianist in the grand Russian tradition. Perhaps it is no coincidence that Vadym will perform Schumann's rarely heard 4 Piano Pieces, op. 32, a work championed by the great Emil Gilels, whose refined power Vadym readily calls to mind.  Also on the program, Ravel's suite "Le tombeau de Couperin," and a Schubert Fantasie for Violin and Piano with the wonderful violinist Alena Baeva.  A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory like Vadym, and protege of both Rostropovich and Seiji Ozawa, Alena has performed concertos and chamber music with many of the greatest conductors and musicians in the world, including Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, Valery Gergiev, and Sir Neville Mariner.

Here is a preview featuring Alena and Vadym playing together last summer at an informal gathering of a lucky few in the CU studio:

Alena Baeva and Vadym Kholodenko play Beethoven Violin Sonata Op12-3

You can also hear Vadym performing the Rachmaninov Concerto #2 this week with the New West Symphony in Oxnard on Nov. 4 and Thousand Oaks on Nov. 5,  http://www.newwestsymphony.org/single_tickets.php 

Rounding out the program, the gifted clarinetist James Hodges will perform Dance Preludes by Witold Lutoslawski together with returning to CU pianist Hung-Tao Lin. 

Classical Underground Showcase:  Jeremy Lipking 

"Danielle" oil on linen  

It is always a great pleasure to see any recent work by our Classical Undergrounder Jeremy Lipking, but the one he just completed and will be sharing with us is particularly special. 

This masterwork likely won't go to a gallery, but remain a private family treasure. Jeremy and Danielle just welcomed to the world their twins Juniper and Zion. This painting is dedicated to the sacred woman's power of life-giving and depicts Danielle during her pregnancy.

The gorgeous palette of soft yet crisp colors perfectly placed in exquisitely precise tonalities displays a magnificent and rare level of control that puts Jeremy among the very few painters who ever mastered the visual power of close tonal range. This unique and highly developed ability allows him to keep the figure as a darker, fully unified silhouette set against shimmering evening sky, yet never disturb its overall lightness.

The profile presentation of the figure gives the exposed crescent of the baby bump a feeling of a celestial body rising over a horizon, with its curvature being supported and contrasted with the orb of the black hat.

Congratulations Jeremy and Danielle!

    

     

 As always - bring your spirits, food and drink for you and your friends to enjoy.   

  

******

We are most grateful to our supportive friends at

 Steinway Piano Gallery Los Angeles  

for graciously providing us with their incomparable instrument

  

 

   

*****

    

in ART we trust!

            

*******

20795 Main St. Carson, Ca 90745
Doors open at 7 p.m. No assigned seats - first come-first served. Potluck. Entrance from the parking lot.  Free parking.    

 

RSVP now for November 7th - not to miss with Vadym Kholodenko

November Night ! 

this coming Monday, the 7th @ 8 p.m. 

Music & Arts in the Studio  

@ Alexey Steele Grand Atelier 

  

 

We are truly privileged to present the CU debuts of two of the finest young musicians of their generation. The latest winner of the Van Cliburn Competition (2013), Vadym Kholodenko is a magisterial pianist in the grand Russian tradition. Perhaps it is no coincidence that Vadym will perform Schumann's rarely heard 4 Piano Pieces, op. 32, a work championed by the great Emil Gilels, whose refined power Vadym readily calls to mind.  Also on the program, Ravel's suite "Le tombeau de Couperin," and a Schubert Fantasie for Violin and Piano with the wonderful violinist Alena Baeva.  A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory like Vadym, and protege of both Rostropovich and Seiji Ozawa, Alena has performed concertos and chamber music with many of the greatest conductors and musicians in the world, including Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, Valery Gergiev, and Sir Neville Mariner.

Here is a preview featuring Alena and Vadym playing together last summer at an informal gathering of a lucky few in the CU studio:

Alena Baeva and Vadym Kholodenko play Beethoven Violin Sonata Op12-3

You can also hear Vadym performing the Rachmaninov Concerto #2 this week with the New West Symphony in Oxnard on Nov. 4 and Thousand Oaks on Nov. 5,  http://www.newwestsymphony.org/single_tickets.php 

Rounding out the program, the gifted clarinetist James Hodges will perform Dance Preludes by Witold Lutoslawski together with returning to CU pianist Hung-Tao Lin. 

Classical Underground Showcase:  Jeremy Lipking 

"Danielle" oil on linen  

It is always a great pleasure to see any recent work by our Classical Undergrounder Jeremy Lipking, but the one he just completed and will be sharing with us is particularly special. 

This masterwork likely won't go to a gallery, but remain a private family treasure. Jeremy and Danielle just welcomed to the world their twins Juniper and Zion. This painting is dedicated to the sacred woman's power of life-giving and depicts Danielle during her pregnancy.

The gorgeous palette of soft yet crisp colors perfectly placed in exquisitely precise tonalities displays a magnificent and rare level of control that puts Jeremy among the very few painters who ever mastered the visual power of close tonal range. This unique and highly developed ability allows him to keep the figure as a darker, fully unified silhouette set against shimmering evening sky, yet never disturb its overall lightness.

The profile presentation of the figure gives the exposed crescent of the baby bump a feeling of a celestial body rising over a horizon, with its curvature being supported and contrasted with the orb of the black hat.

Congratulations Jeremy and Danielle!

    

     

 As always - bring your spirits, food and drink for you and your friends to enjoy.   

  

******

We are most grateful to our supportive friends at

 Steinway Piano Gallery Los Angeles  

for graciously providing us with their incomparable instrument

  

 

   

*****

    

in ART we trust!

            

*******

20795 Main St. Carson, Ca 90745
Doors open at 7 p.m. No assigned seats - first come-first served. Potluck. Entrance from the parking lot.  Free parking.    

 

RSVP now for October 3rd - Opening Night. 9th Season!

Online reservations are now closed.  

October Night  - Season's Opening! 

this coming Monday, the 3rd @ 8 p.m. 

Music & Arts in the Studio  

@ Alexey Steele Grand Atelier

 

October 3 marks not only the start of our ninth season, but we'll also celebrate the birthday of our dear amigo Eduardo Delgado (just returned from playing in Italy and Argentina and about to leave for concerts in China and Thailand), who will be bringing us gifts of Ravel and Granados. Join us in wishing "Feliz cumpleaños querido Eduardo"!

At our last concert in June, we witnessed the birth of a thrilling new partnership with Anton Smirnov on piano, Evgeny Tonkha on cello, and Dmitry Olevsky on violin playing an all-too-brief, luscious movement of the Mendelssohn Trio in D minor, and leaving everyone hungry for more.  We're in luck because they are back to serve up the whole ravishing thing.

Evgeny and Dmitry will be joined by Erik Boulanger for a special presentation of "newborn" instruments made by celebrated Ojai-based luthier Brian Lisus.

The exceedingly fine Russian pianist Alex Slobodyanik, now a Los Angeles native, returns to CU with a selection of Chopin works including the Scherzo in B-flat Major and 4 etudes.

And for the first time in CU history, we will present a piano CONCERTO! Well, not with an actual orchestra, but with a second piano playing a reduction of the orchestral score, as pianists traditionally do when readying for an orchestral performance (or anytime there isn't an orchestra handy).  CU's very own audio recording genius Noel Gould will play the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor K. 466, accompanied on second piano by Naomi Sumitami, winner of the USC Concerto Competition.  Noel is preparing for the Moments of Music Foundation Piano Concerto Competition for Amateurs & Teachers at Steinway Piano Gallery in Beverly Hills on October 9.  The winner will play with an orchestra for real at Zipper Hall on Nov. 5.  Go Noel!

   

     

 As always - bring your spirits, food and drink for you and your friends to enjoy.   

 

Please RSVP via Paypal through our website by clicking on the button above.

   

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We are most grateful to our supportive friends at

 STEINWAY PIANO GALLERY LOS ANGELES 

for graciously providing us with their incomparable instrument
Model CD-706.

 

 

We are grateful for a continuous support     

of our founding patron
RAND RESOURCES, LLC

 

******

              

Classical Underground Showcase  

We will have a very special showcase at the opening night!  

Please watch for a separate email with details! 

    

in ART we trust!

 *******

20795 Main St. Carson, Ca 90745
Doors open at 7 p.m. No assigned seats - first come-first served. Potluck. Entrance from the parking lot.  Free parking.    

9th Season - Save The Date!

  

Opening Season 

Music & Art + potluck party

We are happy to announce our new
9th season!  

Save the date!

 

Monday, October 3rd, 2016  

Look for the email invitation next week,  

or check back our website at that time 

www.classicalunderground.com 

                           

Please also check your bulk folder, as many of you reported that you are not getting our emails.  We email everyone on the list!