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Stradivarius on display Madrid’s Palacio Real

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, February 1 at 12:30pm
Violinist Erno Kallai and Pianist Larry Weng

These two talented musicians will perform works by Mozart, Bartok, Paganini, Sarasate, Liszt and Bazzini.

Winner of the Eleventh Carl Flesch International Violin Competition, Erno Kallai is establishing himself as one of the most exciting and charismatic young violinist today. In December 2008 he made his Carnegie Hall debut, performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.2 with the Juilliard Orchestra, under James DePreist. He performed chamber music concerts with Itzhak Perlman and members of the Perlman Music Program in venues such as Chicago Symphony Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the McCarter Theater. He has played for Hungarian radio and Television and appeared on the McGraw-Hill Company’s “Young Artists’ Showcase” with host Bob Sherman on WQXR. Erno’s regular recital partners include Rohan DeSilva and Janos Balazs, pianists and he has collaborated with Mattias Jacobsson, guitarist.

He has won numerous awards and prizes, including first prize at the Zathureczky Violin Competition in 2003, awards from the Semmering Music Festival in 2004 (which included the best interpretation of a work by Kodaly, and award for the best interpretation of a Viennese Classic work with his performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5), a Valerie Beth Schwartz Career Grant from Salone de Virtuosi in 2007, first prize at the Juilliard Concerto Competition in 2008, among others.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Erno Kallai began early violin training with his father. At age of twelve, he had been admitted to the Exceptionally Talented Children’s class of the Franz Liszt University of Music where he studied with Andras Csontha and Eszter Perenyi. In 2006 he moved to the United States to study with Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School, where he still continues his studies as a full scholarship student. Erno Kallai is playing a 1723 Petrus Guarnerius violin, a generous gift from the Juilliard Rare instrument Collection.

Larry Weng began his piano studies at the age of seven with Dorothy Shi. At the age of eleven, he enrolled in the New England Conservatory Preparatory School under the tutelage Sylvia Chambless. Larry Weng is a laureate of numerous competitions, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition and the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition for Young Musicians.

He has performed in many renowned concert halls, such as Symphony Hall, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Kaufman Center. He has also worked with numerous orchestras, including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 2005, he was admitted to the joint degree program between Columbia University and The Juilliard School.

In the past few years, Larry has continued to garner recognition in the music world, with top prizes from the New York Piano Competition and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin competition. Hailed by renowned professors and performers such as Arie Vardi and Paul Badura-Skoda as a “fine musician with a bright future,” Larry is dedicated to not only the artistic creation of music in the concert hall, but also to education and outreach in the broader community.

He firmly believes in the transformative powers of music, and the importance of immersing the youth in music in both an understandable and interesting manner. Larry has completed his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at Columbia University, and is currently finishing his Masters degree at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, February 8th @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Akiko Kobayashi and pianist Juliana Han

Monday, February 22nd @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Emily Smith and pianist Marnie Hauschildt

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Stradivarius on display Madrid’s Palacio Real

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, January 25th @ 12:30pm:
Cellist Clara Yang and Pianist Joseph Liccardo

These two talented artists will perform works by Beethoven, Bach and Britten.

Cellist Clara Yang has appeared in numerous solo, chamber music, and orchestral performances at major venues and festivals across the United States and internationally. She earned her Bachelors and Masters Degrees at the Juilliard School where she studied with Joel Krosnick, and earned her Professional Studies Diploma at the Mannes College of Music under Timothy Eddy. While at The Juilliard School, Ms. Yang was a recipient of the Grunin Prize in Cello, the Victor Herbert Prize and also received the Leonard Rose Scholarship.

s. Yang has appeared as a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Youth Orchestra, Concord Orchestra, and Brockton Symphony. She has given her New York debut solo recital at Carnegie’s Weill Hall in 2008 and other performances at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fischer Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and at the United Nations General Assembly Hall. She has won prizes in the Boston Symphony Concerto Competition, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and the New England Conservatory Concerto Competition in the United States, and Ewha and Chosun Music Competition in South Korea.

As an active teacher and certified Suzuki instructor, Ms. Yang is currently on the cello faculty at Mozart Academy of John Jay College CUNY, Center for Preparatory Studies in Music at Queens College CUNY, Bloomingdale School of Music, and Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Center.

Joseph Liccardo, pianist, holds a B.M. in Performance from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Dr. Douglas Humpherys. Before college he studied for 12 years with Dr. Donald Pirone at the Center for Preparatory Studies in Music at Queens College. During his time at Eastman, Joseph distinguished himself as both a soloist and chamber musician.

He received the John Celentano Award for Excellence in Chamber Music and also received a top prize for piano accompanying in the Jessie Kneisel Lieder Competition. In March 2006, Joseph won first prize in the young artist division of the Music Teachers National Association Piano competition, for which he received a Steinway Model M grand piano.

Upon graduation from the Eastman school, Joseph moved back to the New York City area, where he works as a freelance musician. He teaches private piano lessons at the Lawrence Eisman Center for Preparatory Studies in Music. Joseph recently returned from a tour of China, where he performed with the renowned pipa player Zhang Hongyan. Following his trip to China, he traveled to Wakayama, Japan to give a collaborative recital.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

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From January 25-February 7, you can enjoy special three-course, prix-fixe meal at some of New York’s top participating restaurants. Many of them right here in our area! (Flatiron District)

The cost for lunch is $24.07. Dinner is $35.00. Please note that prices are per person and do not include beverage, tax or gratuity. Saturdays are excluded and Sunday participation is optional.

We’ve listed the participating restaurants in our area in alphabetical order. You can view the menus and make reservations online at NYC Restaurant Week’s page.

If you are having a meeting in the office and want to go out for a special lunch or early dinner, the receptionist will be more than happy to make reservations for you.

A Voce
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch

Allegretti
Cuisine: French
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Angelo and Maxie’s Steakhouse
Cuisine: Steakhouse
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Bar Stuzzichini
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Barbounia
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, & Sunday Dinner

Black Duck
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Blue Smoke
Cuisine: Barbecue
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Bocca Restaurant & Bar
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Brasserie Les Halles
Cuisine: French
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

The Breslin Bar & Dining Room
Cuisine: British
Valid for: Lunch

City Crab & Seafood Company
Cuisine: Seafood
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Country
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Craftbar
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch

Dos Caminos
Cuisine: Mexican
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Giorgio’s of Gramercy
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Hill Country Barbecue Market
Cuisine: Barbecue
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

i Trulli Restaurant
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

ilili
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Japonais
Cuisine: Japanese
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Kellari’s Parea Greek Bistro
Cuisine: Greek
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

Olana
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Dinner

Periyali
Cuisine: Greek
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner & Sunday Dinner

Pranna Restaurant
Cuisine: Asian Fusion
Valid for: Dinner

Primehouse NY
Cuisine: Steakhouse
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner

Resto
Cuisine: New American
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, Sunday Lunch & Sunday Dinner

SD26
Cuisine: Italian
Valid for: Lunch

SushiSamba
Cuisine: Japanese
Valid for: Lunch, Dinner, & Sunday Dinner

Tabla and Bread Bar
Cuisine: Indian
Valid for: Lunch

Tamarind
Cuisine: Indian
Valid for: Lunch, Sunday Lunch

For a complete listing of all participating restaurants, please visit the official NYC Restaurant Week Page.

Need an office in the city? A place to meet before and after your delicious 2010 Restaurant Week meal?
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Statue of Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, January 11th @ 12:30pm:
Duets with Violinists Leo Adamov and Eliot Lawson

These two talented violinists will perform works by Leclair, de Beriot and Prokofiev.

Leo Adamov, violinist, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Rotterdam Conservatory in The Netherlands. While living inAmsterdam,he enjoyed an active career as a freelance orchestra musician, performing and recording with the Netherlands Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Opera, and the Radio Chamber Philharmonic, among others.

At home in many of the world’s premiere venues, such as the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Boston Symphony Hall, Leo’s professional musical experience ranges from traditional classical concerts to tours with such artists as Duncan Sheik and Jill Scott, from Broadway to Shostakovich String Quartets to solo improvisation with a dancer.

In 2007 Leo moved to New York to perform as concertmaster and soloist with diverse ensembles and explore new music and new genres. In 2009, among other things, Leo performed as soloist with orchestras the Mozart, Bach, Corelli, and Vivaldi concerti, Sarasate Zigeunerweisen, Chaussone Poeme and Beethoven Romance in F in New York.

Leo is on the faculty at the Brooklyn Conservatory and has taught the past two summers at an International Masterclass in Dinant, Belgium. In early 2010 he will make his New York/Boston debut with the Adamov/ Lawson Violin Duo.

Born in Brussels in 1978, Eliot Lawson is of Belgian and Luso-American nationality. He started studying the violin in 1985, and was chosen by Yehudi Menuhin in 1989 to pursue his studies in London. It was, however, in Belgium, with Leon Souroujon, that he continued his studies, subsequently completing them with H. Krebbers, I. Oistrakh, I. Grubert, J.J. Kantorow, P. Vernikov and N. Shkolnikova.

He has master’s degrees in music, awarded “with greatest distinction” by the conservatories of Brussels and Rotterdam, as well as an “Artist Diploma” of Indiana University in Bloomington and a soloist’s diploma from the Fiesole Music School in Italy.

A laureate and finalist of several national and international competitions (including Brahms, de Beriot, Premio Jovens, Mozart, Proce Vitate, Vieuxtemps, Maasmond, Lantier, Krebbers, Premio Vittorio Gui, Tibor Varga, Cardona competitions), Eliot Lawson has given many concerts in Europe and the United States, appearing on numerous important stages and invited by many radio and television companies in Portugal and in Belgium.

He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Sofia Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie, Porto Symphony Orchestra, the Simfonieorkest van Vlaanderen, the Belgian National Orchestra, The Bonn Symphony Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation, The Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra in renowned concert halls. He performed during festivals such as Festival van Vlaanderen, Ars Musica, Festival de Wallonie, Festival de Bretagne, Festival Tibor Varga, Festival Roussel, Brugge cultural capital of Europe and played the opening concerts of halls such as AMUZ and Les Brigitinnes.

As a chamber musician, Eliot Lawson is a member of the ensembles Hermes, One-Off, Enigma and Joseph Jongen. He forms a regular duo with David Cohen (principal cellist of the Philharmonia Orchestra) and with his sister, the pianist Jill Lawson. He was concert master of the Rotterdam Young Philharmonic and the Prima la Musica Flanders chamber orchestra. He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Portugal and the United States.

Since September 2006 he is professor in the Amsterdam Conservatory. He recorded several CD’s for labels such as Cypres and Fuga Libera receiving excellent reviews in magazines such as the Strad, Diapason (5/5), Crescendo (Joker). He will be recording the complete Hindemith sonatas, de Castera sonatas, Victor Vreuls and complete solo works by L. Souroujon

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, January 25th @ 12:30:
Cellist Clara Yang and pianist Joseph Liccardo

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Statue of Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, December 14 at 12:30pm
Cellist Sarina Zhang with Pianist Alexandra Joan

On Monday, December 14th at 12:30pm, cellist Sarina Zhang will perform a program featuring works by Debussy, Kodaly and Tchaikovsky with pianist Alexandra Joan.

At the age of 13, Sarina Zhang has accumulated a mantel full of top awards as both pianist and cellist. Most recently, she has won the Juilliard Pre-College Dvorak Cello Concerto Competition and been named a 2009 Davidson Fellow by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. In April 2009, Sarina won the New York Ensemble 212 Young Artist Competition. In 2008, she was awarded the 1st place in Connecticut International Young Artist Competition for piano and the 2nd place for cello, and the special prize in the New York Grand Prix International Piano Competition. In 2007, Sarina captured the 3rd place in Virginia Waring International Piano Concerto Competition, the 1st prize in MTAC California Piano Solo Competition, and the 1st place in Los Angeles Violoncello Society Scholarship Competition. Some of her other past awards include winning 2005 International Russian Piano Music Competition (young musician category), 1st place in both piano and cello in 2005 Goodlin Scholarship competition, 2006 ASTA State (CA) Solo Competition for cello, and 2006 San Diego Symphony’s Young Artists Competition.

At age 8, Sarina was featured on the national radio program “From the Top” as a pianist, and featured again 3 years later as a cellist. She was featured on PBS’ “From the Top, Live from Carnegie Hall” TV series in 2007. From 2004 to 2007, Sarina was the youngest member and assistant principal cellist in the San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra Symphony and in July 2006, she went on an orchestra tour to stockholm, sweden, helsinki, Finland, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Sarina has collaborated with San Diego Symphony, New City Symphony, the Northridge Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Esemble 212, In April of 2009, she played the Beethoven’s No.1 piano concerto with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Civic Orchestra under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, and returned again in Sept to play two works on two different instruments-Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Tchaikovoky’s “Rococo Variations” with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of her past performances include an appearance in the prelude to a Discovery concert for La Jolla Music Society, a recital in Athenaeum Music and Arts Library’s Mini-Concert at Lyceum Theatre in San Diego, California International Chinese Music Festival, Juilliard Pre-College recital, and multiple appearances in the Aspen Music Festival’s Spotlight recitals in the past two seasons.

In her coming seasons, Sarina will be making debuts as both pianist and cellist with the Corpus Christi Symphony and the California Symphony. She will also give solo recital in Middle keys 2010 Concert series in Florida. Sarina is currently enrolled in the pre-college division at Juilliard School studying piano with Yoheved Kaplinsky, cello with Richard Aaron, and composition with Manuel Sosa. Her formal teachers include Titiana Stignev, Vladimir Viardo, Zitta Zohar, Lu-yan Guo and Darrett Adkins. Sarina has performed in master classes for Natalie Gutman, Vladimir Feltsman, Hans Boepple, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Ralph Sloan.

French-Romanian pianist Alexandra Joan is an active soloist and avid chamber music musician. A regular performer in Europe, she has appeared in Germany, Switzerland, France and also in Israel and Montenegro. She made her chamber music debut in New York in 2007 at Alice Tully Hall, and most recently made her Carnegie Hall solo debut presented by the Lagesse Foundation. She also performed at David Dubal’s lecture series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.

Along with the masterpieces of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, Alexandra Joan performs new music frequently and is also an advocate of the music of George Enesco. Ms. Joan’s appearances in international Festivals have included Roque d’Antheron International Piano Festival in France, Guebwiller, Colmar International Festival (Vladimir Spivakov), Oberstdorf Festival in Germany and other prestigious festivals and concert series in France. Ms. Joan has performed as soloist with “La Follia” Chamber Orchestra, The Montbeliard Orchestra, The Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra in France and The Orchestra of Radio and Television in Montenegro. Her solo and chamber music performances have been featured on Radio France, Radio Suisse Romande (Switzerland), on Montenegro Television and WQXR in New York.

Ms. Joan has been a recipient of several important awards in France. She has received the “Vocation Prize” from the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation in 2005 and the ADAMI Grant in 2006 and 2007 to study in the United States. In 2001, she won the 3d Prize at the Andorra International Piano Competition. Born in 1984, Ms. Joan began her studies at the Colmar Conservatory with Rena Shereshevskaya and gave her first public performance at the age of six.
In 2004 she completed her Bachelor of Music Degree at the Paris Conservatory under the tutelage of Brigitte Engerer. She worked with artists such as Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Itamar Golan, Vladimir Krainev, Vera Gornastaeva, Staffan Scheja, Pnina Salzman and Emanuel Krasovsky. A recipient of the Florence Gould Scholarship. Alexandra Joan recently graduated from the Juilliard School of Music where she completed her Graduate Diploma as a student of Jerome Lowenthal’s.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, December 21st @ 12:30pm:
Violinists Paolo Alberghini and Bruno Peña, Violist Kristin Sawyer, Cellist Sokol Nikaj and Pianist Enika Gjokoreci

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Stradivarius on display Madrid’s Palacio Real

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, December 7 at 12:30pm
Violinist Christine Kwak with Pianist Edward Laurel

On Monday, December 7th at 12:30pm, violinist Christine Kwak will perform a program featuring works by Strauss, Ravel, Sarasate and Bazzini with pianist Edward Laurel.

Violinist Christine Kwak had already made her debut at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Alice Tully Hall by the age of 11. At that tender age, she recorded the complete 24 Caprices by Paganini on a half-size violin, about which Dorothy DeLay has commented, “…one of the most astonishing accomplishments and truly remarkable; one of the best caprices I’ve ever heard.” Christine has been on the front pages of the New York Times, Daily News, Newsday, and Village Voice among many others. Her teacher, the late Dorothy DeLay, renowned for producing many of the world’s finest soloists, said Christine is “an extraordinary talent who will become one of the best of her generation”.

Born in New York City, of a musical family, she began piano studies at the age of 3, and violin at the age of 4. She was first discovered on CNN’s “About Child Prodigies” at age 5, playing piano and violin as well as several of her own piano compositions.

Christine first came to public spotlight at the age of six, when she performed the Kabalevsky violin concerto with The Queens Chamber Symphony. She subsequently performed the concerti of Vivaldi, Bach, and Mozart. She has appeared a number of times with the orchestras of the Charles Ives Festival Orchestra in Connecticut; The Yonkers Philharmonic; The Little Orchestra Society at Alice Tully Hall; and Orchestra New England at Charles Ives Center. At the age of 9, Christine made her Lincoln Center debut at the Avery Fisher Hall with American Symphony Orchestra performing “Carmen Fantasy”, a program telecast nationwide for Korean Television. The critics raved about the performance and wrote “at the tender age of nine, Christine is a complete violinist who would make any violinist envious.” She was featured as “the most promising talent of the next generation” by Strad magazine.

In the summer of 1996 at the age of 10, the Mozart Festival with the Sea Cliff Chamber Orchestra featured Christine as a guest soloist, performing Mozart’s violin concerto in A major, “Turkish”, with cadenzas composed by her. The festival represented Christine as part of the celebration of the young Mozart, where she also played one of Mozart’s piano sonatas. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with The New York Pops Orchestra at the age of 11, and since then has appeared with the Westchester Symphony Orchestra; Queens Symphony; Brooklyn Philharmonic; Colonial Symphony; Bronx Symphony; Westfield Symphony; Walla Walla Symphony; Massapequa Philharmonic; Long Beach Symphony; Yonkers Philharmonic; Colorado Springs Symphony in New Year’s Eve Gala Concert; Orchestra New England; Colonial Symphony; the 4th of July celebration concert at Charles Ives Center with Ives Festival Orchestra, and numerous recitals around the New York Metropolitan area and other cities across the country. Christine also appeared at The Caramoor Music Festival on Performer’s Showcase Series a number of times. Christine has appeared on the Sally Jessy Raphael show, as well as NBC News and Fox Channel 5. She also performed for the First Lady, Hillary Clinton, on her visit to New York, which was aired on ABC Channel 7.

During the 2007-2008 season, she was featured as a soloist with the Westchester Philharmonic at the Performing Arts Center Purchase College, as well as the Livingston Symphony. Christine also appeared with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall for the second time, premiering a piece arranged for her by Marvin Hamlisch. This upcoming season, Christine will be world premiering a concerto, written exclusively for her by composer Craig Morris, with the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra. She is also engaged for solo appearances with various orchestras in different cities of South Korea.
Christine graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a B.A. degree in philosophy and music. She subsequently continued her studies at Juilliard, as a student of Stephen Clapp, where she received her M.M. degree in 2009. She has also been a pupil of the late Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School.

She has previously performed on the Guarneri del Gesu ex-Kreisler, Guarneri del Gesu ex-Goodman, circa 1735, and Guarneri del Gesu ex-Kurtz, circa 1728.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, December 14th, 2009 @ 12:30pm
Cellist Sarina Zhang with Pianist Alexandra Joan

Monday, December 21st @ 12:30pm:
Violinists Paolo Alberghini and Bruno Peña, Violist Kristin Sawyer, Cellist Sokol Nikaj and Pianist Enika Gjokoreci

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What better way to start out a Friday the 13th than with a yummy breakfast at the Breslin?

The Breslin, with quite an unassuming facade, is adjacent to the Ace Hotel main entrance and accessible from the Hotel’s lobby.

Just a few blocks from the office, it makes a perfect breakfast spot. The restaurant’s diners are a good combination of tourists and locals having breakfast before starting their day.

Breakfast started off with a full French press of strong delicious coffee ($7.50).

For the meal, the author and guest had the pumpkin pancakes with spiced chili pecan butter ($14) and skirt steak with green sauce and fried eggs ($17), respectively. The pancakes were unbelievably light and tasty; the steak was tender and perfectly cooked. Both dishes were delicious. (Check out the mouth-watering pictures below).

Service was very attentive.

It’s a great addition to the neighborhood.

The next time you get into the area before your scheduled meeting at your New York virtual office, stop in for a great breakfast at the Breslin.

Ace Hotel New York City: 20W 29th Street

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Stradivarius on display Madrid’s Palacio Real

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, November 23 at 12:30pm
Violinist Angelia Cho and Pianist Dina Vainstein

On Monday, November 23rd @ 13:30pm, violinist Angelia Cho will perform with pianist DIna Vainshtein works by Schumann, Debussy, Chopin and Ravel.

Violinist Angelia Cho is gaining widespread recognition as one of the most versatile soloist and chamber musicians of her generation. Ms. Cho’s solo and ensemble performances have taken her all over the US, Europe, and Israel performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, Kimmel Center, Verizon Hall, Academy of Music, Kennedy Center, Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, and The Musikverein Hall. In Fall 2007, Ms. Cho joined The Academy—a fellowship program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. Since joining The Academy, she has performed chamber music regularly in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall among other venues in New York and on the East Coast. She appeared as soloist with many ensembles including Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Israel Kibbutz Orchestra and Allegro Society, NEC Symphony, and has collaborated with conductors Mark Laycock, Daniel Meyer, Luis Biava, Shlomo Mintz, and David Lobel.

The Sun Times recently praised Ms. Cho as “formidable”. The New York Times, on a performance of Bartok’s Contrast for violin clarinet and piano called Ms. Cho “a dynamic violinist… won and deserved whoops and bravos from the audience for their visceral account of this familiar work, which had the music sounding freshly and audaciously modern.” The City Paper of Philadelphia wrote, she “Displayed bottomless technique and electrifying passion. Her future would seem to be without limit.”

At the age of four, Angelia made her public recital debut at South Carolina Women’s College, and performed on NBC-TVs PM Magazine. Ms. Cho made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 11 at the Mann Music Center and performed with them again in the Academy of Music three years later.

Angelia Cho received her Bachelor of Music from The Curtis Institute of Music in 2002 where she studied with the late Jascha Brodsky, and later continued her studies with Ida Kavafian. Ms. Cho went on to complete Master and graduate studies with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory.

Angelia Cho was the first prize winner in the National Society of Arts and letters Violin Competition and The New England Conservatory Concerto Competition in 2006. In that same year, Ms. Cho performed ‘Song and Dance’ for violin and wind ensemble by Gunther Schuller. Of the performance, New Music Connoisseur wrote, “ Angelia Cho, whose violin playing traversed both expressive and rambunctious passage work with seemingly effortless expertise.”

Ms. Cho has explored and dedicated her time to performing contemporary works that led her to work closely with today’s most renowned composers such as Gyorgy Kurtag, Gunther Schuller, Steve Reich, and Michael Gandolfi. Angelia’s festival appearances have included Kneisel Hall, Sarasota, Verbier, Keshet Eilon Violin Mastercourses in Israel, International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, England and Yellow Barn Music Festival.

Ms. Cho, a passionate chamber musican has performed and collaborated with members of the Cleveland Quartet, Donald Weilerstein, Paul Katz, Michael Cannon, Katherine Murdock, Roger Tapping. In 2006, Ms. Cho co-founded the ensemble, [A Far Cry], Boston’s Unconducted String Orchestra.

Russian-born pianist Dina Vainshtein has degrees from the Gnessin Institute of Music in Moscow, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music.

Her principal teachers were Boris Berlin and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein. Ms.Vainshtein received a Special Prize for Best Collaboration at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1998). She also won prizes at the Schubert and Music of Modernity International Competiton in Austria (1997) and the All-Union Russian Piano Competition (1993). Ms Vainshtein has performed at such prestigious venues as Alice Tully Hall and Weill Hall in New York City, Jordan Hall in Boston and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

She has also performed at Ravinia Festival, Caramoor Festival, Sunriver festival, Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara), Meadowmount and Heifitz International Music Institute. Ms Vainshtein has appeared as a soloist with I Musici de Montreal (under the direction of Yuli Turovsky) and as a guest artist with the Borromeo String Quartet. She has given live performances on WGBH (Boston), WFMT (Chicago) and for NPR’s Performance Today series. Her recorded for the Naxos label with violinists Frank Huang and Michi Wianko.

At present Ms. Vainshtein is a staff pianist at the NEC Department of Preparotory and Continuing Education and the Walnut Hill School.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, November 30th @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Pei-Wen Liao and Pianist Evan Solomon

Monday, December 7th @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Christine Kwak

Monday, December 21st @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Paolo Alberghini, Violist Kristin Sawyer, and Cellist Sokol Nikaj

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Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, November 9 at 12:30pm
Violinist Ju Yeong Moon and Pianist Jeeyoung Hong

On Monday, November 9th at 12:30pm these two talented musicians come back at WMP for a Strad for Lunch! On the Menu: Mozart, Schubert and Saint-Saëns.

23-year old Korean violinist Ju Yeong Moon recently made her debut as a soloist with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra under maestro Vladimir Altschuler at Russia’s Shostakovich Philharmonic Great Hall. She also has appeared as soloist with the Saint Petersburg Chamber Orchestra with Alexander Kantrov at Glinka Maly Zal, with the New York Sinfonietta at Merkin Concert Hall, and with the New Seoul Philharmonic at Seoul Arts Center, Korea.

She made her New York debut at Weill Recital Hall, and has also performed in Steinway Hall, Great Neck Library and Montauk Library Concert Series. She was featured on WQXR “Robert Sherman’s Young Artist Showcase” as a result of winning the Friday Woodmere Young Artist Competition. She also holds first prizes in the New York, Korean Times, and Music Journal Competitions and a top prize in E-wha kyunghyang competition. She has received the fellowship for the Aspen Music Festival.

As a scholarship student she earned her Bachelor of Music Degree at The Juilliard School studying with Cho-Liang Lin, and the Master Degree under the tutelage of Kyung Wha Chung. She was the recipient of the Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship.

A native of Seoul, Korea, collaborative pianist Jeeyoung Hong started to play the piano at the age of five. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Arthur Balsam Duo Competition in New York, the Teenager Competition, Korean Times Competition, and Korea-Japan Professor Association Competition. After graduating Yewon, Seoul Arts High School, and Yonsei University, she earned her master’s degree and professional studies certificate in accompanying at Manhattan School of Music, where she established herself as a collaborative pianist and chamber musician in the New York metropolitan area. She has performed in master classes of various distinguishable artists such as Dalton Baldwin, Anne Eperson, Jonathan Feldman, Pamela Frank, Margo Garrett, Thomas Hampson, Bang Won Han, Ralph Kirshbaum, Robert McDonald, Jaime Laredo, Robert Mann, and Lambert Orkis, and Alan Stepansky.

Frequent collaboration with renowned instrumentalists and singers have led Ms. Hong to such venues as the Icicle Creek Music festival in Washington, the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, the MusicAlp in France, the Songfest in Malibu, and the New Triad in New York City. She has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia appearing with various ensembles and programs at such venues as Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the Hahn Hall, the Advent Lutheran Church, and Young-San Art Hall. The instrumentalists she performed together include cellists Edward Arron, Michael Nicholas, violinists Amaury Coeytaux, Daniel Khalikov, and Krzysztof Kuznik to name a few.

She has wide range of string and vocal repertoire and worked as a staff pianist at Charlie Castleman’s Quartet Program, and at Great Mountains Music Festival and School. Since 2001, Ms. Hong has been a staff accompanist of both of the preparatory and the college division at MSM, working for studios of Joan Caplan, Mignon Dunn, Marrion Feldman, David Geber, Hilda Harris, Patinka Kopec, Mark Nuccio, Maitland Peters, Ashley Putman, Lucie Robert, Sylvia Rosenberg, Neil Rosenshein, and Pinchas Zukerman. Currently, she is pursuing her Doctorate degree in Accompanying at Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Heasook Rhee as a scholarship recipient.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future Shows:

Monday, November 16th @ 12:30pm
Violinist Sami Merdinian and Pianist Kariné Poghosyan

Monday, November 23rd @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Angelia Cho and Pianist Dina Vainstein

Monday, November 30th @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Pei-Wen Liao and Pianist Evan Solomon

Monday, December 7th @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Christine Kwak

Monday, December 21st @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Paolo Alberghini, Violist Kristin Sawyer and Cellist Sokol Nikaj

More Details and Source: WMP Concert Hall

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Antonio Stradivari

Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.

Monday, November 2 at 12:30pm
The Ansonia Trio

On Monday November 2nd at 12:30pm, this new trio called Ansonia Trio will perform works by Beethoven, Ravel and Piazzolla. The Ansonia Trio is a newly-formed trio made up of violinist Angelia Cho, cellist Laura Metcalf, and pianist Akiko Chiba.

The Ansonia Trio was formed in January of 2009 by three accomplished young soloists who came together as a trio with the goal of presenting programs that engage and inspire modern audiences. They presented a pair of debut concerts in the spring of 2009 for the New York House Concert series and the muendo concert series. These concerts featured a newly-commissioned arrangement of Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin arranged for piano trio by New York composer Matt Van Brink, which was recently published by Schott. Highlights of the upcoming season include concerts on the Strad for Lunch series at the WMP Concert Hall/Gradoux-Matt Rare Violins and the Music at Bunker Hill series, as well as numerous outreach and commissioning activities.

WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.

Future shows:

Monday, November 9th 2009 @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Ju Yeong Moon and pianist Xiaojing Chang

More Details and Source: WMP Concert Hall

Open your office in this cultural and trendy neighborhood today!

Website: Manhattan Virtual Office
Tel: 1.212.627.8900
Fax: 1.646.861.6610

Since 1990.

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