Join Willy Sucre and friends for an evening of String Quartets by Beethoven & Turina.
Showtime: 7:30pm
Tickets: FREE Event
Location: Macey Center
Program
Joaquín Turina (1882-1949)
La Oración del Torero
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 No 1
1) Allegro
2) Allegro vivace e sempre scherzando
3) Adagio molto e mesto 4) Theme Russe: Allegro
Bios
Willy Sucre, Viola
Violist Willy Sucre is a member of the New Mexico Philharmonic and is the driving
force behind the "Willy Sucre & Friends" concerts. Born in La Paz, Bolivia, Sucre
studied at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in La Paz; Colby College Chamber Music
Institute in Waterville, Maine; Mannes School of Music in New York; and the Peabody
Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland.
He was conductor and music director of the Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, assistant
conductor and principal violist of the Canada Symphony Orchestra in Montreal, assistant
conductor and assistant principal violist of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and
principal violist and guest conductor of the National Symphony of Bolivia, the Chamber
Orchestra of La Paz, and the Albuquerque Chamber Orchestra.
As a chamber musician, Sucre was the founder of the Cuarteto Boliviano, guest violist
with various chamber music ensembles, and for ten years the violist of the Helios
String Quartet. Sucre’s experience includes extensive chamber music concerts, lectures,
school demonstrations, CD recordings, and television performances throughout South,
Central, and North America. He spends most of his summers in South America looking
for new works of chamber music by modern composers and encouraging composers to write
new pieces, especially piano quartets. He enjoys performing with ensembles of diverse
instrumentation.
Kevin Connolly, Violin
Violinist Kevin Connolly was exposed to music at an early age playing with his father
and brothers in a family string quartet in Albuquerque. His musical instruction continued
under Jim Bonnell and Kathie Jarrett and later with Leonard Felberg at the University
of New Mexico. Kevin also studied at the Curtis/New School of Music and the Aspen
Music School. He received additional training in chamber music with Jaime Laredo,
the Tokyo String Quartet, and Yumi Ninomiya of the Curtis String Quartet. Kevin has
played with numerous chamber orchestras, including San Diego's Mainly Mozart Festival.
He also has held positions as concertmaster performing domestically with the Santa
Fe and Los Angeles Opera orchestras and overseas with orchestras including the Staatsoper
Hamburg and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He is currently a freelance, professional studio
violinist living in Los Angeles. Kevin has recorded many film scores, including The
Life of Pi that received an Oscar for Best Original Score in 2013. He is married and
has a son, Colin, an eleven-year-old, who already plays the guitar, piano, clarinet
and violin!
Justin Pollack, Violin
Violin Justin Pollak, a native of Santa Fe, first studied the violin under Catherine
Nichols. As a student at the University of New Mexico, he studied with Leonard Felberg
and Bernard Zinck, as well as Kimberly Fredenburgh on the viola. From 2001 to 2011,
he was a violinist with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. Justin is currently a member
of the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and the New Mexico Philharmonic. He frequently
performs with Chatter on both violin and viola. In the winter and spring of 2012,
he played concerts with the Figueroa Project and Opera Southwest.
James Holland, Cello
Cellist James Holland is a native of Pensacola, Florida. He holds degrees in cello
performance from the University of Alabama and the Eastman School of Music. For two
years, James was a member of the New World Symphony, a Miami-based training orchestra
under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In 1996, Holland was appointed principal
cellist of the Charleston (South Carolina) Symphony Orchestra, a position he held
until his relocation to Albuquerque in 2007 with his wife, violinist Megan Julyan
Holland. He performs frequently with most of New Mexico’s musical organizations, including
Albuquerque Chamber Soloists, Chatter, The Figueroa Project, the Placitas Artists
Series, Santa Fe Symphony, and Santa Fe Pro Musica. He spends his summers in Breckenridge,
Colorado as principal cellist of the Breckenridge Music Festival orchestra, a position
he has held since 1998. He can also be heard performing the music of Duke Ellington
with jazz legends Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway on the 2013 IPO Recording release,
Duke at the Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe, which was recently named Best Jazz Album
of the Year by L’Académie du Jazz in Paris, France. Holland was invited by Daniels
and Kellaway to perform with them again at the 2013 Detroit Jazz Festival. He maintains
a large, active private teaching studio.
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