John Malveaux of
writes:
A free concert
featuring acclaimed violinist Annelle Kazumi Gregory will be held on Tuesday
evening, Feb. 5, 2019, in the Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall at 6200 E. Atherton
Street on the campus of California State University at Long Beach.
The hour-long concert
will begin at 8 p.m. Free parking is available along Atherton Street and
paid parking in Lot G 12 just east of Daniel Hall.
Ms. Gregory, who grew
up in San Diego, is a laureate of the 2013 Stradivarius International Violin
Competition and winner in Detroit of the 2017 National Sphinx Competition among
the nation’s young African American and Latin classical string players.
She is a champion of
Russian music and is devoted to reviving the works of great Russian composers.
In 2017 she released the first-ever CD of Sergei Rachmaninoff's complete
violin/piano works, recorded with Russian pianist Alexander Sinchuk (Bridge
Records). The CD has received international acclaim and aired on radio stations
across the U.S. and Europe.
Her most recent
project was the recording of lesser-known works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Taneyev
with the Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra, to be released by Naxos Records in
2019.
Ms. Gregory has
performed as soloist with the symphonies of Houston, Detroit, the Chicago
Sinfonietta, Kiev Virtuosi, in Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, the Kennedy Center
in Washington, D.C., and in the concert halls of San Diego, Nashville,
Santa Monica, La Jolla, as well as in England, Germany, Portugal, Russia, and
Ukraine.
The artist graduated
first in her class, summa cum laude, from the University of Southern
California Thornton School of Music, where she studied under Glenn Dicterow,
former concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic
symphony orchestras.
She was awarded the
2017 Isaac Stern Award and the 2014 Glenn Dicterow Music Scholarship. Other
awards include 1st Prizes in the 2017 “Grand Prize Virtuoso” International
Competition, the 2017 NANM National Strings Competition, the 2016 American
Protégé International Concerto Competition, and the 2017 Beverly Hills National
Auditions. She was a featured soloist for the 2018 International Easter
Festival (Kiev Conservatory), the 2017-18 Sphinx Virtuosi National Tours, the
2016 iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates on behalf of world peace, and
in 2013 opened for the Moscow Ballet, performing a solo with the principal
ballerina.
“Miss Gregory has not
only fine and distinguished sounds plus excellent intonation, but also spirit
galore in the various phases of the multiple moods and variations in
Taneyev’s Concert Suite for Violin. Her facility never wavers
and she has confidence throughout. . . Her playing is exacting and also
exciting,” says Larry Grika, retired first violinist after more than 40 years
with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
In addition to violin,
Ms. Gregory also performs on viola and has played piano, drums, guitar, and
bass guitar. She has also performed tap, jazz, flamenco, and Japanese classical
dance. In her spare time, she enjoys reading Russian classics, cooking, and
playing with her two cats.
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