Voices from Far Away
Mary Bonhag, soprano
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Michael Sitton, piano
J. Tavener – Akhmatova Songs
F. Chopin - Largo from Cello Sonata, Op. 65
C. Debussy - Ariettes oubliées, CD 63
J. Brahms – 2 Gesänge, Op. 91
L. Bernstein - Dream with me
F. Schubert
Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano
F. Chopin
Polonaise Op. 3
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Corbin Beisner, piano
FACES & MASQUES
April 23, 24, & 26
Violinist William Shaub (Concertmaster, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra) and Katherine Benson (TPCP Artistic Director) celebrate the release of their new album FACES & MASQUES on TPCP’s Spring Concert Series
Also on the program, cellist Ignacy Gaydamovich in Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 4 “Dumky” and 2025 Bristol Music Club winner, William Tran
FACES & MASQUES
April 23, 24, & 26
Violinist William Shaub (Concertmaster, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra) and Katherine Benson (TPCP Artistic Director) celebrate the release of their new album FACES & MASQUES on TPCP’s Spring Concert Series
Also on the program, cellist Ignacy Gaydamovich in Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 4 “Dumky” and 2025 Bristol Music Club winner, William Tran
FACES & MASQUES
April 23, 24, & 26
Violinist William Shaub (Concertmaster, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra) and Katherine Benson (TPCP Artistic Director) celebrate the release of their new album FACES & MASQUES on TPCP’s Spring Concert Series
Also on the program, cellist Ignacy Gaydamovich in Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 4 “Dumky” and 2025 Bristol Music Club winner, William Tran
Ignacy Gaydamovich Cello Faculty Recital
J. S. Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 BWV 1007
Z. Kodály - Sonata Op. 8 for cello solo
CONFRONTATIONS WITH FATE
Oct. 17th, 18th, 19th 2025
Masterpieces for piano quartet by Mozart and Brahms
CONFRONTATIONS WITH FATE
Oct. 17th, 18th, 19th 2025
Masterpieces for piano quartet by Mozart and Brahms
CONFRONTATIONS WITH FATE
Oct. 17th, 18th, 19th 2025
Masterpieces for piano quartet by Mozart and Brahms
Spring Show: Working to Transcend
~Live Music and Dance~
Join us for our spring show, Working to Transcend, which celebrates women composing against the current. We are honored to have local professional musicians performing Rebecca Clarke’s “Sonata for Viola and Piano” (1919), choreographed by Madeleine Bonn and Mikayla Archambeau, and Florence Price’s “Piano Quintet in A-minor” (1936), choregraphed by Mikayla Archambeau.
the dances
Both pieces began with the music; the choreography was developed in response to it. Each explores themes of creativity and what it means to live as an artist throughout one’s life.
The Price includes the entire school—from our youngest dancers just beginning their journey, to those with rich and varied experience in ballet. My goal was to offer every dancer meaningful movement to engage with, and to create a shared vocabulary that could resonate across all levels.
the music
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) was something of a maverick 100 years ago: a working female musician. Initially, she released her compositions under a male pseudonym to give them a better chance at reception during a time when women musicians were frowned upon.
At the beginning of her score to the sonata for viola and piano, she inscribed the words of Alfred de Musset(“La Nuit de Mai”): Poet, take your lute, the wine of youth ferments this night in the veins of God. This epigraph paraphrases the torrid drama of the piece. It is emotional, passionate, and turbulent throughout; one wonders at what the composer must have been feeling when she wrote it.
Florence Price (1887-1953) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, to the only Black dentist in town. She graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston, studying piano and organ. Price could not find work in Little Rock due to segregation, so moved to Chicago with her husband and two daughters in 1927.
In 1932 when her Symphony in e minor was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, it the first performance by a major symphony orchestra of a piece by a Black composer. Price’s piano quintet is an example of a gifted composer at the height of her powers.
the musicians
Robyn Quinnett, violin
Hillary Dumond, violin
Geoffrey Archambeau, viola
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Corbin Beisner, piano
Suggested Donation - $20
Payment forms accepted at the door: Venmo, PayPal, Cash, Check
Spring Show: Working to Transcend
~Live Music and Dance~
Join us for our spring show, Working to Transcend, which celebrates women composing against the current. We are honored to have local professional musicians performing Rebecca Clarke’s “Sonata for Viola and Piano” (1919), choreographed by Madeleine Bonn and Mikayla Archambeau, and Florence Price’s “Piano Quintet in A-minor” (1936), choregraphed by Mikayla Archambeau.
the dances
Both pieces began with the music; the choreography was developed in response to it. Each explores themes of creativity and what it means to live as an artist throughout one’s life.
The Price includes the entire school—from our youngest dancers just beginning their journey, to those with rich and varied experience in ballet. My goal was to offer every dancer meaningful movement to engage with, and to create a shared vocabulary that could resonate across all levels.
the music
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) was something of a maverick 100 years ago: a working female musician. Initially, she released her compositions under a male pseudonym to give them a better chance at reception during a time when women musicians were frowned upon.
At the beginning of her score to the sonata for viola and piano, she inscribed the words of Alfred de Musset(“La Nuit de Mai”): Poet, take your lute, the wine of youth ferments this night in the veins of God. This epigraph paraphrases the torrid drama of the piece. It is emotional, passionate, and turbulent throughout; one wonders at what the composer must have been feeling when she wrote it.
Florence Price (1887-1953) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, to the only Black dentist in town. She graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston, studying piano and organ. Price could not find work in Little Rock due to segregation, so moved to Chicago with her husband and two daughters in 1927.
In 1932 when her Symphony in e minor was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, it the first performance by a major symphony orchestra of a piece by a Black composer. Price’s piano quintet is an example of a gifted composer at the height of her powers.
the musicians
Robyn Quinnett, violin
Hillary Dumond, violin
Geoffrey Archambeau, viola
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Corbin Beisner, piano
Suggested Donation - $20
Payment forms accepted at the door: Venmo, PayPal, Cash, Check
ABOUT
Short bio
Ignacy Gaydamovich is a cellist with an international career as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He has performed with orchestras across the U.S. and abroad and given solo recitals in countries including Panama, Lithuania, Japan, and Russia. His chamber music collaborations have taken him to venues in China, Japan, and Poland, among others.
Gaydamovich has held teaching positions at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, Texas Christian University, and Stetson University. He has also presented guest masterclasses at institutions in the United States and Europe. He is currently Assistant Professor of Cello at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN.
His honors include the Grand Prix and prizes for solo and chamber performance at the Allegro Vivo Festival (Austria) and Third Prize at the K. Bacewicz International Chamber Music Competition (Poland). He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Hartt School, along with additional graduate and postgraduate degrees from the Longy School of Music, The Boston Conservatory, Texas Christian University, and the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw.
600 words bio
Ignacy Gaydamovich is a cellist with a career that spans multiple continents. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Hartt School Symphony Orchestra (West Hartford, CT), the Manchester Symphony Orchestra, the National Radio and TV Orchestra of Tirana (Albania), the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestra, and the Conservatory Music in the Mountains Orchestra (Durango, CO).
He has performed solo cello recitals internationally, with appearances in Panama and Lithuania. His recitals with piano have brought him to venues such as the House of Rachmaninoff Festival in Ivanovka, Russia, the National Library in Panama City, Oizumi Hall in Tokyo, the American Christian University in Beirut, and the Allegro Vivo Music Festival in Horn, Austria.
Gaydamovich has performed chamber music in venues including the Qingdao Westin Hotel Hall in China, the Nippon Bank Hall in Fukuoka, Japan, and the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall in Poland. In the United States, his solo recitals have included appearances at the Viva Bach Peterborough Music Festival (NH), the Abbott Public Library (Marblehead, MA), and the Boston Public Library. He also regularly performs historically informed recitals on period instruments at the Frederick Collection of Historical Pianos in Ashburnham, MA, collaborating on several occasions with pianist Jiayan Sun.
He has held teaching positions at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, Texas Christian University, and most recently at Stetson University in DeLand, FL. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Cello at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in Johnson City, TN. His festival teaching includes engagements at Orfeo Music Festival (Vipiteno, Italy), the Qingdao International Classical Music Festival and Competition (China), Cellofest (Panama City), and the Vivace Vilnius International Music Festival (Lithuania). He has also presented masterclasses at the Crane School of Music (NY), the University of Mississippi (Hattiesburg), and the Chopin University of Music (Warsaw, Poland).
His awards include the Grand Prix and prizes for solo and chamber music at the Allegro Vivo Festival (Horn, Austria, 2005), and Third Prize at the K. Bacewicz International Chamber Music Competition (Łódź, Poland, 2004). He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Hartt School, Graduate Performance Diplomas from the Longy School of Music and The Boston Conservatory, a Master of Music degree from Texas Christian University, and a Master of Arts degree from the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. His principal teachers include Terry King, Rhonda Rider, and Jesús Castro-Balbi, Kazimierz Michalik and Andrzej Bauer.
Outside of music, Gaydamovich is an amateur cyclist and participates in local criterium and road races.
J. S. Bach - Suite for Cello Solo in G Major BWV 1007 - Viva Bach Peterborough 2025
All Saints Episcopal Church in Peterborough, NH Viva Bach Peterborough, 2025
Rachmaninoff’s Trio élégiaque No. 1
Joel Pitchon, violin
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Jiayan Sun, piano
Smith College 2023
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Jiayan Sun, piano Frederick
Historical Piano Collection Concert Series
October 2017 Ashburnham, MA
Audio Recording by Christopher Greenleaf
G. Ligeti - Sonata for Solo Cello, 2nd mov.
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
1st Prize at the Allegro Vivo International Competition
August 2005
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Jiayan Sun, piano Frederick
Historical Piano Collection Concert Series
October 2017 Ashburnham, MA
Audio Recording by Christopher Greenleaf
National Radio and Tv Orchestra of Tirana in Albania
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Bruce Hangen, conductor
June 1st, 2012
Hartt School Symphony Orchestra
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello solo
Edward Cumming, conductor
May 3, 2019
Arr. by Ignacy Gaydamovich
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Taiko Pelick, piano
Cellofest Panama City,
March 2019
Scores available at: https://gaydamovich.com/shop/souvenirs
IGNACY GAYDAMOVICH, gut-strung violoncello
JIAYAN SUN, 1871 Streicher concert grand
Music from the Frederick Collection
Sunday, 5 September 2021 Ashburnham, MA, USA
STREAMING
arr. by Ignacy Gaydamovich
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Violin part arranged for cello by I. Gaydamovich
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arr. for string orchestra or string quartet. Intermediate to Advanced levels
Score and Parts
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