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We are pleased to present our inaugural Celebrity Series concert featuring Michael Meraw, baritone, and Leonardo Ciampa, piano/composer. This event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome.Note: This concert will feature the world premiere of Ciampa's work "Trilogia della Luce" (Trilogy of Light), an original poem written in the style of the 1890s, for baritone and piano.
This concert is funded by a grant from the Avidia Bank Charitable Foundation.
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Michael Meraw
Baritone Michael Meraw, Artistic Director of the New England Conservatory’s Undergraduate Opera Studio, has performed with many companies across North America including: Pacific Opera Victoria, Montreal Opera, Seattle Opera, Virginia Opera, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi and Handel, to Webern and Szymanowski. Meraw has garnered critical acclaim in the standard repertoire, winning praise for his Figaro in Rossini’s Barber of Seville and Orff’s Carmina Burana, but he has also brought lesser-known works to new audiences through his incisive portrayals of such roles as King Roger by Szymanowski and Sir John A. MacDonald in Somers’s Louis Riel Mr. Meraw has performed many of the standard baritone parts in oratorio including Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel's Messiah, Judas Maccabeas, Joshua and Israel in Egypt, and the Requiems of Brahms and Fauré.
As well as his regular voice studio at New England Conservatory, Mr. Meraw has become a regular Master clinician and adjudicator at several festivals in China, as well as at AIMS in Graz. Many of his students have gone onto success, winning positions in young artist programs and artist contracts in the United States, Canada and Europe. Michael’s students can include La Scala, the Chatelet, L’Opera Comique in Paris, Minnesota Opera, St. Louis Opera, Montreal Opera, BBC Proms, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra among their recent credits.
Leonardo Ciampa
Leonardo Ciampa is a internationally known organist/pianist/composer. Ciampa is director of music at Our Lady of the Angels in Worcester, MA, Founding Director of the Organ Festival of Worcester, and Maestro di Cappella Onorario of the Basilica in Gubbio, Italy. Ciampa has made more than a dozen European tours as organ recitalist, encompassing Italy, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He has given organ recitals at cathedrals in Vienna, New York City, Boston, Lucca, Altenberg, Brandenburg, Tortona and Biella; at basilicas in Rome, Turin, Loreto, Tortona, Gubbio, Absam, and Rieti; and at abbeys in Dürnstein and Camaiore. As a pianist, Ciampa has performed as a soloist in such venues as Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and Mechanics Hall in Worcester. In 2010 he commemorated Chopin’s 200th birthday with six recitals at First Church in Boston.
Ciampa’s compositions include Suite Siciliana (for two violins, piano and orchestra), commissioned by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston; several cantatas including the Worcester Cantata, premiered by the Salisbury Singers, and
the Helen Keller Cantata, to be premiered by the Heritage Chorale this spring, several organ symphonies including the Kresge Organ Symphony, premiered at MIT and the Worcester Organ Symphony, premiered at Mechanics Hall, Missa
Pamphyliana, premiered at the Basilica di Sant’Ubaldo in Gubbio, Missa Brevis, premiered at the Chiesa Maria Santissima della Confusione in Salemi, Sicily, a piano quintet (premiered by the Lavazza Chamber Ensemble, Suite Divina (Three Dances for Organ), premiered at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City; and numerous organ works which have become part of the active repertoire of organists throughout the United States.
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Event Venue
Edwards Church UCC; Framingham, MA, 87 Elm St, Framingham, MA 01701-3437, United States
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