Mozart – Piano Concerto in G, K. 453, I Allegro – Concert for the Cure – Boston – 12/5/10 Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle Pianist: Marc-André Hamelin Susan G Komen and Julie Scolnik, artistic director, present Concert for the Cure to help continue to raise funds and awareness in the fight against breast cancer. World-renowned music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle, along with 75 esteemed musicians drawn from leading orchestras and chamber ensembles have come together tonight in a spirit of love and generosity to make music together. Long known for his bold exploration of unfamiliar pianistic terrain, Marc-André Hamelin is now recognized worldwide for the originality and technical brilliance of his performances of the classic repertoire. In 2005, Boston flutist Julie Scolnik underwent treatments for breast cancer. Throughout her treatments, music played an essential role in keeping her spirits high, and as artistic director of a chamber music series, she continued to organize and play concerts in wigs after she had lost her hair. In 2008, Scolnik reached out to her musical colleagues to present a full symphony concert to raise funds so that all women facing breast cancer could have the care and support they deserved. The funds raised from this concert go to the Komen Foundation to support awareness for breast cancer screening, treatment and educational programming to help women and men throughout Massachusetts. Production by Cambridge Studios – Boston …
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www.csiarts.com Master Shahram Nazeri is an icon of Persian classical and Sufi music. He was the first vocalist to set Rumis poetry to Persian music thirty-five years ago, thus establishing a tradition of Sufi music within both Persian classical music and Kurdish music and his music was instrumental in introducing Western musical audiences to both Sufism and to the poetry of Rumi. The New York Times has dubbed him the Persian Nightingale and the Christian Science Monitor has called him Irans Pavarotti. Master Nazeri has released over forty recordings to date, His Goleh Sad Barg, recording has held the record for the highest selling album of Persian classical music and Sufi music in the history. His musical talents were first nurtured by his mother at a very young age. Throughout his childhood, he was under the tutelage of the most renowned masters of Persian music including Abdollah Davami, Nourali Boroumand, and Mahmood Karimi. At eleven, he performed on television for the first time. By twenty-nine, he had gained a loyal fan base. He has continued to perform in Iran and abroad over the course of the last two decades. He has performed at major venues worldwide, including the Sfinks Festival in Belgium, the Kodak Theatre (Oscar ceremony) in Los Angeles, and the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall in London, the Festa del Popolo in Italy, the The‚tre de la Ville in Paris, the Beiteddine Festival in Lebanon, the Kˆlner Philharmonie in Germany, and the RomaEuropa Festival …

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