Con Brio Presents Tour de Force

CON BRIO PRESENTS TOUR DE FORCE

Saturday August 31, 2:00pm

APK Atrium

Join us for a special performance at APK! 

With the generous support of the Friends of the State Library, Archives and Museum, Con Brio Chamber Series is delighted to present the wildly talented Elena Levi and Ben Holtz in Tour de Force.  The two musicians will perform on violin, viola, cello, piano, and baritone sax with works by Stravinsky, Ravel, Mustonen, Bach, Hindemith, including an original work for violin and cello by Elena Levi. This is sure to be an amazing performance.

Elena began studying violin at the age of 5 and went on to receive two bachelor’s degrees from Boston University College of Fine Arts in violin performance and music theory/composition. She continued her composition studies under Missy Mazzoli and Nancy Wu (assistant concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera House) in New York City. In 2022, Elena moved to Juneau and is currently building a reputable private studio and is a board member of both Thrush Hill Music Academy as well as Orpheus Project.  Ben Holtz moved to Juneau in 2019 and is Superintendent of Project Engineering for Coeur Alaska's Kensington Mine while also playing the cello locally in Juneau. An engineer by day and musician by night, Ben graduated from Michigan Technological University with a B.S. in mechanical and electrical engineering, as well as a minor in music composition. Ben has written several compositions, including for the Juneau Composers Consortium.

Both Levi and Holtz are past performers with the Con Brio Chamber Series and regularly perform with the Juneau Symphony, Juneau Bach Society, and Amalga Chamber Orchestra, and other ensembles, and are founding members of the Icefield Quartet.

The one-hour performance is pay-as-you-can.  For more information contact conbriochamberseries@gmail.com.