The celebrated Canellakis-Brown Duo will arrive in Key West next week to perform at the Edward B. and Joan T. Knight Remembrance Concert, presented by Impromptu Classical Concerts. This special event will take place at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 401 Duval St., and is a tribute to prominent Key Westers Edward B. and Joan T. Knight, whose eponymous foundation is carrying on the couple’s philanthropic legacy by sponsoring the show.
Cellist Nicholas Canellakis, and his musical partner, pianist Michael Brown, “ . . . play with their antennae turned to each other,” according to the Washington Post, and “Where needed, Brown shaped piano phrases like a bowed instrument, easily mirrored by matching cello lines, while Canellakis found ways to delineate legato passages with a pianistic sort of voice-leading.”
Canellakis’s recent highlights include a Carnegie Hall debut with the American Symphony Orchestra, and appearances with the Albany Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, Pan-European Phiharmonia in Greece, New Haven Symphony and Lincoln Center, and also on tours of Europe and Asia.
Michael Brown is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory, He has been called “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers,” by the New York Times. He’s also the winner of a 2018 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, the recipient of a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center. Brown performed as Impromptu’s “Rising Star,” in 2015. The Feb. 9 concert will be Michael’s third for Impromptu.
The Edward B. and Joan T. Knight Foundation was created to continue this couple’s legacy to impact lives, improve communities and inspire others to change their lives. Impromptu Classical Concerts has benefited substantially from the generosity of this Foundation. and looks forward to partnering with it for many years.
Canellakis-Brown Duo will perform “Rhapsody for Cello and Piano” by lberto Ginastera, Brown’s “Surfaces,” Beethoven’s “Sonata in C Sharp Major” (The Moonlight;) “Sonata for Cello and Piano,” by Edvard Grieg, and “Bulgarian Bulge,” by Don Ellis.
Tickets for the concert cost $20, and are available at www.keystix.com, or at the door on the afternoon of the event. Cash, checks, or credit/debit cards accepted. Students will be admitted free. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information visit www.keywestimpromptu.org
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