CVM Presents: RAHA Duo

CVM founder Amelia Hollander Ames returns for the Jersey City debut of her group RAHA Duo (violist Amelia Hollander Ames and pianist Elaine Rombola Aveni). RAHA will present a wide-ranging program of music by Ginastera, Schumann, and Shostakovich, as well as NYC-based composer Daniel Felsenfeld ​(his “Hooked to the Silver Screen,” based on David Bowie’s “Life on Mars”) ​and Miami-based composer Lansing McLoskey​ (“Wild Bells”)​.

The RAHA Duo is violist Amelia Hollander Ames and pianist Elaine Rombola Aveni. The two met at New England Conservatory, where they collaborated for Amelia’s graduate recital. Flash forward a decade or so: after Amelia returned to Boston, they reunited to play ​a show at Cambridge’s Lilypad Gallery. The show was praised by the Boston Musical Intelligencer as “definitely a quality offering” filled with “poised and accomplished playing.” Now Elaine and Amelia are delighted to bring their program of 20th and 21st century music (along with Robert Schumann’s romantic and whimsical “Fairy Tale Pictures” as a palate cleanser) to Amelia’s hometown of Jersey City, NJ.

CVM Presents: RAHA Duo
Sunday, April 17 @ 5pm
St. Paul Lutheran Church – 440 Hoboken Ave, Jersey City, NJ
Free, $15 suggested donation
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Program:
Albert Ginasterao – Suite de Danzas Criolles, Opus 15
Daniel Felsenfeld – Hooked to the Silver Screen
Lansing McLoskey – Wild Bells
Robert Schumann – Märchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures)
Dmitri Shostakovich – Sonata for Viola and Piano

Amelia Hollander Ames, viola
Elaine Rombola Aveni, piano