classical concert

After three successful seasons, Le Petit Salon de Musique will inaugurate its Fourth Season on Sunday, September 15, at 2:00 p.m., in East Setauket by welcoming pianist Alexandria Le and flutist Ray Furuta.  The sensational duo will perform pieces by J.S. Bach, Andre Jolivet, Carl Reinecke, and Sergei Prokofiev. 

Acclaimed for her “grace and power” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer) and as a “passionate and involved player...who is so adept at painting tonal pictures” (New York Concert Review), American pianist Alexandria Le enjoys a multi-faceted career as soloist, chamber musician and teaching artist.  After winning the Pro Musicis International Award in 2011 and joining a distinguished roster of artists, she was presented with solo debuts in Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in NYC and Pickman Hall in Cambridge, MA to glowing reviews, with The Boston Musical Intelligencer summarizing her as "a warm, animated, outgoing, confident, hypertalented young pianist whose greatest asset is her incomparable power to communicate." A sought-after chamber musician, Ms. Le is a pianist with Ensemble ACJW, the 20-member collective run by Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and the Weill Institute, in partnership with the New York Department of Education, and with NYC's exciting, newly-established mixed period ensemble, The Colonials.

Hailed as “the protégé of the great flutist, Carol Wincenc” (San Jose Mercury News) and acclaimed as a “sophisticated (Piedmont Post) artist who performs with "great care and expression" (San Francisco Classical Voice) and a “ghostly and emphatic and glittered” (Repeat Performances) style, Ray Furuta has established a reputation as one of today’s foremost young flutists.  In addition to performances throughout the United States, Furuta has toured as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher in many countries including Mexico, Canada, Spain, Austria, Czech-Republic, Poland and Hungary.  He serves as chamber music faculty for Stony Brook University's Undergraduate Music Department, the Silicon Valley Music Festival and recently joined the Artistic Faculty of Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute and San Diego Coastal Flutes Summer Masterclass.

Tickets for this event are $20 at the door or $15 online at www.lepetitsalon.org.  Tickets for seniors are $15 at the door or $10 online and for students are $5.  Le Petit Salon de Musique is located at 380 Nicolls Rd., East Setauket, NY and is sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Stony Brook (www.UUFSB.org), a non-profit religious organization whose mission includes support for social and economic justice.  All proceeds are used to fund UUFSB and its mission.  ###