Featuring Brendon Elliott, Ambrosia Quartet, Amanda Halstead, and more.
This new work brings to life the music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a brilliant yet tragically forgotten contemporary of Mozart and Haydn. It is the story of three immigrants, the Chevalier, Mozart, and Marie Antoinette, navigating a pre-Revolutionary Paris hostile to outsiders. Featuring Newport News native Brendon Elliott on violin and Norfolk’s own Ambrosia Quartet, this concert layered within a play weaves together four actors and live music in a powerful resurrection of a fascinating composer’s life.
Virginia Native, first-year NWS violinist fellow Brendon Elliott received his Bachelor’s from The Curtis Institute of Music in after studying with Pamela Frank, and the late Joseph Silverstein and completed his Master’s at The Juilliard School under Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes. He began his violin studies under his mother’s tutelage at the age of three and made his solo debut when he was 10 years old. Since then, he has soloed and played with many orchestras such as the Virginia Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Sphinx Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra St. Luke’s, and Chineke! Orchestra.
Ambrosia Quartet is comprised of members of the Virginia Symphony: Simon Lapointe, Mayu Cipriano, Beverly Kane Baker, and Rebecca Gilmore. The quartet has been performing in the area since 2002, and is quartet-in-residence at The Academy of Music in Norfolk.
Brendon Elliott
Ambrosia Quartet
This new work brings to life the music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a brilliant yet tragically forgotten contemporary of Mozart and Haydn. It is the story of three immigrants, the Chevalier, Mozart, and Marie Antoinette, navigating a pre-Revolutionary Paris hostile to outsiders. Featuring Newport News native Brendon Elliott on violin and Norfolk’s own Ambrosia Quartet, this concert layered within a play weaves together four actors and live music in a powerful resurrection of a fascinating composer’s life.
Virginia Native, first-year NWS violinist fellow Brendon Elliott received his Bachelor’s from The Curtis Institute of Music in after studying with Pamela Frank, and the late Joseph Silverstein and completed his Master’s at The Juilliard School under Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes. He began his violin studies under his mother’s tutelage at the age of three and made his solo debut when he was 10 years old. Since then, he has soloed and played with many orchestras such as the Virginia Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Sphinx Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra St. Luke’s, and Chineke! Orchestra.
Ambrosia Quartet is comprised of members of the Virginia Symphony: Simon Lapointe, Mayu Cipriano, Beverly Kane Baker, and Rebecca Gilmore. The quartet has been performing in the area since 2002, and is quartet-in-residence at The Academy of Music in Norfolk.
Brendon Elliott
Ambrosia Quartet
Co-presented with SevenVenues.