February 11th and 12th, 2017
Juneau-based violinist Linda Rosenthal with Westport pianist Rose Chancler

Alaska-based Linda Rosenthal has performed for audiences worldwide with her incredible virtuosity and warm audience rapport. She also tirelessly promotes classical music outside of concert halls, in schools, museums, libraries, community centers, seminars, and more. Piano by Nature is proud to showcase her talent in a chamber music program alongside Westport’s Rose Chancler, presenting a violin and piano concert of exceptional nature in the heart of the North Country winter.

Come warm yourselves watching these two create some fireworks! Repertoire will include the Handel D-Major Sonata, Grieg’s Second Sonata in G-Major, Beethoven opus 30 No. 3 Sonata, Bartok Romanian Folk Dances — and much more! Tickets available at the door —$15 for adults, and only $5 for 15-and-under. Both concerts held at the Hand House in Elizabethtown, NY — Saturday, February 11th at 7PM and Sunday, February 12th at 3PM. For more information call 518.962.8899 or visit www.pianobynature.org.

A little about Linda

“(As solo violinist), she acquitted herself magnificently…pulling off all the stunts with fine musicality, masterfully shaping the line for maximum impact… (She produced) images of hot blood and spice.” — Anchorage Daily News

“…classy, sassy spirit…captured in Linda Rosenthal’s…vibrant and rhythmically charged recital for violin and piano…wonderful fiddle music – fresh, fleet, fun…” — The Washington Post

Violinist LINDA ROSENTHAL performs throughout North America, Europe and Asia in recitals, as a soloist with orchestra and as a chamber musician. Based in Juneau Alaska, Linda has also performed in virtually every corner that great State, from fishing villages and logging camps in Southeast Alaska to remote villages above the Arctic Circle. Linda is the Founder and Artistic Director of both Juneau Jazz & Classics, an annual music festival that brings world-renowned jazz and classical artists to perform and teach in Juneau each May, and the Lake Placid Chamber Music Seminar in Lake Placid, New York.

In addition to a busy schedule performing solo and chamber music, Linda also tours Strings & Stories, a show for young audiences that she created and premiered at the Kennedy Center in 1995. Since its debut, Ms. Rosenthal and Los Angeles actor Bill Blush have toured Strings & Stories annually under the auspices of The Piatigorsky Foundation. Their show has reached thousands of children in schools, museums, libraries and community centers throughout the United States.

Over the past decade, Ms. Rosenthal has commissioned and premiered more than a dozen works, including pieces for solo violin, electric violin, violin and piano and violin and narrator. Her most recent commission was Glacier Blue, a Concerto for Solo Violin and Jazz Big Band. Her four solo CDs feature the sonatas of Copland, Piston and Porter; Favorite Violin Encores; Fiddle de Bop, a collection of Americana music for violin and piano; and, Glacier Blue with Bruce Paulson’s L.A. Allstar Big Band.

Ms. Rosenthal plays on a violin made in Turin, Italy in 1772 by J. B. Guadagnini.