IMPORTANT NOTE FOR ATTENDEES: The concert will be held in person at the Moore Community Center, 125 State Street, Ellsworth, Maine. Due to COVID-19 considerations the audience will be limited to 50 members and seats will be filled first come, first served. Masks will be optional.
ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on May 23. The concert will be performed by Luke Fatora, violin and George Lopez, piano. Their program will include works by Beach, Coleridge-Taylor, Mozart, and Schubert.
Sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI), with funding from the Onion Foundation and the City of Ellsworth, the concert is FREE to the public.
For more information, please call 207-664-9258 or email: info@ellsworthcommunitymusic.org.
Left to right: Luke Fatora, violine and George Lopez, piano
About the musicians:
Luke Fatora was drawn to the violin after he heard fiddle music in the hills of Appalachia as a young boy. He has since performed in contexts that range from fiddling with bluegrass bands to performing contemporary and traditional classical music in the World Financial Center and Carnegie Hall. As a
conductor, Luke served as the Music Director for the Summit Community Orchestra between receiving a BM from the Oberlin conservatory and a MM from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Luke was recently a Musician Fellow at Community MusicWorks in Providence, RI where he performed in
traditional and experimental concert series.
Pianist George Lopez, Bowdoin College's Robert Beckwith Artist in Residence, has been a dedicated and dynamic performer, educator, and lecturer for 30 years. Known in Europe, South America and the US for his "...kaleidoscopic colors and clarity of conception..." (LA Times) in the standard repertoire as well as being a champion of newly written works, Mr. Lopez is also comfortable in styles of music ranging from jazz, ragtime to more contemporary styles of improvisation. His concert seasons have included tours of New England and New York, the Bay Area, Seattle, New Orleans, Boulder, Colorado, Vermont, Massachusetts, Mexico, with concerts in France, Holland, Switzerland and Italy. He was invited to Cuba just before the embargo was lifted to give masterclasses and concerts as a member of the Aries Trio. Mr. Lopez initiated his "Music in the Museum" series at Bowdoin College that consistently sells out to audiences who enjoy his creative and engaging lecture recitals on the relationship of music to art and ideas. He has taken up the baton and built up the all-student Bowdoin College Orchestra which performs full symphonic programs each semester. He resides in Brunswick, Maine.