Chamber Music for Adults

Music Class | This program is completed

Adult

9/10/2022-1/28/2023

6:00 PM-8:00 PM EDT on Wed Sat

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$782.00

$30.00

Wed 6-8PM or Sat 10:30am-12:30pm and 1-3pm The adult chamber music classes are open to pianists, string and wind players interested in a fun and intense chamber music experience at GHMS. The classes are performance oriented and cover a wide range of chamber music repertory from standards such as Beethoven Piano Trios, to music of contemporary composers (some of whom visit the class to coach their music) to lesser known wonders. Additionally, members of Vista Lirica also participate in coaching from time to time. There is a maximum of 10 students per class. For a more in depth look, please visit chamber music at GH.

  • A meeting with the instructor is required before registration. Online registration is not possible. Please call 212-242-4770 for more information.
  • Due to COVID-19 restrictions, class for the fall 2021 term will take place in both the Recital Hall and Room 46 where social distancing protocols will be observed. Masks are required except when playing instruments.
Rynston, Neil

Neil Rynston’s performances have been praised for their “intoxicating clarity” (The Desert Sun) and for being “musically alive and technically brilliant” (Dr. Morton Gold, Journal Tribune). He has been a repeat guest recitalist at Symphony Space, Bruno Walter Hall, the American Landmark Series (NYC), the Dame Myra Hess Series (Chicago), Trinity Church Summer Series (NYC), the Glencairn Series (Philadelphia), the Frye Museum (Seattle), Tenri Institute, Michael H. Lord Gallery (Palm Springs, CA) and has been featured on KING FM (Seattle) and WAMC. He is currently the Artistic Director and founding member of the chamber music ensemble, Vista Lirica. (More about Vista Lirica below.) In past years, he has been concerto soloist and principal clarinetist with several orchestras in New York and Europe: Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland, the Vivaldi Travelling Virtuosi (NYC), the Cosmopolitan Symphony and Opera Manhattan (1990’s). His interest in contemporary music, and specifically neo-Romanticism has led to collaborations with composers David Del Tredici, Lowell Liebermann, Dalit Warshaw, Roger Stubblefield, Michael Rose, Tan Dun, Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Andrew Rudin, Aleksandar Simic and Phillip Lasser. After having received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, Rynston continued his professional training with legendary clarinetist Robert Marcellus at Northwestern University. He was invited by Gunther Schuller to perform at the Sandpoint Chamber Music Festival in Idaho in 1987. That same year he received a stipend to study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He has also studied arts management and German literature at New York University Gallatin Division. After 8 years of teaching clarinet, chamber music (and some piano) at Brooklyn Conservatory (2007-2015), he is happy to continue his teaching at Greenwich House and at his Upper West Side studio. To find out more about Vista Lirica, please visit www.vistalirica.com.