Gualala Arts Presents a Chamber Music Concert with Wyatt Underhill and Robert Howard
The Gualala Arts Chamber Music Program continues in March with guest artists Wyatt Underhill, violin, and Robert Howard, cello. This online! only concert is set for Sunday, March 14, 2021, beginning at 4:00pm. Information about connecting online to the concert is at GualalaArts.org.
The planned program will include the “Suite Italienne” by Igor Stravinsky, and “Sonata for Violin and Cello” by Maurice Ravel. Both pieces were (initially) written in Paris in 1920—pretty unusual! Stravinsky’s music first appeared as the ballet score to “Pulcinella”. He later arranged the same music multiple times, including this rarely performed version made for Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky. Both highlights from the Parisian 20s, this is the musical backdrop to the film “Midnight In Paris”. Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Ravel, Picasso, Chanel, Satie, Matisse, and Cocteau all lived there, knew each other, and fed off each other’s work—a concentration of talent and innovation unlike any before or since.
Wyatt Underhill, a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and the Juilliard School, joined the San Francisco Symphony as Assistant Concertmaster in 2018 after having served as assistant concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony, and substitute concertmaster with the New Haven Symphony. He's won top prizes in the Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings and the Minnesota Orchestra Young Artist Competition. Guest performances as soloist include the Milwaukee Symphony, Concord Chamber Orchestra, and in recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
A graduate of Rice University and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Robert Howard also attended the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy and the Sandor Vegh Academy in Prague. He won first prize in the Rome Festival Competition and has performed in the Festival Internacional de Musica in Costa Rica, the Festival de Guadarama in Spain, and on the Mostly Mozart series in Lincoln Center. Locally, he has performed with American Bach Soloists, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, and the San Francisco Symphony.
Make plans to “attend” this concert via Zoom on Sunday, March 14.
Hear the concert again (or for the first time) via this link: Underhill/Howard Chamber Concert
