CONCERTS AT THE CLOISTER

Ten night concerts in the magnificent cloister of San Nicolò with the artists Paulo Szot, Mattew Aucoin, Keir GoGwilt.




MATTHEW AUCOIN
Matthew Aucoin is a composer, conductor, pianist, and poet. His next opera has been commissioned by the American Repertory Theater, where it will be directed by Diane Paulus in 2015. Aucoin is currently an Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, and he will make his debut with the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in the fall; he has guest-conducted orchestras including the Longwood Symphony and the Brattle Street Chamber Players. Aucoin is currently music-directing Paulo Szot’s new one-man show, which will arrive in New York in August, and composing new orchestral works for the Encounters Ensemble orchestra and the Fire Island Opera Festival. His past operas have been performed at The New York Composers Collaborative and the Loeb Drama Center. A 2012 graduate of Harvard College (summa cum laude), Aucoin has published poems and essays in publications including The Boston Globe, The Harvard Advocate, and The Colorado Review.

KEIR GOGWILT
Keir GoGwilt was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and grew up in New York City. Recent performances include the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Bowdoin International Music Festival Orchestra, Mozart Violin Concerto #3 with the Greenwich Village Orchestra, Vivaldi Four Seasons with the Bach Society Orchestra at Harvard, the Berg Violin Concerto and Aucoin’s This Same Light with the Encounters Ensemble. Keir has performed recitals at the Century Club, Miller Theater, the Canadian Opera Company, and in collaboration with Robert Levin on the world premiere of Levin’s completion of a Mozart piano trio at the Sarasota Opera House. Tzadik records will release Keir’s recordings of Tobias Picker’s violin and chamber music, in collaboration with the Tobias Picker Ensemble and the Brentano Quartet. A 2013 graduate from Harvard in the literature department, Keir was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts. His senior thesis, "Performing Responsibility," considers the implications of scientific studies of musicians’ technique for literary theory and philosophy. Keir has studied with Lewis Kaplan, Christian Tetzlaff, Ute Hasenauer, Jorie Graham, and John Hamilton among others.

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