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January, 31 2010 03:00 PM - Trinity Center for Urban Life
2212 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 - $18 - $5

PIANO TRIOS: On January 31, Astral Artists, one of the nation’s premier organizations for the career development of emerging classical musicians, shines the spotlight on a favorite form: the piano trio. Astral’s exceptional artists – violinist Korbinian Altenberger, cellist Susan Babini, clarinetist Igor Begelman, and pianist Michael Mizrahi – perform some of the repertoire’s greatest piano trios, spanning from Haydn’s No. 9 to Aaron Jay Kernis’s Trio in Red for Cello, Clarinet, and Piano.
February, 21 2010 03:00 PM - Trinity Center for Urban Life
2212 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 - $18 - $5

SAXOPHONIST DOUG O’CONNOR & FRIENDS: Astral Artists, one of the nation’s premier organizations for the career development of emerging classical musicians, presents saxophonist Doug O’Connor, praised by The Chestnut Hill Local for his “consummate technical command” and “distinct interpretive style.” O’Connor’s virtuoso friends – Astral accordionist Lidia Kaminska, violinist Saeka Matsuyama, and pianist Michael Mizrahi – join him in a colorful program that explores the riveting sonorities that only these uncommon musical combinations could create.
March, 7 2010 03:00 PM - Trinity Center for Urban Life
2212 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 - $18 - $5

FLUTIST JASMINE CHOI – IN RECITAL: Gramophone Korea praises flutist Jasmine Choi’s “perfect technique and astounding musicianship,” and on March 7 Astral Artists, one of the nation’s premier organizations for the career development of emerging classical musicians, presents the “major talent” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) in recital. Choi and pianist William Hong-Chun Youn touch all bases in a program spanning from Bach to a world première by young Korean composer Solbong Kim. Also featured is a transcription of Franck’s beguiling Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major.
April, 7 2010 07:30 PM - Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts – Perelman Theater
Broad & Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 - $30 - $5

RISING STARS: Astral Artists, one of the nation’s premier organizations for the career development of emerging classical musicians, features its stellar artists as soloists with Symphony in C. “The exuberant Saeka Matsuyama” (The Strad) is the violin soloist for Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, cellist Susan Babini displays her “thoughtful charisma” and “gorgeous deep sound” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) in the East Coast première of Aaron Jay Kernis’s Colored Field, and Sibelius’s Luonnotar is the centerpiece for soprano Dísella Làrusdóttir, whom The New York Times calls “reliably breathtaking.”