The next Music at Midweek event will feature Trevor New, a Brooklyn-based electro-acoustic viola musician, on Wednesday, February 19, from 12:30 to 1:25 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to all.
Trevor New has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist. He has appeared as a soloist performing the Elgar Cello Concerto transcribed for Viola, and premiering the Henderson Viola Concerto with the Chelsea Symphony of New York. As a chamber musician he has played with the Balkan Chamber Orchestra on a multi-city tour of Japan, Chris McNulty on her Jazz album “Eternal”, Joe Daley’s “Portraits and Virtues”, David Chesky’s “Joy and Sorrow”, Feist’s “Metals”, Hip-hop Violinist and Emmy award winner Damien Escobar, and in the TV Orchestra of television’s first drama about life in a symphony, “Mozart in the Jungle.” In 2018 Trevor performed a concert series with Academy Award winner Joe Hisaishi, playing his film scores, including “Spirited Away” at Carnegie Hall.
For more information contact performing and fine arts at x7228 or pfa@up.edu.