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Spencertown Academy Presents Classical Sunday with Cellist Anneke Schaul-Yoder and Pianist Derin Oge November 17
Spencertown, New York–Spencertown Academy Arts Center presents Classical Sunday with cellist Anneke Schaul-Yoder and pianist Derin Oge on Sunday, November 17 at 3:00pm at the Academy’s Blanche Grubin Auditorium. The unusual and virtuosic program will include the spiritual and intricate music of JS Bach’s “D Major Gamba Sonata,” Lena Auerbach’s charming and surprising “Preludes,” and Beethoven’s heroic yet contemplative “A Major Sonata.” General admission tickets ($25 public, $20 Academy members) are available via www.spencertownacademy.org.
“Anneke Schaul-Yoder and Derin Oge are bringing an exciting program of repertoire for cello and piano having performed in both period instrument and modern ensembles at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and other venues in New York and beyond,” says Jan Douglas, member of the Academy Music Committee and head of Classical Sunday programming. “We are in for a wonderful afternoon!”
Schaul-Yoder and Oge have been making music together since 2008, first as members of the Piano Music & Song Trio (with composer Jordan McLean on trumpet) and later in the trio Eudemonia (with Alice Jones on flute), as well as a piano/cello duo. They focus on eclectic programs of music with vibrant rhythms and elegant textures. “Green Age,” the duo’s record of works by Martinu and McLean, is available from System Dialing Records.
A native of Istanbul and longtime resident of Brooklyn, Oge brings a worldly and eclectic view to the music that she plays. With classical and contemporary training, she is at home on the concert stage and in the club. She was trained at Mimar Sinan University, and holds a Masters degree from Purchase Conservatory under the tutelage of Paul Ostrovsky, where she later served on piano faculty. She has played extensively with Piano Music & Song Trio, a chamber ensemble that performs arrangements of Impressionist and Romantic songs for trumpet, piano, and cello. Oge is also a founding member of Occasional Noise Trio with trombone and percussion. She has played at such venues as Cornelia Street Café, Mozarteum University, Peter de Grote Festival, The Stone, Flushing Town Hall, Barbes, Roerich Museum, and Symphony Space. In addition, her performance of Mozart’s “Sonata in Bb Major” has been recorded for the European Broadcast Union.
Schaul-Yoder has performed in period-instrument and modern ensembles at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the 92nd Street Y. A chamber musician across the genre spectrum, she plays regularly with the Piano Music & Song Trio; Eudemonia, which presents eclectic programs for flute, cello, and piano; the soprano/continuo Suore Project, which aims to research and record a comprehensive survey of works by 17th-century Italian nuns; and SIREN Baroque, the internationally acclaimed early music ensemble. Schaul-Yoder has been a featured guest on “A Prairie Home Companion,” and appeared on Lincoln Center’s “American Songbook” series, televised on PBS. She has also recorded with the Lumineers, Shawn Mendes, and members of Arcade Fire and Antibalas. She studied with Julia Lichten and Marcy Rosen at Yale, Purchase Conservatory, and Mannes and she plays on a French cello from 1713 by Jacques Boquay.
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Founded in 1972, Spencertown Academy Arts Center is a cultural center and community resource serving Columbia County, the Berkshires, and the Capital region. Housed in a landmark 1847 Greek Revival schoolhouse, the Academy is located at 790 State Route 203 in Spencertown, New York. For more information, please contact info@spencertownacademy.org.