Violin Concert with Joshua Peckins!
We are thrilled to welcome award-winning concert violinist Joshua Peckins back for a concert on Saturday, November 5th from 3-4 pm, at the Falmouth Library! His last appearance here was widely attended and loved. Joshua will present a series of recitals, Bach’s Sonata Number 1 in G Minor, Toshio Hosokawa’s Extasas, Jessie Montgomery’s Rhapsody Number 2 and Paganini’s Caprice Number 24. This concert is part of the project “Music Speaks.” The performance will include commentary about the composers and music.
Registration is required, as space is limited-please register by clicking here, or call us at 508-457-2555 x 7. Please register each person separately!
Joshua has been among the most active recitalists in New England, performing solo concerts of “particular brilliance” (Worcester Telegram) and with “a gift for capturing audiences’ attention” (Backyard News). He has presented solo recitals nationally and internationally in over 30 venues, including the renowned Figaro Hall of Palace Pálffy (where Mozart himself presented his “The Marriage of Figaro”), Crystal Hall in Japan, the Haydn and Mendelssohn Halls in Austria, as well on the Artist Series of the Bled Festival in Slovenia, the Salzburg Festival at the Mozarteum, the Orford Festival in Canada, and the Cervo Festival in Italy.
An avid chamber musician, Peckins has appeared with the renowned New England Bach Festival at Marlboro, Grammy-nominated A Far Cry (also as section leader), Camerata New England, Music at Eden’s Edge (where he also received the Emerging Artist Award), and Manchester Summer Chamber Music (also as concerto soloist). He has performed chamber music on nationally syndicated TV/radio on three continents He is most active today as a recitalist.
This is a free event. Registration is required, as space is limited. You can register by clicking here, or call us at 508-457-2555 x 7. We thank the Trustees of the Falmouth Public Library for sponsoring this concert!