Classical Underground

Sparkling with established and new classical music stars

Our friends and collaborators "Classical Underground"
lead by Alexey Steele And Olya Vlasova featured this time wide array of talants:

Esteemed Colombian pianist Teresita Gomez, who performed a selection of dances ranging from Bach (Partita #2) to Colombian composers Adolfo Mejia and Moises Moleiro.

Coloratura soprano Delaram Kamareh has been making a beautiful noise

on the local music scene since arriving from Tehran to study opera at UCLA, including in "Invisible Cities," the opera inventively staged at Union Station this year. She sang a wonderful variety of arias and lieder by Bach, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky and Vivaldi, accompanied on piano by Georgi Slavchev.

Georgi, a talented composer played two of his fantasies based on songs of Sting, and the introspective Fur Alina by the great Estonian composer Arvo Part.

Cellist Peter Myers, a graduate of Colburn and USC and a prizewinner at chamber music competitions around the world, performed songs of Benjamin Britten arranged for cello and piano, accompanied by Mary Au.