Jason Tramm Leads the Long Island Concert Orchestra in MOZART: AN EVENING WITH THE MASTER

Noted conductor Jason Tramm will lead the Long Island Concert Orchestra and internationally acclaimed pianist Julia Zuilberquit in "Mozart: An Evening with the Master" on April 27th at 8 PM in New York City's historic Good Shepherd- Faith Presbyterian Church. Tickets on sale now Gen Admission $30; Seniors $20; Students $15; Group Rates for parties of 10+ LIconcertorchestra.org

Long Island Concert Orchestra's principal guest conductor Jason Tramm curates an inspirational concert program which chronicles a spectacularly innovative period in Mozart's musical life with three Mozart masterworks, the Overture to Le Nozze Di Figaro (1786), the Piano concerto in A Major No. 23 (1786) and Mozart's Symphony in G Minor, No. 40 (1788). All three works provide insight into Mozart's evolving genius and express in parallel the pinnacle of Classicism and the beginnings of Romanticism.

Tramm, praised by Opera News and Symphony Magazine alike, bookends the concert with selections that illustrate musical historian Bruce Lamott's statement "the instrumentally-inclined critics of the nineteenth century praised Mozart's later operas as symphonies-with-singers, a better understanding ... now allows us to appreciate (Mozart's) symphonies as operas-with-instruments." Tramm begins with Mozart's sweeping Overture to Le Nozze Di Figaro, famously reputed to have been written just a few hours before the opera's premiere and concludes the concert with Mozart's magnificent and evocative Symphony in G Minor, No. 40, uncharacteristically composed in a minor key. Richard Wagner called the symphony "pivotal to the romantic world."

Central to the concert will be Mozart's Piano concerto in A Major No. 23 to be performed by the virtuosic international performing artist, pianist Julia Zuilberquit.

Mozart's Piano concerto in A Major No. 23 for piano and orchestra and conceived in three movements - Allegro, Adagio, Allegro assai - is believed to have been played by Mozart himself in the Spring of 1786. In the framework of Mozart's prolific compositions, it is seen as one of the composer's most intimate and expressive. Reflecting the exuberance and wit of Mozart's Overture to Le Nozze Di Figaro and the provocatively haunting moods evoked through a minor key as in his Symphony in G Minor, No. 40, Tramm sees the Mozart's Piano concerto in A Major No. 23 as a "bridge to the future."

With "Mozart: An Evening with the Master" Tramm and the musicians of the Long Island Concert Orchestra intend to leave audiences uplifted with a new vision of Mozart through his masterworks which profoundly influenced not only the composers of the Romantic era, but those of future musical and artistic genres (literature and cinema) as well.

As the 20th century composer Aaron Copland observed "Mozart tapped the source from which all music flows," ... "expressing himself with a spontaneity, refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

Long Island Concert Orchestra (LICO), was established in September of 2016 by David Winkler, Executive Director of Sea Cliff Chamber Players. The orchestra's mission is to meet Long Island's growing need for a fully professional symphony orchestra. LICO fills a cultural vacuum by providing the Long Island community with professional symphony orchestral programs, free parks concerts, in-school Arts-In-Education programs and other vital endeavors. Completing its first full year of programming in May 2018 LICO has articulated its mission throughout Long Island with successful and well attended summer park concerts and impactful educational programs in performances at The Morgan Park Summer Festival, Tilles Center (Music to the "The Godfather", May 19, 2017) Huntington Arts Festival, Heckscher State (Johnny Mathis Holiday Celebration concert of December 9, 2017) and the Patchogue Theatre.

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