About this Event
Culture at Berimbau
THE PIANO: with composer and pianist Trey Walton
Memorable Mondays with live music, conversation, and culture. Presented by Berimbau 2nd Floor and the International Brazilian Opera Company (IBOC), Culture at Berimbau is a three-part salon series exploring the piano, the voice, and the classical guitar. Each evening brings audiences close to the artists through an engaging combination of performance, storytelling and conversation in Berimbau’s intimate cultural space.
On MLK Day, IBOC Institute’s composer Trey Walton (USA) performs his original and select compositions on piano, including those developed over two consecutive years as a participant in the IBOC and Casa Nobre’s Guarda do Embaú, Santa Catarina, Brazil, IBOC Institute composer’s workshop. Trey’s delightful performance style includes storytelling and compositional insights.
About Trey Walton
Ronald Art “Trey” Walton III is a Washington, D.C.–based composer, arranger, pianist, organist, conductor, and educator whose work spans opera, orchestral, choral, chamber, vocal, and organ music. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and internationally, including in Brazil, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
As Composer-in-Residence for the Alliance for New Music-Theatre, Walton co-created a critically acclaimed opera with baritone and librettist Jarrod Lee that premiered in 2022. He is the founder and Executive Artistic Director of BLEU Opera Company, President of the BLEU Opera Foundation, Director of the CAAPA Jazz Ensemble, and conductor of the Mt. Zion Chamber Players Orchestra.
Walton has served as collaborative pianist for the International Brazilian Opera Company’s composers workshop in Brazil and has presented recitals internationally. He teaches piano and organ at the National Conservatory of Arts and serves as organist of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, the oldest Black church in Washington, D.C.
Moderated by IBOC board president Christina Morgan and IBOC artistic director João MacDowell.
The three Berimbau evenings are part of the second edition of IBOC’s Opera Nova NYC biennial concert series. The series is supported in part by the Opera America/Howard Gilman Grant for Small NYC Opera Orgs, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and Berimbau Restaurant.
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3 West 36th Street, New York, NY, USA, United States
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