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Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc.
in collaboration with Sweet Briar College Janet Lowrey Gager Community Concert Series present French mezzo-soprano Sophie Delphis and pianist Anna Billias in a concert featuring songs by Debussy and Ravel, as well as words of U.S. women poets set to music by composer Ricky Ian Gordon (b.1956). Don’t be surprised if some French Cabaret is heard, too! No ticket is required.
Dr. Anna Billias was trained as a concert pianist at the Prokofiev State Academy of Music in Donetsk, Ukraine (originally the Prokofiev Conservatory of Music) and graduated with advanced degrees in both performance and instruction for piano. During her school tenure, Anna performed with the school’s symphony orchestra as a featured soloist and frequent accompanist throughout the Donetsk Oblast. She received her D.M.A. in piano performance from Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia. During the last thirteen years, Anna was an assistant professor and the Director of Piano Studies and Collaborative Performance at Sweet Briar College, where she also taught Russian language in the 2018-19 academic year. She is currently a part-time accompanist and Lecturer in Music at Washington and Lee University. Anna has performed in numerous concerts at Sweet Briar College; Hampden-Sydney College; the University of Lynchburg; Liberty University; Randolph College; Eastern Mennonite University, Shenandoah Conservatory; James Madison University. Furthermore, she has played in London, England, Paris, France, Crimea, Russia, and Donetsk, Ukraine. Anna has performed in Lynchburg for fundraising events for the Forte Chamber Music Festival, Opera on the James and the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra. She has been invited to judge CVMTA competitions, is a frequent jurist for musical events in Amherst, Lynchburg, and Charlottesville, and regularly volunteers her time performing at local retirement communities. In 2018 Anna collaborated with baritone Dr. Gregory Parker in a concert in Paris, France, and in 2019 she performed concerts in Crimea, Russia, with the renowned artist of Ukraine, Anna Bratus. For the last four years Anna has been giving concerts in the Augusta Correctional Center as a public service project. In her spare time, she is the music director at a local church in Lynchburg, VA, runs an active private piano studio, and is currently pursuing her black belt in karate. Anna enjoys serving as an accompanist for the Rockbridge Youth Chorale in Lexington and giving concerts in the Shenandoah Valley. She is the proud mother of three beautiful, intelligent and musically gifted children, and her husband, Christopher, is a District Court Judge in the Lexington/Rockbridge and Waynesboro courts.
Sophie Delphis was born in Paris, France, and raised partially in the California Bay Area. She received her Bachelor’s with honors from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and her Master’s in voice performance at the University of Michigan, where she was an Andrea Person Voice Scholarship recipient. Sophie has performed with the iSING Festival, UMS (University Musical Society), National Sawdust, Bronx Opera, Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble, Opera Pomme Rouge, Floating Tower and Monk Parrots, among others. This upcoming season, she will be performing with Bare Opera in New York and Opera on the James in Lynchburg. Her operatic roles include: Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Giunone (La Calisto), Carmen (Carmen), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Marla Maples (The Drumf and the Rhinegold, premiere), Cenerentola and Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Concepcion (L’heure espagnole), Mother/Yaga the Witch (Ami and Tami, English-language premiere), Hansel, (Hansel and Gretel), Elle (La voix humaine), Mother/Yaga the Witch (Ami and Tami, English premiere), Debbie (Bum Phillips All-American Opera, in its premiere run), Bianca (The Rape of Lucretia), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Sœur Mathilde (Dialogues des Carmelites), Valetto (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) and Lazuli (L’Étoile). She has performed recital programs and fundraiser concerts for several musical and cultural organizations, including the French-American Cultural Society, Lauren Flanigan’s Saturday Soirées recital series, the Tuesday Musicale of Detroit and the Palo Alto Fortnightly Music Club. In addition, she enjoys collaborating with composers, improvisers and theatre artists on new works. Sophie can be heard as a soloist on the Grammy Award-nominated Naxos recording of Milhaud’s Oresteia trilogy, produced by UMS in association with the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and as the Mother/Witch in the original English cast recording of Matti Kovler’s Ami and Tami. She currently resides in New York City. NO TICKET IS REQUIRED
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Adam Larrabee, guitar and banjo and Ross Martin, acoustic and electric Guitar.
Adam Larrabee has appeared as a sideman on Bruce Hornsby’s album “Spirit Trail” and has involved himself in a wide variety of projects in the past few years from playing banjo in the bluegrass group “Joy Kills Sorrow,” guitar in the chamber-jazz group “Andromeda,” classical mandolin with “The Richmond Classical Guitar Quartet,” and mandocello with “Enigmatica,” recording and performing with rising jazz prodigy Grace Kelly, and his exploration of the music of Central France with “Le Bon Vent.” In 2006, he won an Independent Music Award for his composition “Norwegian Slip” in the world/fusion category. Most recently, Mr. Larrabee has released a duo CD with pianist Bob Hallahan entitled “The Street Where You Live” in addition to a recreation of Duke Ellington’s classic recording “Money Jungle” recording with his current trio with drummer Brian Jones and bassist Randall Pharr. In October 2009, he played banjo with “Love Canon,” backing up rising pop/folk star Josh Ritter on a sold-out two-week tour of Ireland. In Oct 2010 Mr. Larrabee traveled to Ankara, Turkey for the Haceteppe Konservatory Jazz Festival and played in the premiere of “Ben Seni Variations” a work for Orchestra and Jazz Octet by Doug Richards. He taught jazz theory, composition and arranging at The New England Conservatory in Boston for nine years and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and teaches classical and jazz guitar at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, banjo and mandolin at the University of Virginia and improv and small jazz ensemble at James Madison University in Harrisonburg.
Ross Martin plays guitar on stage three times a week on New York’s Broadway for the 2019 Tony Award winning Musical “Hades Town.” Last season he played guitar onstage for “The Girl from the North Country,” featuring Bob Dylan’s Music, at the Public Theatre, also in Manhattan. Mr. Martin grew up in the suburbs of Dallas, TX, with brief stints in East Tennessee, attended the University of North Texas, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies, then headed west. After ten years in the front range area of Colorado, Mr. Martin relocated to the east coast and has lived in Brooklyn, NY, for the past ten years. His musical path has covered as much territory as his physical one. Reflecting his love of diverse genres like jazz, bluegrass, country, folk, experimental, and classical music, he has always felt at home with fellow musicians who seek to reconcile, through their music, the incredible wealth of styles available to listeners in this global and digital age. Mr. Martin has toured and performed with a wide range of artists including Matt Flinner, Tony Furtado, Ron Miles, Mollie O’Brien, The Motet, Caroline Herring, Dwele, Sonya Kitchell, and many others. His parents currently live on South Main Street in Amherst. TICKETSAGAR Amherst Java & Jazz:
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The Staff and Board of Directors of Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) remember fondly and with greatest respect our Board of Directors member Lillian Sawyer Burks, who passed from this life on November 7, 2019. ”Lil“ made many strong contributions to our work, from funding orchestral musicians’ fees for one of our earliest concerts, ”The Biber Project“ featuring violinists Robert and Richard Maxham in 2011, to her faithful role as a greeter at venue doors until spring 2019, when she was 85. Lil, a registered nurse, also advised us on matters of accessibility and arts and health. We extend our sympathy to her family, whom she loved so much. We will miss her
Catherine Bost, Melodie Fletcher, Lynn A. Hanson, Edward E. Kable, Lynn Kable, Donna Meeks,Julia Paris, Linda Zabloski.
Catherine Bost, Melodie Fletcher, Lynn A. Hanson, Edward E. Kable, Lynn Kable, Donna Meeks,Julia Paris, Linda Zabloski.
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Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) | PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533 | (434) 989-3215
Email: AmherstGlebeArts@gmail.com | Facebook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse
Email: AmherstGlebeArts@gmail.com | Facebook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse
