Region – The Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra (CHSO) launches into 2018 with a series of January and February concert presentations in venues throughout Metrowest and Blackstone Valley.
The Claflin Hill “Milford Federal Jazz at the Mill Series” resumes Friday, Jan. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Singh Performance Center at the Alternatives Whitin Mill, 50 Douglas Road, in Whitinsville.
For this installment of the new jazz series Claflin Hill presents “The Stanahan – Zaleski – Rosato Trio.” Formed in 2010 for a special concert in Montreal, the co-led trio has since released two albums and toured internationally, including performances at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Thailand International Jazz Conference, and The Jazz Standard. This concert is also a “special homecoming” for pianist Glenn Zaleski, who grew up in West Boylston and studied piano and jazz at the Joy of Music Program in Worcester until his high school graduation.
The CHSO “Milford Federal Jazz at the Mill Series” is made possible with Claflin Hill Business Partner grants from ERA Key Realty and Milford Federal Savings & Loan Association, as well as a grant from the Northbridge Cultural Council.
The Inaugural Season of the new CHSO Apple Tree Arts Chamber Music Series continues Saturday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Apple Tree Arts facility at One Grafton Common with “Stirring String Mastery.” The concert features principal string performers from the Claflin Hill Symphony – CHSO first violinists Lidija Peno and Dimitar Krastev, with principal violist Dimitar Petkov and principal cellist Johann Soults. The quartet will be joined by CHSO Founder and Director Paul Surapine on clarinet for a performance of the “Mozart Clarinet Quintet” and Bartok’s “Romanian Dances.” The “String Quartet” of Johannes Brahms will also be featured, as well as a world premiere of a new work by Rhode Island Composer Vern Graham – “The Happy Birthday Suite” in celebration of the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which falls on that date.
The CHSO Apple Tree Arts Chamber Music Series is made possible with support from CSR Financial Services, Homefield Credit Union, The Brigham Hill Foundation Trust and Koopman Lumber.
Tickets for both concerts are $19; $15 student/senior/veteran; and can be purchased online at www.claflinhill.org
The CHSO will resume its 2017-18 “Coming of Age Season” Saturday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Milford Town Hall Grand Ballroom, 52 Main St. On this installment of the orchestras “world tour” this season, the orchestra will take its audience to “Mother Russia” for a monumental and colorful program featuring works of two of the greatest romantic composers to ever come from Russia – Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No. 2,” featuring Beth Surapine as piano soloist, and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s colorful and exciting “Scheherazade,” based on the tales of “1001 Arabian Nights.”
Tickets range from $25-$40 and are also available at www.claflinhill.org.
“From the Heart” is made possible with Claflin Hill Business Partner grants from The Waters Corporation and International Power Milford and Medway Oil and Propane.
