The WBCMF Welcomes Ani Aznavoorian and Andrew Armstrong to the 2023-2024 Chamber Concert Series

Cellist Ani Aznavoorian will perform with pianist Andrew Armstrong on Sunday, April 28th, in the last concert of this third season of the Chamber Concert Series, sponsored by the Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation (WBCMF.) The concert will take place at 3:00 p.m., at the First Congregational Church, 214 Main Street South, in Woodbury, CT.

As a first-year student at The Juilliard School, Ms. Aznavoorian won first prize in the institution’s concerto competition—the youngest cellist in the history of the school’s cello competitions to do so. As a result, she performed with the Juilliard Orchestra in a concert with conductor Gerard Schwarz at Avery Fisher Hall. With only 12 hours notice, Ms. Aznavoorian stepped in to replace Natalia Gutman in three performances of the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 with the San Jose Symphony—concerts that were hailed by the San Jose Press. Other notable appearances include concerts at Weill Hall and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia’s Bennett Hall, Aspen’s Harris Hall, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, WFMT Live from Studio 1, and NPR’s Performance Today. She has been a member of the renowned string ensemble the International Sejong Soloists, and also performs frequently on the Jupiter Chamber Music series in New York. Ms. Aznavoorian received both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School where she studied with Aldo Parisot. In addition to performing, teaching plays an important part in Ms. Aznavoorian’s career. She has been a member of the distinguished music faculty at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, and in the summers has served on the faculty of the Great Mountains Music Festival in South Korea.

Pianist Andrew Armstrong continues to be praised for his passionate expression and dazzling technique. Armstrong has delighted audiences across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic. Andrew’s orchestral engagements across the globe have seen him perform a sprawling repertoire of more than 50 concertos with orchestra. He is a returning favorite of the WBCMF, and the audience will be enchanted, once again, by his talent, his story telling, and his passion for music.

This concert will conclude the four-concert series for the WBCMF Chamber Concerts this year. Tickets for all concerts are available at $30.00 each when purchased on the website. When available, tickets will also be sold at the door on the day of each concert, at $35.00 per ticket. For more information concerning the purchase of individual tickets to the Chamber Concert Series, or to seek further information about our performing artists, please visit the WBCMF website, www.wbcmusicfoundation.org. You may also find them on Facebook, or email them at [email protected].

The concert will take place at 3:00 p.m., at the First Congregational Church, 214 Main Street South, in Woodbury, CT.
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