C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival Announces Alumni Concert Featuring Violinist Sho Omagari Feb. 19

Violinist Sho Omagari will perform at C.W. Post Feb. 19.

Brookville, N.Y. – The C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival will present a Festival Alumni Concert on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 8:15 p.m. in the Great Hall at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. Featured soloist will be violinist Sho Omagari, who is a distinguished alumnus of the C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival.

Omagari’s recital will include the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Ysaye and a transcription by Waxman of Bizet’s Carmen. He will be accompanied by pianist Eduard Laurel. Admission is free.

The 28th C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival will be held July 13-31 at the C.W. Post Campus in Brookville. For further information about the Festival Alumni Concert or the C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival, contact Festival Director Susan Deaver at (516) 299-2103 or visit the Festival’s Web site at http://www.liu.edu/cwpost/svpa/music/festival.

Violinist Sho Omagari was born in Hamburg, Germany and is currently an undergraduate student at the Mannes College of Music where he studies with Sally Thomas. He has participated in master classes with the Leipzig Quartet, James Ehnes, Midori, Hyo Kang, Ani Kavafian, Grigory Kalinovsky, Erica Kiesewetter, Albert Markov, and William van der Sloot. He was a first place winner of the 2008 LISMA International Music Competition and has made solo appearances with the Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division Philharmonic, the Island Senior Symphony Orchestra, and has performed on two occasions with the North Shore Symphony Orchestra. He participated in the 4th International Summer Music Academy in Leipzig, Germany in 2004, which was hosted by the Juilliard School and Mendelssohn Hochschule für Musik und Theater. He also attended the Meadowmount School of Music and the C.W. Post Music Festival where he was concertmaster of the Festival Chamber Orchestra and conductor of the Conductors’ Ensemble. His awards include the Paul Rudoff Award, the North Shore Art Council Award, first place winner of the 2005 North Shore Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Award Competition, the Oyster Bay Art Council Award, the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra Scholarship and the Long Island Conservatory Scholarship.

Pianist Eduard Laurel is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and has enjoyed a rich life in music as a freelance accompanist, playing in the master classes of world famous cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Mstislav Rostropovich, as well as classes of violinists Josef Gingold and Sally Thomas and flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal. Laurel has toured five continents and won critical praise from The New York Times as a “first rate chamber musician” and from the Montreal Gazette as the “ideal accompanist.” He had a 10-year association with the Meadowmount School and is a frequent accompanist at Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School of Music and Mannes College of Music in New York City.

Posted: February 9, 2009