Friday, November 21, 2008

Violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama & Pianist Awadagin Pratt in Quartet at Brooklyn's BargeMusic


[Nokuthula Ngwenyama; Awadagin Pratt: Beethoven Piano Sonatas, EMI 55290 (1996)]

Classical Music/Opera Listings
By The New York Times
Published: November 20, 2008  
“This floating concert hall has long been an ideal place to hear chamber music, and lately it has become a hub of interesting contemporary programming as well.” “On Sunday afternoon, a piano quartet —Andy Simionescu, violinist; Nokuthula Ngwenyama, violist; Judith Serkin, cellist; and Awadagin Pratt, pianist — take over for the Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 (Op. 26) and works by Martinu and Robert Starer. Sunday at 4 p.m.; Fulton Ferry Landing next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083, http://www.bargemusic.org; $35; $20 for students. (Kozinn) [Nokuthula Ngwenyama (b. 1976) is a Visiting Associate Professor (Viola) at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. “Thula”, as her friends call her, records for EDI Records. She is profiled at AfriClassical.com]





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