Lyric Chamber Music Society

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20 W 64th St #27h
Manhattan, NY 10023
212-239-9190
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Description:

Providing a forum to the world's finest performers to explore and expand the repertoire of chamber music in the intimate setting for which it was written.
Discovering, nurturing and introducing to a wide audience up-and-coming young virtuosos from around the world.
Creating music education programs for children and ensuring tomorrow's audience for classical music.
BACKGROUND
Since its debut in 1998, the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York (the Lyric) performs chamber music and unusual repertoire in an intimate salon setting as it was intended to be heard.With eight public concerts each season, we service 1500 on-site affluent and highly educated music lovers in the tri-state area.

The unique Lyric experience offers our audience up-close and intimate access to Concert Masters and Principal Players from the leading international orchestras interpreting masterpieces of chamber music. The Lyrics programming combines classic chamber works and rarely performed compositions mixed with contemporary pieces. CHAMZZ: Classics for the 21st Century is a recent Lyric innovation with programs combining classical music and jazz. The Lyric gives young talent the opportunity to perform with eminent musicians in front of a New York audience, to be reviewed by the national press and to be broadcast on National Public Radio.

PROGRAMS

Lyric in the Schools - The Lyric has brought chamber music to more than 5,000 elementary school students since 1998 in a variety of formats. Our educational outreach in the New York City public schools is part of our commitment to introduce children to classical music. Concert Masters and younger performers have performed from P.S. 1 in Chinatown to the Frederick Douglass Academy and the Harlem Day Charter School in Harlem. Among the many musicians who have participated include Glenn Dicterow, Concert Master and Carter Brey, Principal Cello, NY Philharmonic; Mark Gould, Principal Trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera; the Moscow String Quartet; and MaD Fusion.

The current Artist and Composer-in-Residence is pianist Matt Herskowitz, Oscar- and Grammy -nominated performer and composer and winner of the French Csar for best soundtrack. Other showcased performers include Pianist Tatiana Goncharova, who regularly performs with violinist Pinchas Zukerman; Daniel Boico, Assistant Conductor, New York Philharmonic; clarinetist Igor Begelman, winner of the 2000 Avery Fisher Career Grant; and Salzburg Camarata Concert Master Roman Simovic.

Lyric on the Radio: The Lyric has been offered a weekly music program by WQXR the most listened-to station amongst affluent and highly educated New Yorkers. Excerpts from our vault of 11 seasons of concert recordings are mixed with interviews with performers and composers.

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