Jacksonville OR Friends of Classical Music (JORFCM) is proud to announce its first-annual concert series to be held in the beautiful Assembly Room at New City Hall. JORFCM was formed this year with a singular mission: to bring classical music concerts to Jacksonville in winter. The schedule for winter 2024 has just been announced:
Sunday, January 14, 3pm—Quartet ES features Anton Miller and Ertan Torgul on violin, Rita Porfiris on viola, and Jennifer Kloetzel on cello, all of whom are well-established on the world stage. Their international debut was at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 2018. Since then, they have been on stage and in the studio, pleasing audiences and earning honors for their recordings from BBC.
Sunday, February 25, 3pm—The Canellakis-Brown Duo features cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist/composer Michael Brown. They have performed together around the world for over 15 years, recently at the Lincoln Center in New Your City. Canellakis made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra. They regularly perform at leading music festivals including Chamber Music Sedona, where Canellakis is the Artistic Director.
Sunday, March 10, 3pm—The Asmi Chamber Trio features Thomas Pandolfi on piano, Emil Altschuler on violin, and Carol Ou on cello. Pandolfi, having studied at Julliard, is a Steinway Artist and an audience favorite on the world’s most prestigious stages, including The Kennedy Center, and London’s Cadogan Hall. Altschuler holds degrees from Julliard and Yale School of Music and founded the Altschuler Summer Music Institute in Rimini, Italy. Carol Ou is an award-winning cellist and recording artist and teaches music at New England Conservatory of Music and at New York University.
Ticket information is available at www.jorfcm.org. See the individual artist websites for a glimpse of how beautiful and inspirational this music can be. There is hope for humanity. We are deeply grateful to our donors for making this first season possible. With the help of grants and other funding for the arts, we hope to make this series sustainable long into the future.