The American Sound

Experience the full range of the "American Sound" from the 30s and 40s in this recital of violin and piano music by all American composers.

Program

Sonata for Violin and Piano by Aaron Copland
Suite for Violin and Piano by William Grant Still
Inner Mongolia Suite, mvt. 2, "Nostalgia" by Ma SiCong
"Marietta's Lied" by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
"Banjo and Fiddle" by William Kroll

Violinist Veronica Carpenter is an impassioned violinist and music educator based in New York City.  She has performed with such ensembles as the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and has shared the stage with many musical greats such as Andrea Bocelli, Rachel Barton Pine, and Chris Thile.  Her musical interests are broad, and career highlights include touring with a Boston-based Irish band and collaborations with composers to develop new works for violin and for string quartet. Veronica currently serves as concertmaster for the Regina Opera Company and the Centre Symphony and actively performs with the Chelsea Symphony and New Amsterdam Opera Company, as well as several other community orchestras in the New York area. She received her Bachelor of Music from Northern Arizona University in her home state and received a Masters in the same field from the Boston Conservatory under the tutelage of Katie Lansdale.

Internationally acclaimed pianist Roberto Hidalgo has performed in some of the most prestigious venues in the world and his native Mexico with a repertoire that covers a vast array of works that explore boundaries and creatively challenges his audience’s imagination. Recent performances include a program devoted to the music of Nicolai Medtner, at the David Greer Hall, Bloomingdale School of Music and the Mexican premiere of George Crumb’s Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik, at the Urtext Festival in Mexico City. He has toured Chile with concerts in Concepción, Santiago and Viña del Mar; also, he has played at the Scriabin Museum and Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow; Collegial Saint-Julien in Tournon, France; Komitas Hal in Yerevan, Armenia; and Philharmonia Hall in Minsk, Belarus. He offered a lecture-recital at Moscow Conservatory on Mexican music of the 20th and 21st Centuries. He has been invited as soloist by the Orquesta de Minería, Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa and Orquesta de Baja California. Carlos Miguel Prieto, Fernando Lozano and Grzegorz Nowak are some of the conductors he has worked with. Festivals and series include Friends of Mozart, in New York, Festival Cervantino, in Mexico, Compositores del Caribe Festival, in Medellín, Colombia, August-to-April Series at Festival Hill, Round-Top, TX and numerous presentations organized by the Mexican Cultural Institute both in New York and Washington, DC. He has offered Mexican premieres of works by George Crumb, Emmanuel Nunes and Sebastian Currier among others. His New York recitals at Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall have been enthusiastically received by the press and public. In addition, he keeps an ongoing partnership with Marc Peloquin with whom he has formed the Split Second Piano Ensemble presenting a wide array of works for two pianos in venues such as the KeyedUp Music Project in New York and Festival Hill at Round-Top. He holds a bachelors and masters degree from Mannes College of Music and a doctoral degree from Manhattan School of Music.

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