December 13 House Concert

Michael and Alice's Virtual Chamber Music Concert

December 13, 2020 at 3:00 PM

Please join us for an afternoon of music and community, all from the comfort of your own home! We will show a recent recorded concert that was sent to our program partners and chat with the musicians about their experience with SMB. Founder and Artistic Director Julie Leven will share the organization's mission and how classical music can bring dignity to all.

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Concert Program

Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces for String Quartet) Op. 5 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
I. Prelude

Lyric Quartet for String Quartet by William Grant Still Jr.
II. The Quiet One

String Quartet Op. 59, No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven
IV. Allegro molto

Founder and Artistic Director

Julie Leven, Founder and Artistic Director, Shelter Music Boston founded Shelter Music Boston in 2010 to create a social service organization able to provide an immediate positive impact with classical music performances in environments of great need. Julie was named a Boston Neighborhood Fellow in April 2014, 2013 Social Innovation Forum Classical Music Innovator and is a 2012 graduate of the BU School of Management Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership. She is a member of the Handel + Haydn Society Orchestra and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. When not playing concerts or dreaming up new projects for SMB, she is passionate about organic farming and an avid Argentine tango dancer.

Musicians

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Born in Puerto Rico, Javier Caballero received his Bachelor’s Degrees in Cello Performance and Music Education from the University of South Florida and a Master’s Degree and Graduate Performance Diploma from the Boston Conservatory. He is currently the Artistic Director of Project STEP and previously served as the Scholarship and Recruitment Manager at From the Top. He is on faculty at the Point Counterpoint (VT), Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Junior Strings Intensive (MA) and Apple Hill (NH) summer camps. Performances have taken Mr. Caballero from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and Jordan Hall to clubs such as Ryles Jazz Club and Makor (NYC). Equally at home performing musical theater at Boston Lyric Stage, early music with Florida Pro Musica, white water rafting with a string quartet in Utah, or performing in homeless shelters with Shelter Music Boston, he has also recorded several albums with Middle Eastern, New Age, Balkan and Indie Rock groups. Tours have included a trip to China and several visits to the Middle East as part of the Baroque Festival organized by the Al Kamandjati Music Center.

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Described as a “charismatic and captivating performer,” Ashleigh Gordon has recorded with Switzerland's Ensemble Proton and Germany's Ensemble Modern; performed with Grammy-award winning BMOP and Grammy-nominated A Far Cry string ensemble; and appeared at the prestigious BBC Proms Festival with the Chineke! Orchestra. She can be heard on chamber music and orchestral recordings under the Mode, Siemens, BMOP/Sound, Navona and Musiques-Suisse record labels. In addition, Ashleigh is co-founder, Artistic/Executive Director and violist of Castle of our Skins, a Boston-based concert and educational series devoted to celebrating Black Artistry through music. In recognition of her work, she has presented at IDEAS UMass Boston Conference and 180 Degrees Festival in Bulgaria; has been featured in the International Musician and Improper Bostonian magazines as well as the Boston Globe; and was awarded the 2016 Charles Walton Diversity Advocate Award from the American Federation of Musicians. She is a 2015 St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award recipient, a 2019 Brother Thomas Fellow, a nominee for the 2020 "Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities,” and named one of WBUR’s “ARTery 25”, twenty-five millennials of color impacting Boston’s arts and culture scene.

Violinist Annegret Klaua is a performer and educator based in Somerville, MA. Passionate about contemporary music, Annegret spent eight summers in Winston-Salem, performing and teaching 20th and 21st century music and thought to gifted high school students at the Governor’s School of North Carolina. As an orchestral musician, she performs with the Bach, Beethoven, & Brahms Society, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Portland Symphony Orchestra. Dedicated to social change, health and human rights, Annegret works for the Institute for Health and Recovery on tobacco education and treatment integration, training mental health and substance use treatment providers throughout Massachusetts. She previously worked on refugee mental health and for a decade was a volunteer rape crisis counselor and peer supervisor with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center's Medical Advocacy program.

Violinist Yonah Zur has performed throughout Israel, the US, and Europe. He has had solo appearances with the Jerusalem Symphony, the Israel Contemporary Players, and the Israel Camerata Jerusalem. He has recently appeared as a guest with the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Lydian Quartet at Brandeis University, and DeCoda at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Zur has participated in the Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Tanglewood, Newburyport and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern summer festivals. He currently teaches at the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and he has been engaging young new audiences with chamber music for the past twenty years. He has taught at Harvard, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Opus 188 Harlem School of Music and the JCC Tenafly. He graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance having studied with Avi Abramovich, and earned his Masters at The Juilliard School with Robert Mann. He was a recipient of the AICF scholarships from 1995-2003.