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Magical Mandolin encore performance
The Friends of the Mozartina Musical Arts Conservatory is pleased to announce the return of the Salon Concert Series at the Mozartina Musical Arts Conservatory, 43 Prospect Avenue, Tarrytown, NY. The series will highlight the faculty of the Conservatory along with their friends. The first concert, titled “Magical Mandolin,” will take place on Saturday, September 8, at 7:00 pm. Performers will be mandolinist Joyce Rasmussen Balint and pianist Yelena Grinberg, performing works by composers including Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Calace, and Hummel.
Admission is limited to 40 people and reservations must be made in advance. Admission is $30 per person; $20 for Mozartina students. Tickets may be purchased by phone: TicketForce: 877-840-0457; Online: www.tarrytownmusichall.org; or in person: Tarrytown Music Hall Box Office, Wednesday through Saturday: 12 pm to 5 pm. For information, please call the Mozartina Conservatory at 914-631-5190.
Joyce Balint, mandolinist and violinist, teaches both instruments at the Mozartina and has been the mandolin soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since l974. One of the country’s foremost classical mandolinists, she has performed many solo recitals and orchestral performances, including with the Paris Opera, Dallas Opera, and the Boston Symphony. As a violinist, she has been an active free-lance performer in the New York metropolitan area, including the MET Opera, the Caramoor Festival Orchestra, the Westchester Symphony, and several opera companies. She currently performs with the Amore Opera in New York City. She also performed duo recitals with her late husband Sandor Balint, as the Balint Duo. “Joyce Balint Shines in a String Recital” was the headline in the New York Times of her Carnegie Recital Hall debut where it said her playing of the mandolin “came close to the ideal” and she played with a “musicianly verve” on the violin. In another performance, the New York Times said of her playing of the Hummel Mandolin Sonata that she “made the most of its sunny, tuneful character.” Ms. Balint will be performing the mandolin in the 2018-19 Met Opera season in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Verdi’s Otello. Ms. Balint lives in Bronxville and is the current president of the Westchester County Federation of Women’s Clubs.
Yelena Grinberg, piano, is hailed for having “established herself as a very fine interpreter…” (NYCR). The Russian-born pianist is highly regarded for her intellectual depth, keen musical insight, and passionate performances as both a solo lecture-performer and a chamber musician with a distinctive preference for unusual and innovative thematic programming. As a winner of the Artists International Competition (2005), she performed her sold-out New York Debut recital of the Baroque Reflections program at Carnegie’s Weill Hall and was highly acclaimed for her “grand performance in a grand tradition” (NYCR). Dr. Grinberg is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Fordham University, is on the piano faculty at the Crestwood Music Education Center in Eastchester, and she maintains an active private piano studio in NYC. Dr. Grinberg is the founder and executive artistic director of the Grinberg Classical Salon Series – an intimate and enlightening series of home salon concerts. The September 8 concert is an encore performance of this summer’s July program on the Grinberg Classical Salon Series. She holds both her doctorate and Masters degrees in Piano Performance from the Juilliard School.