“If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors"
-Bertholt Brecht
Join internationally celebrated cellist, singer and composer Anthime Miller for an adventurous and reflective evening of cello - featuring an new, abridged version of their piece WELLSPRING, first premiered in 2016 at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and a brand new piece of composer and accompanist Jake Landau - "Narcissus and Echo", featuring special guest singer/violist Alexia DelGiudice Bigari.
These original pieces will be paired with some lesser known but equally exquisite classics - Antonio Vivaldi's B Flat Cello Sonata RV 46, Landau's own arrangement of the exquisite Notturno by Ottorino Resphigi and more!
IN-PERSON TICKETS
In-person tickets also include unlimited digital broadcast access.
$20 — General Admission (Advance)
$25 — General Admission (Door)
VIRTUAL TICKETS
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$15 – Fan of Anthime Miller
$25 – Friend of Anthime Miller
$50 – Supporter of Anthime Miller
$100 – Patron of Anthime Miller
Anthime Miller is an internationally sought-after composer, performer, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY.
Born in Glens Falls, New York, they began studying cello at the age of eight, and at the age thirteen began studying with Ann Alton at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. They studied Early Music Performance (Cello) and Music History at McGill University in Montreal and Musical Theater at Circle in the Square Theater School in New York City.
Currently, they are the composer-in-residence for Circle Theater of New York (CTNY) for whom they have scored and performed The Mountain (New York 2014), which was nominated for Best Original Music at the 2015 New York Innovative Theater Awards and won for Best Original Choreography, Trail of Crumbs (New York, Lux 2015), Wellspring for the RADA festival (London 2016) and their newest score Strangers, the second co-production between CTNY and the Théâtre National du Luxembourg (TNL) (Lux 2018).
Currently, Anthime is collaborating with their mentor, accompanist and fellow Glens Falls native Catherine Reid (Nearby, Faraway, One Life to Live) on co-writing a piece about essential workers and the pandemic to be premiered at The Hyde Museum in May 2022. This is their second collaboration with Reid, after Holding It All: A Collaborative Oratorio (Hudson Falls 2021)
Other credits include:
THEATER: Welcome to The Moon (NYC 2012), The Ugly One (NYC 2015), Codename Aschan (Lux. 2017) and L’Ecume des Jours (Lux. 2018) The Comedy of Errors (Sun Valley 2019), Richard II (In Production)
FILM: State of Grace (2011), Sins of the Son (2018), Anxiety Stroke (2018), Nosferatu (2018), Five of Wands (2019), Indifference (2021), The Choice (2021) The DoubleWalker (In Production)
Instagram - @anthimemillermusic
Jake Landau, b. 1995, is a composer, conductor, and pianist from New York City.
His music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Houston Grand Opera, Premiere Division Ballet, and more in venues such as David Geffen Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Royal Palace of Amsterdam. As a conductor, he has worked with the Little Opera Theatre of New York, Amore Opera, and Premiere Division Ballet — for the latter, conducting two of his own full-length ballets. In 2017, Jake became the youngest ever winner of the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He currently serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School's Evening Division and as the Assistant Director of the New York Youth Symphony's Composition Program. After Jake's formative studies with theater composer Lawrence Rosen, he earned his Bachelor of Music degree under John Corigliano at The Juilliard School and his Master of Studies in Music (Composition) from Oxford University
Alexia DelGiudice Bigari received her master's degree from Northwestern University, studying under the tutelage of renowned violist Helen Callus.
She received her Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School as a viola student of Misha Amory and Heidi Castleman.
In July 2021, Alexia performed in the European premiere of Jake Landau's new opera "Pieta," where she played the role of Odele, a mute violist. She will be performing in the American premiere of Pieta in May of 2022. In February 2017, Alexia debuted as viola soloist performing the Hoffmeister Viola Concerto with the Northwestern University Baroque Orchestra. In March 2018, Alexia performed with the New York City Opera Orchestra in their production of Donizetti and Rameau's "Pigmalione." She currently plays with New York City Opera, dell'Arte Opera Ensemble, and Midatlantic Orchestra. During the summer of 2017, Alexia played at the Narnia Arts Festival in Narni, Italy. Alexia attended the Orford Music Festival in Canada in 2015 - 2017 under the tutelage of Jutta Puchhammer and Eric Nowlin. She attended the Meadowmount School of Music for 2 years on merit scholarship. In 2012, Alexia had the honor of being featured on a live broadcast of National Public Radio’s “From the Top,” where she played Bloch’s Suite Hebraique with pianist Christopher O’Riley, and she was awarded the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award.
She received the Virtu Foundation Scholar Award in 2011 and she played on an 1890 Audinot Viola from Paris for 7 years.
Alexia’s awards include the Mary Foulger Scholar, New York Viola Society award, 1st place in the Young Promise Awards International Competition, a semi-finalist in the American String Teachers Association competition, a finalist in the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston competition, and a finalist in the New England String Ensemble competition
Her past teachers include, Helen Callus, Hsin -Yun Huang, Heidi Castleman, Misha Amory, Patricia McCarty, David Rubinstein, Mai Motobuchi, and Katherine Almquist. Alexia resides in New York City.
Alexia currently plays on a Viola by Douglas Cox, made in 2015.
Instagram - @thelittleviolist