Based in New York City, cellist Amy Kang is actively involved in a broad spectrum of musical genres. Equally at home in both the concert hall and downtown venues, Amy performs as a classical chamber musician as well as with contemporary Latin American and jazz ensembles. Recent opportunities have brought her to Carnegie Hall and Jazz at Lincoln Center, as well as other notable stages in Argentina, Japan, Panama, Poland, and South Korea. Amy graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English Literature. She is also a visual artist and studied painting at the L’Ecole Marchutz in Aix-en-Provence. Her current project involves transcribing the Bach Cello Suites into a series of paintings through a system of color-pitch correlation. http://www.amykang.com/

Michael Scales is a musician for dance in New York City, where he serves as company pianist for American Ballet Theatre, music director and pianist for New York Theatre Ballet, and class pianist for New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. Michael has performed at numerous venues around New York City including the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center and the 92nd Street Y, and in halls across the country and internationally. Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Dr. Maria Asteriadou, and a Masters of Music degree from James Madison University, where he studied with Dr. Lori Piitz.

Program

Nadia Boulanger, Three Pieces for Cello and Piano (1915) // Vítězslava Kaprálová, Dubnová preludia op. 13 (1938) // Imogen Holst, Fall of the Leaf (1968) // Kate Moore, Velvet (2010)