Orion Piano Quartet: Resonance
Sunday, March 29, 3 – 5 PM (Doors open at 2 PM)
Classical Music Sundays
Tickets: $45, Kids 12 and under are free
Featuring:
Irina Nuzova, Piano
Beryl Diamond Chacon, Violin
Alexander McLaughlin, Viola
An-Lin Bardin, Cello
Music of Mozart, Dvorak, and Gianono
This program will delve into groundbreaking Piano Quartets – one from each Century. They will start with the Mozart Piano Quartet in Gm, move on to the Romanticism of the Dvorak Piano Quartet in Eb, and then perform a 21st C Classical Rock n’ Roll Piano Quartet written for Beryl and the Orion Piano Quartet by composer Joe Gianono.
Join us to experience the internationally reknowned pianist Irina Nuzova, violinist Beryl Diamond Chacon, Yale master violist Alexander McLaughlin and lyrical cellist An-Lin Barden performing the world of Classical Piano Quartet.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Irina Nuzova
Concert Pianist Irina Nuzova maintains a busy performance schedule year-round in the U.S. and Europe. Her performances include concerts at the Phillips Collection and the National Gallery in Washington DC, the Gardner Museum in Boston, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Schubert Club in St. Paul, as well as numerous concerts in Italy, Brazil, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
A passionate teacher, Moscow-born Nuzova has given Master Classes at the Music Institute of Chicago, the Schwob School of Music in GA, the Colburn Conservatory in LA and the Purcell School of Music in London, UK, among many others.
Ms. Nuzova currently teaches at The Special Music School in NY. She previously taught on Faculty at the Hartt School of Music. During the Summer months, Ms. Nuzova teaches and performs at the Olympus Musicus Festival in Prague, the EUROARTS festival in Poland, and both the Clazz International Festival and the Perugia Music Festivals in Italy.
Ms. Nuzova is a co-founder, with concert violinist Dmitry Berlinsky, of the Juventus Pro Musica, a program that presents chamber music concerts for young professionals.
Beryl Diamond Chacon
Beryl Diamond Chacon, Violin, is passionate about making music that speaks to all generations. As a young Juilliard grad, Beryl broke boundaries by breaking down programming and presenting in non-formal listening spaces. She created the Guggenheim WorldBeat Jazz Series, as well as the Met Museum ‘s weekend series of Music on the Balcony, with over 2000 performances with her Piano Quintet.
Traveling worldwide, Beryl has brought her music making to St Bart’s, being presented to and playing for the Queen at Hampton Court, creating light Night Music at Lincoln Center’s Mid Summers Series, appearing onstage on Broadway as Violin Soloist with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as recording for legends Tony Bennett, Carly Simon and Billy Joel and backing up Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra.
Chamber Music projects include recording Joe Gianono’s The Orion, a Piano Quartet which was written for Beryl and her group, Beryllium. In June 2025, Beryl created a hip hop Acoustic version of Rap songs (mentioned in Vogue) as well as performing with her Pop Rock group, Beryllium. As a guest performing artist at the most recent Charles Ives Music Festival, Beryl performed Piano and String works of young, emerging composers.
Alex McLaughlin
Violist Alex McLaughlin enjoys the many facets of performing, from traveling to Edinburgh Castle with the Strawberry Hill Fiddlers to serving as the Principal Violist with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra (ECSO), as well as joyfully sharing the world of music with young listeners.
Alex graduated from both the Eastman School of Music, where he received the Robert L Oppelt award, and the Yale School of Music, where he was a featured artist in the Oneppo Chamber Series.
Alex has concertized in several festivals in the United States, including the Spoleto Festival, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Weekend of Chamber Music, and the Endless Mountain Music Festival.
In addition to the ECSO, where he recently performed as the Viola Soloist in Mozart’s Sinfonie Concertante, Alex performs with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, and the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra.
Alex has had the honor of working with many masters of the Viola in his career, including Emily Schaad, Carol Rodland, Ettore Causa, Jeffrey Irvine, Masumi Per Rostad, and Kim Kashkashian. He currently performs on a 1970 viola by Otto Erdesz.
An-Lin Bardin
An-Lin Bardin, Cello. Described as “stunning” by the New York Times, cellist An-Lin Bardin currently teaches cello and chamber music at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the cellist for the Bardin-Niskala Duo, an acclaimed cello-piano duo that seeks to encourage empathy and compassion in society by exploring identity through the lens of music. Additionally, she co-directs the Winterhaven Chamber Music Retreat, a chamber music festival for amateur adult string and piano players in NH.
Bardin is a laureate of several prestigious international quartet competitions, including the Paolo Borciani Quartet Competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy, the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition, Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, and the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competitions in the United States, from her time as the cellist for the Vinca Quartet. She has performed extensively throughout Europe and the US, including Carnegie’s Perlman and Weill Halls, Aspen, and Vilar Performing Arts Center. Bardin’s performances have been broadcast on Deutschlandradio and WNYC.
She has served as the Artist-in-Residence for the Perlman Music Program in Sarasota, Florida, and was a recipient of a DAAD scholarship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), a fellowship that enabled her to study with the Vogler String Quartet in Stuttgart, Germany. Bardin also studied extensively with Gunter Pichler and Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartet, Walter Levine of the LaSalle Quartet, under the auspices of the ProQuartet Odyssée Program in Paris, France. Through the Carnegie Hall Chamber Music Workshops, she has worked with the Emerson String Quartet, and she was graduate assistant to the Takacs Quartet at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
A strong proponent of music education, Bardin is a founding member of Music Haven, an intensive mentorship program serving youth in New Haven, Connecticut. Raised in California by two nuclear physicists, Bardin began her cello studies at the age of eight with Irene Sharp. She holds a B.S. from Yale University in Geology and Geophysics, and an M.M. from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Aldo Parisot and was a member of the Grammy-Award-winning Yale Cellos.
You may also like the following events from The Granite Church:
Also check out other
Entertainment events in Redding,
Music events in Redding,
Festivals in Redding.
