Palisades Virtuosi in Concert on April 11 at New Jersey’s Cali School of Music of Montclair State College

The critically-acclaimed Palisades Virtuosi flute, clarinet and piano trio, 2022 winner of The American Prize - Ernst Bacon Award for their performances of American music, returns to the concert hall on Saturday, April 11 @ 8:00 PM, at Cali School of Music’s Choral Room at Montclair State University’s Chapin Hall in Montclair, NJ. 

This will be a celebration of the ensemble’s Mission to Commission, having had more than 100 works created for them in the last 20 years, through commissions, adaptations of existing works for their instrumentation or via gifts from composers. The event is presented in preparation for the ensemble’s upcoming recording project, New American Masters – Volume 8. 

The program will feature new works written for the trio by Montclair State University composers Taylor Arthur Goodson and Ben Hackett, as well as pieces by composers James Cohn and Patrick D. Finley. See the complete list of PV’s previously premiered, performed and/or recorded new works at http://www.palisadesvirtuosi.org/commissioned-composers-honor-roll. 

This concert is free and open to the public. More event info at https://www.montclair.edu/john-j-cali-school-of-music/about-the-cali-school/performing-ensembles/concerts-events/. For MTA transportation info, visit https://new.mta.info/tripplanner/results. 

Palisades Virtuosi is flutist Margaret Swinchoski, clarinetist Donald Mokrynski and pianist Ron Levy, and is a 501 (c)(3) organization established to promote and enrich the repertoire for flute, clarinet and piano and present concerts that include existing and newly-commissioned repertoire for this configuration (each of their concerts includes a work commissioned by the ensemble), supplemented by solos, duos and larger works featuring guest artists. Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six of their New American Masters CD series are available from Albany Records and Volume 7, “Songs & Stories” is available from 4Tay Records. Visit the Virtuosi at http://www.palisadesvirtuosi.org/. For photos of the ensemble, visit http://www.palisadesvirtuosi.org/press-photos.

Funding for PV’s commissioned works program is made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, through grant funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs.

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