AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WHAT: Chamber Music Santa Monica presents a concert of classical, romantic and original works for violin, piano and voice, featuring violinist Mika Krstic, pianist Cody Gillette, soprano Joy Weiser.

WHEN: Saturday, March 31st, 2007 at 3:00 pm

WHERE: The Martin Luther King Jr Auditorium at the New Santa Monica Main Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401, between 6th and 7th Streets, parking available at library parking structure on 7th St.

ADMISSION: Free to the public

CONTACT INFO: Florence Canicave: flocanicave@hotmail.com Ph: 310-486-2314 web info: http://homepage.mac.com/codigi1/Concert_Info/Personal182.html

Chamber Music Santa Monica announces their second concert at The Santa Monica Public Library’s new Martin Luther King Jr. Audititorium on
Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 3:00 pm. The program will feature violinist, pianist and composer Mika Krstic, pianist and composer Cody T. Gillette, and soprano Joy Weiser in works by Bach, Albinoni, Paganini, Wieniawski, and Chopin. Premieres of four new compositions by Krstic and Gillette for violin and piano, and piano solo, will be presented, including “Vocalise” and “Glass Prelude”. Soprano Joy Weiser will be featured in Schubert’s “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen” (The Shepherd On The Rock), written three weeks before his untimely death at the age of 31.

Joy Weiser will be seen in upcoming performances of Gilbert and Sullivan with the Pasadena Opera and was recently featured in a leading role the DOMA Theatre production of “Into the Woods” by Sondheim. Mika Krstic, newly arrived from Eastern Europe, comes from a family of several generations of accomplished musicians in both classical and jazz genres, and has toured Europe extensively as a violin soloist. Mika was judged one of the top twelve violinists in Europe and invited to study with Yehudi Menuhin in London at the age of 15. Cody Gillette has a broad range of musical experience as theatre director, opera accompanist and composer. Gillette was accepted at the age of 16 on scholarship at California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Leonid Hambro, Morton Subotnick, and went on to study with John Adams at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Chamber Music Santa Monica is the beginning of a new collaboration between performing artists from around the world who intersect in Santa Monica with a desire to share their concepts and talent locally, while encouraging composition of new works for chamber ensembles.