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Erik Lindgren with Friends from the Brockton Symphony In Concert

Sunday, November 22, 2015 from 5:30–7 PM

Pianist/composer Erik Lindgren will be in concert with his lively quartet consisting of members of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble will present an invigorating evening of crossover chamber music sans boundaries including quirky Musical Novelties, impressionistic tone poems, original tangos, neo-Baroque escapades, plus rollicking arrangements of Leroy Anderson and Raymond Scott chestnuts. A pleasant and uplifting time is guaranteed for all!

• Thomasine Berg-flute
• Torben Hansen-clarinet
• Mark Finklestein-bassoon
• Erik Lindgren-piano

Thomasine Berg was principal flutist in the conductor’s symposium orchestra at the Vienna Conservatory, and has been a member of the Flint (Michigan) Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Festival Orchestra of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, and the Blue Hills Chamber Players in the Boston area. Most recently, she served as editor of classical music and visual arts for the Boston Globe while continuing to perform as a freelance chamber musician and soloist.

Torben Hansen has studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mount Union College, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and the New England Conservatory of Music. He has soloed with the Chamber Orchestra of Cape Ann, the Tri-Town Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Wind Symphony. Mr. Hansen is principal clarinet with the Brockton Symphony and Quincy Symphony Orchestras, and the chair of the BrSO.

Mark Finklestein is a physician by day and musician by night. He is the principal oboist for the Brockton Symphony Orchestra and the principal bassoonist for the Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra.. He has 20 years of professional musical experience and also performs in chamber groups and recitals on clarinet, oboe, English horn, and bassoon.

Erik Lindgren has a catalog of over six dozen works, ranging from solo piano pieces to chamber music to orchestral works. In 2012, the Georgia Symphony Orchestra commissioned Lindgren to write “Extreme Spirituals,” a 25-minute work for orchestra and bass baritone soloist which was premiered in Atlanta.

Erik Lindgren scores consummate musicianship from the spatially abstract to a defining American vernacular. Erik Lindgren IS American music. — Van Dyke Parks

Note: All are welcome to join the musicians across the street for dinner at the S&S Deli & Restaurant