Tune in for WETA’s broadcast of our October concert, Conservation/Exploration, with clarinetist Zachary Good and pianist Natalia Kazaryan on Front Row Washington. This online audio broadcast is free and no registration is required.
PROGRAM
French Baroque Style Brisé Suite for solo bass clarinet
Jessie Montgomery - Peace for clarinet and piano
Germaine Tailleferre - Arabesque for clarinet and piano
Joan Tower - Wingspan for clarinet and piano
Zachary Good - Paco’s One Hundred Years for solo clarinet
Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 120
Olivier Messiaen - Chant (dans le style de Mozart)
Zachary Good is a Chicago-based clarinetist, Baroque recorder player, composer, arranger, and educator. He is clarinetist of the sextet Eighth Blackbird, a founding Co-Artistic Director of the performance collective Mocrep, one-third of the clarinet/percussion/cello trio ZRL, and one-fifth of the ensemble Honestly Same. He has frequently performed with International Contemporary Ensemble, Music of the Baroque Chicago, Manual Cinema, and Ensemble Dal Niente. He has been a featured soloist with International Contemporary Ensemble, DePaul University's Ensemble 20+, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s All Access Chamber Series. His discography includes releases on American Dreams Records, Carrier Records, No Index, Homeroom, Parlour Tapes+, ears&eyes, and more.
Natalia Kazaryan is a concert pianist and co-founder of the Washington Arts Ensemble. From Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, pianist Natalia Kazaryan has been hailed by The New York Sun for her “prodigious ability,” remarking that she “immediately established an atmosphere of strength and confidence.” She is “a marvel among marvels … fascinating, elegant” (Nice-Matin) and “incredible” (All Classical Portland). Dedicated to giving equal platform to female composers in her public appearances, she notably curated and performed a recital of all women composers at the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., a performance The Washington Post named “one of the best classical concerts of the summer 2019.” As a soloist, she has performed both major and lesser-known concertos — including those of Florence Price, Clara Schumann, Rachmaninov, Grieg, Prokofiev, and Mozart — with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, the Harrisburg Symphony, and other ensembles across the country. Ms. Kazaryan’s acclaimed performance of Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement, conducted by James Ross, was featured on Front Row Washington (WETA), DC’s classical music radio station.
