Category Archives: Concerts

Apple Orange Pair to perform in Virginia in January 2014

We are delighted to be presenting a full-length concert at Bluefield College in southwest Virginia in January! Here are details:

Apple Orange Pair in Bluefield
Harman Chapel at Bluefield College
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
7:30pm
FREE ADMISSION

We look forward to presenting some of our favorite new pieces by composers featured on our album “Seeds,” along with classics for harp and horn in historical styles ranging from Classical to Romantic to Impressionist.

Additional performance dates TBD, but expect to see us also perform close to January 14 in Tazewell, VA, and Bluefield, WV!

Violin for Vasculitis concert

Before our 2013-2014 season opens, Apple Orange Pair will be collaborating in this special concert to benefit vasculitis on July 30 in New Haven:

July 30, 2013 at 7:30pm
Violin for Vasculitis: An Evening of Music to benefit the Vasculitis Foundation
In collaboration with professional violinist and vasculitis survivor Allison Lint
Venue: Christ Presbyterian Church / 135 Whitney Ave.

If you haven’t seen us perform recently, we’d love to see you at this concert! Not only will you get to hear the wildly creative piece, “Roland,” that Michael Weinstein-Reiman wrote for us last year, but you’ll also be regaled by music ranging from Mozart and Brahms to electronic music performed by the composer himself. And need we mention that it is for a really great cause? The concert is FREE, the musical portion is 50 minutes long, and you’ll have an opportunity to learn more about vasculitis, meet survivors, and mingle with the performers afterwards. We’re hoping for a good turnout from the medical community as well as local music lovers, so spread the word!

For more information about Violin for Vasculitis, check out the event’s Facebook page (you can RSVP there), the organization’s Facebook page, and the Vasculitis Foundation.

Emily and Colleen in residence at Maine music festival, July 2012

Emily and Colleen have both been selected for artists’ fellowships this summer at the Atlantic Music Festival in Wateville, ME. This young music festival strongly focuses on chamber music and the performance of new pieces by composers in residence at the festival each summer. We are eagerly looking forward to our time there, as (obviously) both chamber music and new music are causes near and dear to our hearts as apple orange pair! (And while we are excited about giving performances of AOP commissions while there, we also anticipate playing wonderful chamber music with new colleagues. Think Debussy’s Danses, harp fans, or perhaps the Brahms Horn Trio…)

A fun concert last night

Thanks to everyone who came to our new music concert yesterday! We so enjoyed getting to share some of this “less traditional” music with you. As stated at the concert, it really is vitally important that performers of “classical” music perform music written recently rather than only pieces from the quickly-becoming-ancient past. We are thrilled as a chamber group to be an active agent in promoting new music in many different styles, commissioning and performing brand-new music for harp and horn.

More details to come on our website about future commissions by Apple Orange Pair. We’ll also have some audio and video up soon on our FB page from our concert last night.

In the meantime, enjoy this “action shot” of us from last night’s concert!

Change to February concert – now March 3!

Please take note that the concert formerly advertised for Feb. 11 and/or 18, 2012, will actually take place March 3. We hope to still see all our fans there, as well as some new faces.

We are also excited to be presenting more varied musical programs to multiple audiences and communities around Connecticut in the New Year. We are beginning 2012 with a special concert for residents at Fellowship Place in New Haven. We hope to also be sharing selections from our Fête française program, along with sneak peeks of our upcoming new music concert, in western CT sometime in January. Stay tuned for more updates!