Currents of Creativity
Wednesday, October 30th, 7pm | Gordon Chapel , Boston
The Program
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KARNA MENDONCA - PIANO / AIMEE TONER - FLUTE
Lili Boulanger - Nocturne for Flute & Piano
Karna Mendonca - Nocturne
Francis Poulenc -Sonate Pour Flûte et Piano Mov. II, Cantilena
CHRISTOS VAYENAS - PIANO / KATIE SWATLAND - ART
Luminance - Solo Improvisations for Piano
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Christos Vayenas
Pianist/composer, writer and impresario Christos Vayenas draws his artistic inspiration from the Romantic and Symbolist eras of the past, as well as various musical traditions of the world.
As a curator he works to innovate the way people perform, share and encounter the arts. Creating intimate spaces in which to present and renew the timeless traditions of the past, he aspires to help define a new artistic culture for the future.
Katie Swatland
The paintings of Katie Swatland are an intrinsic dance between reality and reverie. Drawing from her training as a painter whose lineage can be traced back to masters such as John Singer Sargeant, Antonio Mancini and Anders Zorn, she approaches the canvas through means of discovery, imparting a sense of playful curiosity throughout a broad range of subject matter.
Gestural brushwork combine with areas of transparency, contrasted by passages of thick impasto paint, all intermingle in a symphony of lost and found edges. Originally trained as a mechanical engineer, she is a passionate advocate of cross-disciplinary undertakings, and it is the unbounded landscape of the Arts to which she is most drawn.
Karna Mendonca
Karna Mendonca is an emerging composer and pianist living in Boston. He has attended summer programs at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Interlochen Arts academy, and currently studies both piano and composition with renowned pianist Eric Zivian.
Karna is interested in the intersection between visual art and music, improvisation in the classical tradition, and synthesizing concert music with ideas from jazz, flamenco, and other musical traditions. When not writing music, Karna currently spends his days earning a doctoral degree in computer science at Northeastern University.
Aimee Toner
Aimee Toner has performed as a flutist and piccolo player with many orchestras including the Norwalk Symphony, the Enigma Chamber Opera Orchestra, the Glens Falls Symphony, the New Amsterdam Opera, and the Du Bois Symphony, and has collaborated in chamber groups that have ranged from jazz trios in Italian restaurants to wind quintets on stage at Carnegie Hall.
Currently, Aimee is the flutist in Duo Brève, a touring harp-flute duo with harpist Mia Venezia that is managed by the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York. Toner is also honored to represent Wm S. Haynes Co. as a Haynes Young Artist, and plays on a custom 10K Gold Haynes Flute.