Two virtuoso soloists, Cellist Elaine Kreston, and
Bass Clarinetist/Clarinetist Laura Carmichael,
visiting from Amsterdam, perform an all new solo and
duo program filled with beautiful tones in striking and 
creative combination.

Otherworldly and intense duos by Xenakis and Kaija
Saariaho, upbeat rhythms from New York composer Derek
Bermel, who introduced the musicians to each other,
Isang Yun's monologue and Eric Dolphy's God Bless the
Child for solo bass clarinet, and a new work for solo
cello by Jeff Purmont, and a lyrical solo cello
offering from Augusta read Thomas.  Profound and
intense musical statements are made in the music on
this concert.  Not for the faint of heart, but
poignant and rich for the listener waiting to hear a
soulful cry.

A second performance of the concertwas performed
at the Berkeley Art Center on Sunday 27th January, at
7:30 pm.


BIOGRAPHIES

Elaine Kreston, cellist, currently lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area, where she performs with groups
including the Santa Rosa Symphony and the New Century
Chamber Orchestra.

As a former New York resident, she appeared as a
chamber musician at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie
Hall, the Kosciuszko Foundation and Steinway Hall.  As
a member of the new music group Musicians Accord, she
has been featured on WNYC radio, and she has also
performed on Broadway.  Ms. Kreston has performed
throughout the United States, including recitals at
the Chicago Cultural Center, the Music in the Loft
Series, Jordan Hall and the Isabella Stuart Gardner
Museum in Boston, and Harvard University's New Music
Series.  With the new music group NonSequitur
(formerly the resident Aspen Contemporary Ensemble,
ACE), she participated in the winter residency program
of the Aspen Music Festival.  She has also toured
extensively in Europe, where she was an artist with
the European Mozart Foundation.  As concerto soloist,
Ms. Kreston's appearances include London, England, and
Chicago's Orchestra Hall.  She has been featured by
New York's unique and acclaimed chamber orchestra, the
Jupiter Symphony, and was earlier a member of the
Carnelian String Quartet and the Austin Symphony
Orchestra.

Ms. Kreston received a Bachelor's Degree in Music from
the New England Conservatory, where she studied with
Laurence Lesser, and, later, Colin Carr.  She received
a Master's Degree from the University of Texas at
Austin where she studied with Paul Olefsky.  She has
also been featured in master classes led by Yo-Yo Ma,
Mario Brunello, Aldo Parisot, and William Pleeth.


Clarinetist and Bass Clarinetist Laura Carmichael is
currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where
she has been working and touring with the dance group
Chriztina de Chatel in Dylan Newcomb's "Tell Me," a
new piece for four musicians and five dancers which
incorporates music, improvisation, text, and movement.
 She is presently creating a radio piece for Radio
Netherlands, and she has played in various projects
with the Sweelink Contemporary Music Group under
direction of Harry Sparnaay in the Ijsbreaker and the
Stedelijk Museum.  She has also performed in Theo
Loevendie's Birthday Celebration Concert in the
Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and in chamber music at the
Beurs van Berlage and the Paradiso, and in Berlin with
members of the Kairos String Quartet.  Last season she
made her New York solo debut at Merkin Hall with an
all contemporary program, and she has also recently
performed and given masterclasses at the University of
Texas at Austin, Northern Arizona University, and
California Institute for the Arts.

As a long-time resident of the San Francisco Bay Area,
she performed with ensembles and orchestras such as
the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Santa Rosa
Symphony, the San Francisco Contemporary Music
Players, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Left
Coast Ensemble, and John Schott's Diaglossia, an
ensemble which bridges new composition with
improvisation.  She also founded and directed
Alternate Currents, a new music ensemble which held a
two year residency at ODC/SF Theater, and received
awards and grants from the Copland Foundation,
Zellerbach Family Fund, and Chamber Music America.
She studied at the University of Michigan with Fred
Ormand, privately in California with Rosario Mazzeo,
and recently completed post-graduate studies at the
Conservatory of Amsterdam in bass clarinet with Harry
Sparnaay.