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UPCOMING INTERLUDE CONCERT

Salvador Flores (saxophones) & Andrew Kosinski (piano)

Saturday, March 22, 2025, 4:00 PM

Saxophonist Salvador Flores returns after competing as a finalist in the 10th Chamber Music Competition with the Aero Quartet in 2022. The Aero Quartet won the audience’s hearts at the competition and has since returned to the Ebenezer Theater to perform an Interlude Concert in 2023. They also participated in Chesapeake Music’s YouthReach programming focused on educational outreach. Flores will be joined by composer, conductor, and pianist Andrew Kosinski. The duo will perform works across a wide variety of genres — including classical, jazz, Latin, and fusion — while also presenting an original work by Kosinski and a world premiere by Alex Tedrow.

FULL ARTIST BIOS & SAMPLE PERFORMANCES

Born in Houston, TX, Salvador Flores is a saxophonist, educator, and emerging young soloist whose career has taken him to venues such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the White House, Lila Cockrell Theatre, Hill Auditorium, and the New World Center. He has been accompanied by a variety of ensembles, including The U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own”, the University of Michigan Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestras, the Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra, among many others. Recognized as one of the country’s most promising young soloists, he was one of five nationally selected artists to partake in the 2023 Performance Today Young Artist in Residence program. Through this, he engaged in a week of performances, recordings and interviews on America’s most popular classical music radio program Performance Today hosted by Fred Child, aired nationally and listened to by millions.

Over the course of his career, Salvador has been named the recipient of many prestigious awards and prizes from various institutions and competitions. In 2021, upon graduation from the University of Michigan, he became the second saxophonist to receive the School of Music, Theatre and Dance’s most distinguished performance award, the Albert A. Stanley Medal, after GRAMMY award-winning
saxophonist Timothy McAllister. In 2017, he was named a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, earning him an invitation to the White House and performances around Washington D.C. Some of his achievements within the competition circuit include being named the 1st Prize Winner of the 2020 North American Saxophone Alliance Collegiate Solo Competition, a 2020 Yamaha Young Performing Artist, and winner of the 2020 University of Michigan Concerto Competition.

An avid chamber musician, he serves as the soprano chair of the nationally renowned Aero Quartet and frequently appears on chamber music series around the United States. The group has garnered a number of prestigious awards, most notably being named Gold Medalists at the 2021 Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition. Recorded by Abbey Road Studios engineer Jonathan Allen in
Easton’s Ebenezer Theater, the group released their debut album “Aero Quartet” in 2023 under London-based record label Orchid Classics, hitting #14 Best Classical Albums on the Billboard Charts.

In addition to his performance career, Salvador is a sought-after clinician and teacher who enjoys working with students of all ages and musical styles. He’s been invited to give masterclasses at institutions such as the University of Michigan, West Virginia University, University of Notre Dame, and Oakland University, to name a few. He also runs a private studio of middle and high school students in the Washington D.C. area and frequently works with a number of students from across the country.

Salvador has completed both a B.M. and M.M. in Saxophone Performance, as well as an M.M. in Improvisation, at the University of Michigan under the direction of saxophonists Dr. Timothy McAllister and Dr. Andrew Bishop. He currently serves as a member of the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” and is an endorsed Yamaha Performing Artist.

Andrew Kosinski is an American pianist, composer, and conductor hailing from New Jersey. Following early piano studies with Gay Schelling and Geraldine Brahney, Kosinski became a pupil of renowned Steinway Artist Vladislav Kovalsky, a descendant of the Neuhaus School of Pianism. Kosinski has also studied with and performed with pianists such as Min Kwon, Robert Lerhbaumer, David Brooks, and Tibor Szasz.

His performance career has taken him to venues such as Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall, and Count Basie Theatre. An in-demand collaborative pianist, he frequently shares the stage with artists of the highest caliber such as Gregory Turay (former Metropolitan Opera tenor), Eryn LeCroy (former Christine in Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera), and Kenneth DeCarlo (American Ballet Theatre Orchestra). His “tight ensemble work” has contributed to colleagues winning major prizes in competitions, most recently Connor Johnson’s 1st Place Solo Award in the National Trumpet Competition. In July of 2022, Kosinski made his concerto debut in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Vienna International Orchestra at Vienna Concertofest.

An accomplished composer, Kosinski’s works have been commissioned, performed, and recorded across Europe, Asia, and the United States by artists including Tim Fain (violin soloist), Erica Peel (Philadelphia Orchestra), and the Voices of Change ensemble. His piano piece lockdown was broadcast on 103.3 WPRB Princeton “Classical Discoveries,” and his short film score “If” won the Golden Award for Best Music Composer in the 2022 Tokyo Film Awards. Kosinski’s principal composition mentors include Kevin Puts, Robert Aldridge, Scott Ordway, and Amanda Harberg.

Kosinski earned a B.M. in Performance and Composition at Rutgers University and an M.M. in Composition and Music Theory Pedagogy from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. He currently serves as staff arranger for the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” in Washington, DC, and conducting fellow of the Montgomery Philharmonic in Gaithersburg, MD.

CONCERT PROGRAM

subject to change

Astor Piazzolla
1921–1992

Tango Etude No. 3

Álvaro Carrillo
1919–1969

Sabor a Mí

Erroll Garner
1921–1977

Misty

Andrew Kosinski
b. 1998

Where You Are

George Gershwin
1898–1937

Summertime

Intermission

Fernande Decruck
1896–1954

Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano
I. Très Modéré, expressif
II. Andante
III. Fileuse
IV. Nocturne et Final

Alex Tedrow
b. 1999

Andisol* (world premiere)

Alexander Glazunov
1865–1936

Concerto for Alto Saxophone, op. 109

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Sunday, April 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – More information released in February

The Hesper Quartet will be making their own return to the Ebenezer Theater after winning a Silver Prize in the 11th Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition in 2024. The quartet formed in 2022 at the Emerson String Quartet Institute at Stony Brook University. “Hesper” means evening star, and like how each star in the night has its own story, the Hesper Quartet strives to tell the fascinating story of each work they perform. The quartet will be joined by pianist Ying Li, First Prize winner of the 2021 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, as well as recipient of The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Prize and the Tri-I Noon Recitals Prize.

Enjoy recorded selections from these recent Interlude concerts.

Program
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Trio in A Major, Hob.XV:18 Allegro moderato
Andante
Allegro
Robert Schumann: (1810-1856)

Carnaval, arr. Hong for piano quartet
Natalie Loughran, viola
Zhu Wang, piano

INTERMISSION

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
(1932-2004)

String Quartet No. 1 “Calvary”

 Allegro
Adagio
Rondo. Allegro vivace

Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971)

Petrouchka, arr. Hong for piano quintet

Tableau I: The -tide Fair
Tableau II: Petrouchka”s Room
Tableau III: The Moor’s Room
Tableau IV: The Shrove-tide Fair
Towards Evening

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