Violinist Elena Urioste to open Utsey Chamber Music season at Clemson

Published: September 17, 2012

Michael Brown and Elena Urioste image by: Courtesy photo

CLEMSON — After first appearing with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 13, Elena Urioste has taken her violin to the stages of many major orchestra halls both in the U.S. and Europe. She brings her musicianship to Clemson University at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27.

Urioste will perform with pianist Michael Brown at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Utsey Chamber Music Series.

Urioste has been hailed by critics and audiences alike for her lush tone and extraordinary technique. She debuted as first-place laureate in both the junior and senior divisions of the Sphinx Competition and debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2004. She has collaborated with acclaimed musicians and conductors and shared the stage with such orchestras as the Boston Pops, the Cleveland Orchestra and the London Philharmonic.

She plays an Alessandro Gagliano violin (Naples c. 1706) with a Pierre Simon bow loaned from the private collection of Dr. Charles E. King through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Brown graduated from Julliard with dual Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in piano and composition. He has appeared on four continents and performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Arts and Alice Tully Hall.

The pair will perform Romance, Op. 23 by Amy Beach, Sonata in A minor, No. 1 (posthumous) by Maurice Ravel, Sonata No. 8 in G, Op. 30, No. 3 by Beethoven and Sonata in E-flat, Op. 18 by Richard Strauss.

As part of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, the concert is free and tickets are not required. For more information, visit www.clemson.edu/Brooks or call the box office at 864-656-7787 from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

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The Lillian and Robert Utsey Chamber Music Series
For the past 26 years, Clemson University’s award-winning Utsey Chamber Music Series has presented 119 free chamber music concerts and continues with seven more concerts in its 27^th year. Recognized for outstanding programming and community service, the series has earned national accolades for showcasing the best soloists and ensembles in the genre. In 2007, the university received an Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for the Arts, South Carolina’s highest arts award, for outstanding contributions made by the Utsey Chamber Music Series to the arts in the Palmetto State.