Richter Arts Presents Prometheus Ensemble

From Richter Arts:

Richter Association for the Arts opens its spring program with a classical quintet performed by the Prometheus Ensemble at Richter House, 100 Aunt Hack Rd., Danbury on Sunday, April 3, at 3 p.m. They will play the Dvorak Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major.

Prometheus is a group of five dedicated performers who believe that music carries the fire of human passion into our daily existence. It’s director, Eric Lewis is a well-know performer and retired professor at WCSU. Mr. Lewis launched his own concert career in 1968 with the formation of the new Manhattan String Quartet. With Lewis as first violinist the group was soon known to classical music lovers the world over.

Mr. Lewis has been on the music faculty at Western Connecticut State University for thirty years as teacher, director of chamber music and conductor of the WCSU orchestra. With pianist Howard Tuvelle and singer Marian Anderson, he was instrumental in the formation of the Charles Ives Center for the Performing Arts.

Norman Carey, pianist, was a winner of the Artists International Distinguished Artists’ Award, a recipient of the prestigious Borden Award from the Manhattan School of Music, and a prize winner in the International Bach Competition in Washington D. C.

Ronald Gorevic has had a long and distinguished career as a performer and teacher, on both the violin and viola. As a violist he has been a member of several well known string quartets, spanning over twenty years, and covering most of the quartet repertoire. He has toured throughout the U.S., Germany, Japan, Korea and Australia.
Roy Lewis, violinist, was a member of the Manhattan String Quartet for 17 years. The quartet was featured in weekly radio broadcasts from Music Mountain and performed internationally, logging three major tours of the former Soviet Union.

As a member of the Madison String Quartet, cellist Stephen Stalker was a finalist in both the Naumberg Chamber Music Competition in New York City and the Evian International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France. He was the principal cellist of the Oklahoma City Symphony and Cayuga Chamber Orchestra in Ithaca, NY and now teaches cello, double bass and chamber music at Binghamton University.

Admission by free will donation. Refreshments following the program. Parking in the golf course lot. Handicap parking in front of the House. Partially funded by the Danbury Cultural Commission. For further information, call 203- 798-6319 or visit the Richter Arts web site here.