About the Event
Join us for an evening of music featuring cellist Laura Bontrager. All are welcome to attend this free event.
Laura Bontrager has been proudly affiliated with the Diller-Quaile School of Music since 1992, when she began in the Early Childhood Program. She later joined the cello faculty and is now a member of the string quartet in Diller-Quaile's Classical Access outreach program. She came to New York City in 1986 to attend the Juilliard School, where she received her bachelor's and master's degrees, studying primarily with Joel Krosnick. Laura has appeared with a wide variety of orchestras and chamber music ensembles, in jazz and popular settings, on Broadway, and in solo recitals. She has performed with Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Slatkin, Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, and Elvis Costello, and has recorded on the RCA Victor and Sony Classical labels. Laura is a certified Suzuki Teacher and a faculty member at both Diller-Quaile and the Chapin School in Manhattan. She studies with Dorothea Figueroa and currently plays in the new Lincoln Center production of Ragtime.
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude from Suite no. 5 in C minor for unaccompanied cello, BWV 1011
Ludwig van Beethoven: Seven Variations on a theme from Mozart's The Magic Flute
Nadia Boulanger: Three Pieces for cello and piano
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for cello and piano
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto Grosso in D minor for four celli
Performers
Laura Bontrager – Cello
Elke Velazquez – Piano
Jennifer Jahn, Nicole Johnson and Leigh Stuart – Cello
RSVP
This concert is free of charge. RSVP to reserve your seat.
Contact
For questions, please contact the front desk at (212) 369-1484, ext. 101 or email frontoffice@diller-quaile.org.
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With Thanks
Faculty Concerts are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
