PERFORMING ARTS
A 15-Year-Old Clarinetist in Concert of “American Favorites” Sunday, March 10 BY STAFF REPORTS • DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE
Festival in 2017 and 2018. In 2017, he was the youngest is proud to present a concert of student enrolled “American Favorites,” featuring the and in 2018 was a music of George Gershwin, Benny BMC Scholar and Goodman, Scott Joplin and Artie a concerto compeShaw at The Cathedral of All tition semi-finalist. Souls on March 10, 3 pm. During his time at The concert will illustrate the evoThe concert features 15-year-old Aaron Lipsky on clarinet BMC, Lipsky played lution and incorporation of Klezmer (left) and Alex Watson on piano. principal clarinet unmusic into American Jazz, showing der Keith Lockhart, how many of the great Jazz artists of American the conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. history have strong Eastern European roots. The He is also a two-time recipient of the Ione M. concert will feature 15-year-old Aaron Lipsky on Allen Scholarship for musical study and currently clarinet and Alex Watson on piano. studies with Steve Loew, former solo clarinetist Clarinetist, Aaron Lipsky, founded Clarinet and of the US Marine Band. Lipsky was a featured Friends in 2018. Lipsky, a sophomore at AC musician in “The Next Generation” concerts Reynolds High School, attended the Brevard presented by Dan Weiser and AmiciMusic this Music Center’s (BMC) Summer Institute and The newly-founded chamber music organization, Clarinet & Friends,
past October. He is also the winner of the 2019 Hendersonville Symphony Concerto Competition. Alex Watson is one of the premier pianists of the southeast. He graduated from UNC at Chapel Hill with a BA in music, the US Armed Forces School of Music and studied for three years at Corso di Musica in Tuscania, Italy and Morges, Switzerland. Watson is an instructor at the Piano Lab Studios of Asheville and has also won four first-place gold medals in the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival Competition of 2015 and 2017 in categories for classical, jazz and sacred music. larinet & Friends C Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door. Go to clarinetandfriends.com or call Alex Watson at (252) 236-5457tickets and more information.
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