MCM Live Tango Music Winter Night
Live Tango Music Winter Night
Dear Audience Members and Performers,
You are invited to A Live Tango Music Night on February 7th, 2020. Manhattan Chamber Music will be performing with the world renowned bandoneon player Rodolfo M. Zanetti and Latin Grammy Award bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo.
Manhattan Chamber Music offers a very unique opportunity to rehearse and perform with incredibly talented professional musicians.
We are inviting you to register at www.manhattanchambermusic.com (age 9 to 19)
Application Deadline : December 1st, 2019
I am looking forward to working with you.
Best,
Lucie Gelinas
Manhattan Chamber Music Artistic Director
Pedro Giraudo
Latin Grammy Award winner bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo is among the most compelling tango artists today. After two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango, Pedro Giraudo debuted his own Tango Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing in July 2015 and since then has become an active cultural ambassador of this beautiful and passionate music of his native Argentina… Read more
Application deadline: December 1st, 2019
Online registration: click here
Special guest, Pedro Giraudo
Latin Grammy Award winner bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo is among the most compelling tango artists today. After two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango, Pedro Giraudo debuted his own Tango Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing in July 2015 and since then has become an active cultural ambassador of this beautiful and passionate music of his native Argentina.
In 2014 Ruben Blades’ CD “Tangos” on which he recorded bass won two Grammys Awards (Best Tango Album & Best Latin Pop). Pedro Giraudo has collaborated with Grammy award winner Pablo Ziegler, 9 time Grammy award winner Paquito D’Rivera, and Dizzy Gillespie’s protégé William Cepeda, as well as ‘Tango meets Jazz’ guests: Branford Marsalis, Kenny Garret, Regina Carter, Nestor Torres, Miguel Zenon among many others. Pedro Giraudo has also been the musical director of Tango for All’s ‘Blind’, Mariela Franganillo Company’s “Tango Connection” and “Tango Recuerdo” and performed with U.S.’s most prominent tango ensembles including ‘Forever Tango’, Hector Del Curto’s Eternal Tango, Fernando Otero’s X-Tango and Daniel Binelli’s ‘Tango Metropolis’. He has participated in numerous jazz and music festivals throughout the North America, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, and performed in venues such as The Blue Note (Japan & USA), Birdland (Austria), London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Jazz Festival Royale in Thailand, Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Iridium, Jazz Standard, Blue Note, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall (NYC).
2019 Summer session
Dear Friends,
I am proud to announce Manhattan Chamber Music’s fourth Summer Season. Located in the green surroundings of Inwood at the tip of Manhattan, MCM is first and foremost a music project with a mission to spark creativity in young musicians and bring true excitement through music making.
It is important to me that MCM should be an inspirational experience: students work together, share opinions, and unite to create beautiful performances.
Playing music is a gift!
I am looking forward to your involvement in Manhattan Chamber Music this Summer. Sincerely,
Lucie Gelinas
MCM Artistic Director
Videos from A LIVE TANGO MUSIC WINTER NIGHT
Dear Friends,
I am most grateful for your support! Enjoy few videos from our wonderful performance with a full house, on February 8th in Inwood, NYC. Our next Tango Night will be in July 2019.
Best,
Lucie Gelinas
MCM Artistic Director
A LIVE TANGO MUSIC WINTER NIGHT
Dear Friends,
You are invited to A Live Tango Music Winter Night.
Manhattan Chamber Music will be performing with the world renowned bandoneon player Emmanuel Trifilio and cellist Devree Lewis.
Friday, February 8th at 7PM at 630 Isham Street, NYC (at the corner of Seaman ave)
Bring your friends and family.
Free Admission
Best,
Lucie Gelinas
Manhattan Chamber Music Artistic Director
Video from Tango Night
Verano Porteno by Astor Piazzolla, arrangement Devree Lewis
Tango Night with MCM and special guest Emmanuel Trifilio, Bandoneon
Dear Friends,
You are invited to A Live Tango Music Summer Night.
Manhattan Chamber Music will be performing with the world renowned bandoneon player Emmanuel Trifilio and cellist Devree Lewis.
Thursday, July 26th at 7 PM in Isham Park, NYC
(rain venue: The Church of the Good Shepherd, 608 Isham St, NYC)
Friday, July 27th at 7:30 PM at Our Saviour's Atonement Church, 178 Bennett Avenue, NYC
Bring your friends and family.
Free Admission
Best,
Lucie Gelinas
Manhattan Chamber Music Artistic Director
Manhattan Chamber Music - 2018 Summer sessions
Manhattan Chamber Music is an intensive Summer Program founded in 2016 by Lucie Gelinas for young self-motivated musicians ready and excited to play Chamber Music.
Manhattan Chamber Music also provides a unique opportunity for young players and composers to bring their compositions for rehearsals and performances.
Apply Now!
Mahattan Chamber Music
http://www.manhattanchambermusic.com/
Special Event - Winter Tango Session
Guest Artists - Emmanuel Trifilio, Devree Lewis
Emmanuel Trifilio
International bandoneonist and prolific tango composer, Argentinian Emmanuel Trifilio brings a fresh perspective to the traditional tango sound, both in performance and composition.
After touring across South America and Europe, Sr. Trifilio is now based in Washington, D.C. He has performed as soloist on the main stages of Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center, as well as across the U.S. and British Columbia. Sr. Trifilio regularly works with Otros Aires and Quintango, and has appeared with National Philharmonic Orchestra, Choral Arts Society of Washington, and Octavio Brunetti Tango Orchestra. In 2017, Sr. Trifilio will perform in Cuba for the first time; he will also perform Piazzolla’s Concerto for Bandoneon with South Carolina Philharmonic.
Sr. Trifilio’s primary project, Trifilio Tango Trio, presents virtuosic performances of Sr. Trifilio’s new and original tango compositions. Their recent appearances include sold out shows at D.C.’s Embassy of Argentina, Embassy of Uruguay, and venues in Buenos Aires. “Milonga de la Ausencia,” from their first album, Original (2016), was nominated for Best Original Score at MOFF Film Festival in Milan 2016. Trifilio Tango Trio’s new album, Estaciones, was released in January 2017.
After touring across South America and Europe, Sr. Trifilio is now based in Washington, D.C. He has performed as soloist on the main stages of Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center, as well as across the U.S. and British Columbia. Sr. Trifilio regularly works with Otros Aires and Quintango, and has appeared with National Philharmonic Orchestra, Choral Arts Society of Washington, and Octavio Brunetti Tango Orchestra. In 2017, Sr. Trifilio will perform in Cuba for the first time; he will also perform Piazzolla’s Concerto for Bandoneon with South Carolina Philharmonic.
Sr. Trifilio’s primary project, Trifilio Tango Trio, presents virtuosic performances of Sr. Trifilio’s new and original tango compositions. Their recent appearances include sold out shows at D.C.’s Embassy of Argentina, Embassy of Uruguay, and venues in Buenos Aires. “Milonga de la Ausencia,” from their first album, Original (2016), was nominated for Best Original Score at MOFF Film Festival in Milan 2016. Trifilio Tango Trio’s new album, Estaciones, was released in January 2017.
Devree Lewis
Devree Lewis, cellist, is a prolific performer, arranger, and concert producer based in Washington, D.C. Founding member of Trifilio Tango Trio, she is also principal cellist with Pan American Symphony Orchestra and Amadeus Orchestra. Ms. Lewis has performed as soloist in Argentina, Austria, Peru, Lebanon, and across the U.S.
Former member of metal cello band Primitivity, she provides studio sessions in many cross-over genres as well as arranging music for orchestras, her own tango group and other chamber groups. The National Symphony of Cuba premiered her arrangement of Emmanuel Trifilio’s Ni Pelota: Milonga for bandoneon and string orchestra in 2017. Ms. Lewis’s arrangements can also be heard on Trifilio Tango Trio’s albums, Original (2016) and Estaciones (2017).
A sought-after freelance cellist, Ms. Lewis produces cross-over and chamber music concerts at venues including various embassies, the Kennedy Center, and clubs in Buenos Aires. In 2017, she directed D.C.’s first youth tango program, DCYOP Youth Tango Orchestra. Ms. Lewis won performance scholarships to Killington Music Festival, Kent/Blossom Music Festival, North Carolina School of the Arts, and most recently University of Maryland's Graduate Assistant program in Music Performance, where she received her Master's degree.
Devree is cellist, music arranger, and manager for Trifilio Tango Trio.
1 Live Music Event Not to Miss this Winter in NYC
Promising young string players, a world famous bandoneon player, Tango music: this is just a sampling of the musical delights Manhattan Chamber Music has in store for you this winter.
Lucie Gelinas, School For Strings and Juilliard School MAP Violin Faculty and also founder of the Manhattan Chamber Music, will be hosting A Tango Session Uptown starting January 5th and ending with a performance on Friday, February 2nd at 8 PM.
Emmanuel Trifilio, bandoneon player and Devree Lewis, cellist.
The session will feature acclaimed Argentinian bandoneon player Emmanuel Trifilio and cellist Devree Lewis. Together they will coach and perform with MCM.
The rehearsals will be held in Inwood, NYC on Fridays and/or Sundays, based on availability.
Register your child for this amazing opportunity!
The session cost: $400
Application Deadline: December 11st, 2017