Exhilarating International Recital Spans Generations, Genres, Centuries and Continents

Posted on August 20, 2012 by AmateurPianists No Comments

Anguilla, British West Indies (PRWEB) January 23, 2011 -

In the over­ar­ching world of music, Eastern and Western music are the most notably different in sound and style, however, every geographic region has their own distinctive char­ac­ter­istics. The music of the Caribbean Islands is well-known for its Latin influence, pervasive rhythmic vitality and sensu­ality. Twenty-five year old violinist Andrew Sords will bring his extensive knowledge and mastery of clas­sical Western music to the Eastern Caribbean island of Anguilla. Sords will explore the vulner­a­bility and archi­tecture of each work, pairing his American sensi­bility with the Russian training of collab­o­rator Irina Hoffman Brookes and present a recital with complex inter­na­tional flavors.

On February 12, 2011, EMC Artists and the Anguilla Community Foun­dation present violin virtuoso Andrew Sords performing works by Chopin, Beethoven, John Williams, Schubert, Wieni­awski, Stephen Feigenbaum and Tchaikovsky with Anguilla-based pianist Irina Hoffman Brookes. The concert will be held at the Bethel Methodist Church in South Hill, Anguilla at 7:30 PM (UTC).

Sords is looking forward to this recital as one in which he takes the audience on a journey across different genres, gener­a­tions, centuries and conti­nents. He states, “I am thrilled to bring my tour to Anguilla and expe­rience the culture, meet the music students, and perform on this exotic island.” Sords is espe­cially looking forward to bringing a brand-new work to Anguilla; Stephen Feigenbaum’s “Elegy”, composed in 2010, is being performed by Sords several times this year. The piece evokes an old-world feeling while remaining contem­porary in its design. It is a rare compo­sition that so effort­lessly bridges what is often a great musical divide. Sords elab­o­rates, “I was touched by [Feigenbaum’s] uncanny ability to connect with the very essence of music — to touch audi­ences, to ignite the performers, and to bring across a conver­sa­tional, tonal melody from a living composer — he is a rarity.”

Already a veteran of the concert stage, Sords has appeared with over seventy orchestras and in countless recital venues across three conti­nents. The 2010-11 season will showcase the concerti of Dvorak, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky.

Sords completed his under­graduate education at the Cleveland Institute of Music with violin peda­gogues Linda Cerone and David Russell, and performed for the legendary Midori in master­classes in New York City and at the University of Southern Cali­fornia. Sords most recently studied under inter­na­tionally acclaimed violinist Chee-Yun at The Southern Methodist University of Dallas, Texas in the Artist Diploma program.

In 2008, Sords received inter­na­tional exposure as the top Google Clas­sical News story as well as crowning the “Top-40 Charts” in Clas­sical Music. During the 2009-10 season, Sords was a featured guest on NPR’s “Morning Edition”, Dallas’ WRR, Boise State Public Radio, and numerous other media outlets. Sords was profiled by the Reno Gazette Journal, The Derek and Romaine Show, and The Sun News among others.

Sords is the winner of the 2005 National Shirley Valentin Violin Award, the 2004 and 2005 National Feder­ation of Music Clubs Compe­tition, the Fort­nightly Music Club of Cleveland and the Festival de la Orquesta Sinfonica de las Americas Compe­tition of the Casals Festival among others. He is the featured violinist in a docu­mentary on violin tech­nique recorded at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Sords performs on a 1912 Augustine Talisse violin with strings provided by Warchal.

Sords will present educa­tional outreach to Anguilla school children in the days prior to the recital. For further details on all events during the week leading up to the concert, please contact Leroy Martinez at martinez(at)anguillanet(dot)com.

Please visit http://www.andrewsords.com, the official website of Andrew Sords. Sords is repre­sented by EMC Artists, Ltd. Contact emcartists(at)gmail(dot)com for press or booking inquiries.

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