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The Queens Symphony Orchestra Presents: “DESTINATION: ITALY!” A Masterwork Concert Conducted by Martin Majkut with Violinist Kinga Augustyn
Each year, the Queens Symphony Orchestra presents a series of Masterworks Concerts that serves the residents of the orchestra's home borough as well as residents of the City and the New York metropolitan area. These concerts are a great opportunity for residents of all ages to take in a great concert in a world-class concert hall free of charge.
On Friday evening, March 23, 2018, the Queens Symphony Orchestra presents the second in its series of Masterworks Concerts titled "Destination: Italy" conducted by the company’s Music Director Martin Majkut at 7:30 PM at Flushing Town Hall. Repertoire includes Schubert's Overture in the Italian Style, Stravinsky's Pulcinella and Vivaldi's The Four Seasons featuring violinist Kinga Augustyn. Tickets are free to the public. Reservations are recommended. Seating will be on a first-come-first-served basis.
Martin Majkut’s ability to inspire the orchestra and deliver exciting, polished and powerful performances results in enthused audiences and many sold out concerts. He has been called “amazing, supremely gifted” and “an incomparable, unique and perhaps irreplaceable asset” by the press.
Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), Martin Majkut graduated from the State Conservatory and served as Assistant Conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic while earning his Ph.D. in conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts. He worked with the Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic and Slovak Sinfonietta, among others. Martin came to the U.S. as a Fulbright scholar in 2003 and earned a D.M.A., his second doctorate, in 2008, at the University of Arizona. Starting with the 2017/18 season, Martin assumed the music directorship of the Queens Symphony Orchestra in New York.
Accompanying Martin is Kinga Augustyn, a Polish-born and New York City-based versatile classical concert violinist and recording artist gaining worldwide recognition through her performances as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Her repertoire ranges from early baroque, which she sometimes performs on a baroque violin, to modern, oftentimes written especially for her.
Kinga Augustyn has performed as a soloist with orchestras in the United States, Europe and Asia. Among them are the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum, the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the American Academy of Conducting Orchestra at the Aspen Music Festival, the Rogue Valley Symphony, and the Riverside Symphonia (PA). She has toured China soloing with the Manhattan Symphonie and performing at China’s most prestigious venues such as Beijing Poly Theater and Shanghai Oriental Art Center.
Acclaim for Martin Majkut:
“That’s the thing: [Music Director] Martin [Majkut] always seems to find a way; however good it may be, he’s always looking for and finding a way to improve; always pushing the level up another notch. He is amazing – an incomparable, unique & perhaps irreplaceable asset.”
Performing Arts Review, 10/2015
Acclaim for Kinga Augustyn:
“…beyond amazing (…). Kinga Augustyn is one hell of a violinist. Her technique is tested to the breaking point in the virtuosic pieces, and she emerges unscathed. But also put to the test is her versatility in adapting to the wide range of music and styles presented, and again, she meets the challenge magnificently. Hallmarks of her playing are razor-sharp execution, even in the most taxing technical passages, and a tone of silvery purity high up on the E string, and of full-bodied mocha richness on the G string. That leaves a lot of notes in between, but they’re all produced with equal and even resonance.”
– Polish Violin Music, Jerry Dubins, Fanfare Magazine, 2013
For further information, please contact Diane Saldick at diane.saldick@verizon.net or at (212) 213-3430.
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