Day concert at 12 noon on Wednesday June 7, 2023 -Join violist Aundrey Mitchell and pianist Nnenna Ogwo for Restless Beauty" in performance of music by Rebecca Clarke and H. Leslie Adams. This concert is free and open to the public, at the beautiful chapel of the Interchurch Center at 61 Claremont - near 120th St and Broadway.
Violist Dr. Mitchell received undergraduate and graduate degrees in viola performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, completed post graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music, and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University. She is also an alumnus of the Taos School of Music and LEcole dArts Americaine at Fontainebleau (France). Her principal teachers were Lucien Joel, Karen Ritscher, and Michael Tree.
Composer-pianist-teaching artist Dr. Nnenna Ogwo is dedicated to engaging listeners of all kinds with performances as a solo artist and with her ensemble, Juneteenth LP. Her unwavering commitment to programming the music of under-represented composers, music of the African diaspora, and also arrangements of familiar modern music by such artists as Stevie Wonder deliver richly layered and satisfying program experiences.