Aya Kaminaguchi, Michael Singer, William Braun, and Maiani da Silva
Sunday, April 2, 2023, at 4 pm

Program

Piazzolla “Histoire Du Tango”
Louis Harrison “Varied Trio”
Emmanuel Sejourne “Concerto for Marimba and Strings”
Chopin “The Revolutionary”
Chick Corea “Armando’s Rumba”

Percussionist Aya Kaminaguchi earned her Bachelor’s degree from Osaka College of Music in Japan and Master’s degree from the Boston Conservatory where she won a full scholarship. She is the winner of the Percussive Arts Society Audition, Aspen Music Festival Soloist Competition and a finalist of the International Marimba Competition in Belgium. As an orchestral percussionist, she has performed with numerous orchestras in the United States and Asia, including the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Palm Beach Opera, Sarasota Opera, New World Symphony, and toured worldwide with “Star Wars: In Concert” and “Porgy and Bess”. Currently, she is a principal percussionist of the New Haven Symphony, sectional percussionist of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and a member of the Excelsis Percussion Quartet.

Timpanist Michael Singer was born and raised in New Mexico. He is a graduate of the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California and holds a Bachelor’s degree from New England Conservatory, Master’s degree from Boston University and Doctorate from Rutgers University. Michael has been fortunate to perform with orchestras internationally including New York Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Singapore Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. He currently holds the positions of Principal Timpanist with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Hudson Valley Philharmonic and is the Principal Percussionist with the Palm Beach Opera in Florida.

William Braun has appeared as concerto soloist with the New World Symphony in Miami and the Florida West Coast Symphony (Sarasota) on multiple occasions. He has been the pianist of the New Haven Symphony for thirty-six years, performing as soloist in concertos by Ròzsa, Lambert and Gershwin. For twenty years he was the pianist of the Wall Street Chamber Players, and he teaches opera and lieder at the Hartt School. He has also written more than three hundred articles for Opera News magazine, including cover profiles of John Adams, Ian Bostridge, Thomas Adès and Nina Stemme, overviews of the operas of Michael Tippett and Giacomo Meyerbeer, and analyses of Britten’s Peter Grimes and Gloriana, Verdi’s Macbeth and Don Carlos, and Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise. He earned his doctorate from Yale University. For the past ten summers he has been performing at the Castello di Sorci in Anghiari, Italy and the Casa Monteripido in Perugia.

Maiani da Silva is a contemporary violinist, performer, arranger, and educator. She is a member of the four-time Grammy-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird, co-founder of performance-art duo The Furies, as well as Lecturer at Yale’s Department of Music and Visiting Distinguished Professor at University of Oregon. She has premiered concertos with the Cincinnati Symphony and the U.S. Navy Band, premiered staged works by David Lang/Anne Bogart, and has also collaborated with Louis Andriessen, Viet Cuong, Ted Hearne, Nina Shekhar, Childish Gambino, George Lewis, Taylor Mac, Julianna Barwick, Joe Hisaishi, and more.

Maiani studied under the tutelage of Irina Muresanu at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and Mela Tenenbaum in Brooklyn, N.Y. Other mentors include Lenny Matczynski, and Andrew Mark. She is also an Artist in Residence and Fellow at Yale University’s Morse College. For more info, please visit https://www.maianidasilva.com.