Music Salon at the Crawfords

Join the Crawfords at their Norwich, CT home on Sunday, November 6th for a mid-afternoon musical salon for 20 guests!

Enjoy classical music in a casual, intimate setting among friends. Guests will be treated to a performance by fantastic ECSO-family soloists playing a salon-style program on the Crawford's piano. ECSO pianist Gary Chapman will join ECSO Concertmaster Stephan Tieszen in duets, solo pieces, and candid stories from their time in music.

Light hors d'oeuvres and libations will be provided for this inspiring afternoon.

Stephan Tieszen, violin:

Stephan Tieszen, violin, BM Mannes College of Music, MM The Juilliard School, DMA Yale School of Music, studied violin with Mischa Mischakoff, Guila Bustabo, Sally Thomas, Sidney Harth, and Gabriel Banat. Dr. Tieszen teaches violin and chamber music at Mannes College of Music and Tabor Community Arts Center, and orchestral violin classes at the Meadowmount School of Music in Elizabethtown, NY. He has taught at Yale University, the University of CT, Connecticut College, and Fairfield University. He has been Concertmaster of the Norwalk, Meriden, Bridgeport and New Britain Symphonies, and is currently Concertmaster of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Second Violin of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Tieszen appears frequently with Wall Street Chamber Players, was a founding member of the Concord Chamber Music Ensemble, and is an active performer and lecturer in educational outreach programs.

Gary Chapman, piano:

Pianist Gary Chapman has appeared as soloist with the Hartford and New Haven Symphonies, the Connecticut Orchestra at Summer Music, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, and Orchestra New England. He has also appeared as a collaborative pianist at the Spoleto USA Festival, the 92nd Street Y, Merkin Hall, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Yale at Norfolk, the Chamber Music Society at Yale, Music Mountain, the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music in Tuscon, AZ, the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival in Maine, and in Europe at Wigmore Hall in London, the American Cathedral and Salle Cortot in Paris, the Pyramid in Tirane, Albania, and at colleges and universities throughout the US.