Broadway Theater hosts Piatigorsky performance
The Rock Springs Main Street/Urban Renewal Agency (URA) will host a free clarinet and piano performance at the Broadway Theater on Oct. 16 at 7 p.m.
The tour features clarinetist Katsuya Yuasa. The soloist and his accompanist, Mary Au, will travel throughout the state this month, hosting free public concerts and school outreach programs.
A charismatic and versatile clarinetist, Katsuya Yuasa has been praised by critics as a “born performer with rare ability to express the beauty and soulfulness of the composer’s music.”
He’s toured in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia as a concert soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Born in Kobe, Japan, he is presently the International Concert Artist of Mu Phi Epsilon (MPE) and Professor of Clarinet at Florida A&M University. He is a founding member of Duo Esplanade (flute, clarinet) and Cosmos New Music (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano). An inventive artist, he explores a wide repertoire of classical, jazz, ethnic, pop, rock, and contemporary music.
The Broadway Theater concert is the the first stop in a Wyoming tour by the Piatigorsky Foundation, a New York-based organization that is named after renowned Russian cellist Gregory Piatigorsky, who believed music is not a luxury for an elite few, but a necessity of life for all.
The Wyoming Arts Council has partnered with the Piatigorsky Foundation for six free performances in Wyoming this month, including stops in Rawlins, Sinclair, Shoshoni, Meeteetse, Dubois and Rivertion.
The Piatigorsky Foundation works to bring the joy of live classical music to communities throughout the country. The Wyoming tour is made possible by the generous support of the Muriel & Seymour Thickman Family Charitable Trust in Sheridan. The WAC partners with the Piatigorsky Foundation to book the tours each year.
For more information about the Piatigorsky Tours, contact the Wyoming Arts Council’s Community Development and Arts Learning Specialist Amara Fehring at 307-630-3918 or [email protected].
