Duo Recital: Clarinet & Piano
- Date:
- Sunday, January 14, 2024
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Wakelin Room
- Campus:
- Main Library
- Audience:
- Adult All Ages Children Teen Tween Young Adult
- Categories:
- Adult Event > Live Performance
Join us for an afternoon of music with Chester Brezniak, clarinet, and Yelena Beriyeva, piano, performing music by George Gershwin, Domenico Scarlatti, William Thomas McKinley, Miguel del Aguila, Aram Khachaturian, and Johannes Brahms.
For more than five decades clarinetist Chester Brezniak has performed extensively as an orchestral and chamber music player throughout the United States as well in France and Greece. Presently, principal clarinetist with the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Brezniak served as principal clarinet with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra, Bridgeport, CT and was a member of the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra. For ten years he played principal clarinet with the Hanover Chamber Orchestra, Hanover, NH; principal clarinet with the Boston Orchestra for the Andrea Bocelli Concert at the the TD Garden, 2016; principal clarinet with the Boston Orchestra for the Weird Al Yankovic New England Summer Concert Tour, July, 2019.
Yelena Beriyeva is an award winning pianist who has touched hearts of listeners all over the world with her powerful yet graceful performances. Her performances have been broadcasted on national, as well as international radio and television stations over the years. She has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in concert halls of the Rep. of Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Wellesley Free Libraries.