Mon 2/24 @ 7:30PM
Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music faculty is providing most of the musical firepower for the upcoming Rocky River Chamber Music Society concert.
The evening stars tenor TJ Fralick, an expert in 19th-century Russian music. He’s performed solo recitals, and with symphonies and opera companies, and even provided vocals for a Cleveland Public Theatre dance event, about which CoolCleveland.com contributor Linda Eisenstein wrote, “It was worth attending just to hear JR Fralick’s melting sonorous tenor in Ricky Ian Gordon’s ravishing song cycle Genius Child.”
Fralick has rounded out a quartet of area musicians to join him, three recruited from among his fellow BW faculty members: pianist Christine Fuoco violinist Steve Sang Koh, and cellist Khari Joyner. The final member is viola player Lembi Veskimets, a member of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1997 who is described in her bio as “an enthusiastic chamber musician.”
She’ll get to enjoy playing an evening of chamber music tonight at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church when the ensemble tackles Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seven Romances on Poems by Aleksandr Blok, Op. 127; Three Songs for Tenor and Viola by early 20th century English composer Frank Bridge; Songs by Richard Strauss; and a selection of English and cabaret songs.
RRCMS concerts are always free and open to all, and live streamed on their website here.