Cellist Beth Root Sandvoss will bring her deep-sounding strings to Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre next Wednesday morning for its second salon-style show of the season.
Sandvoss will play in a concert called Blue Autumn with pianists Marcel and Elizabeth Bergmann, who are leading this year’s Musical Mornings series for founder and fellow pianist Sarah Hagen.
In the recital, Sandvoss will perform Blue Autumn, a piece she commissioned Marcel Bergmann to write for her a decade ago.
A Wisconsin native and Calgary resident, Sandvoss has led an international career in music.
Early on, she was with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Victoria String Quartet, which toured Asia. She then completed her graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music and in San Francisco.
In Canada, Sandvoss regularly collaborates with such musicians as Ian Swenson, Barry Shiffman and Francois Houle, a clarinetist who appeared on Hagen’s Musical Morning circuit last year.
A founding member of the Juno-nominated Land’s End Chamber Ensemble of Calgary, Sandvoss is also a member of the University of Calgary String Quartet.
Sandvoss’ performance in Coquitlam on Nov. 16 is the last of the calendar year for Musical Mornings: In February, the Bergmanns have lined up percussionist Rod Thomas Squance while in March, Hagen returns to Evergreen with a show titled Three’s a Crowd… not!
Flautist Paolo Bertolussi closes the series on April 19 with L’histoire du Tango.
• For tickets at $22/$15, call the Evergreen Cultural Centre box office at 604-927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca.
