Introducing Virginia Kron,
cellist
Virginia Kron, "an accomplished cellist of no small
talent" (L.A. Times) holds a master's degree from USC, where she graduated
with a prize in performance. She has participated in festivals in Tanglewood,
Aspen, Monterey, Bakersfield, Bear Valley and Ojai, and is currently a tenured
member of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in Santa Cruz.
As an active chamber musician, Ms. Kron has appeared with
the Sacramento String Quartet, the Pacifica Quartet at the Sedona Chamber
Music Society, the Rochelle Abramson Ensemble, and Nouvelle Image. She has
also performed at the Ventura County Chamber Music Festival. She performs
regularly as a guest artist for William Kraft's Ensemble for Contemporary
Music. She has contributed numerous times to Sundays at Four, KUSC's live-performance
radio broadcast, and performed recently on an alumni concert for the Music
Academy of the West. Last season she appeared as guest artist for the MTA
and premiered in the octet ensemble for John Biggs' opera, Hobson's Choice.
This season she appeared in the solo cello part in Benjamin Britten's opera
Noye's Fludde and returned to the Current Sounds New Music Consortium with
a performance of Britten's challenging Suite for Cello, Op.72.
In 1997 she premiered John Biggs' Concerto for Cello and
Chamber Orchestra with New West Symphony and recorded it in Prague with
the Czech National Symphony for the Albany label. Other recording credits
include Gratitude and Celtic Christmas II with Celtic harpist, Kim Robertson,
and another CD of vocal chamber music (just out) of John Biggs, A Vocal
Bouquet. Ms. Kron also produced an independent childrens' musical narrative,
The Crystal Harp, called an "excellent original fairy tale" by
Bookwatch with "delightful music" (American Library Association).
Thursday January 3 & Friday January 4
2002 at 8PM
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