The Art of the Cello features members of Poetica Musica, Artists in Residence at Old Westbury Gardens.

Cellist, Eugene Moye, and pianist, Natasa Mitrovic, perform works by Bach, Debussy, and Franck. The concert will take place in the Red Ballroom of Westbury Gardens.  A pre-concert talk will take place at 7:30 pm.  A Meet-the Artists reception will follow the concert.

 Works will feature the Sonata for cello in A Major by Cézar Franck, the Sonata for cello by     Claude Debussy and the Adagio by Johann Sebastian Bach.

 EUGENE MOYE is the principal cellist of the American Symphony Orchestra,  the American Composers Orchestra, the Opera Orchestra of New York, and the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra. As a soloist, he  has played the world premier of a cello concerto by Francais Thorne at Carnegie Hall and the “Millennium Concerto” by Harold Farberman at Avery Fisher Hall. He also premiered the concerto by David Baker with the New York Philharmonic. After his recital at the 92nd Street Y, the New York Times called him one of the “foremost cellists of his generation” In addition he has collaborated with virtually every major pop artist, including Ricky Martin, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Tony Bennet, Garth Brooks, and Kiss on recordings, live performances and videos.

NATASHA MITROVIC, pianist, is a native of Serbia and now teaches at the Music Academy in Belgrade. Ms Mitrovic received a Fulbright Grant to attend the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and has won many prizes for piano performance including a prize from the Music Academy in Belgrade for her contribution as pedagogue and  performer, First prize at the International Competition in San Bartolomeo al Mare in Italy and Second prize at the International Competition for pianists in Rome. She has performed as a piano soloist with most of the major orchestras in Serbia and Montenegro and  with the Bulgarian Philharmonic, and orchestras in Germany. She has given recitals and performed as a chamber musician in France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Bulgaria and the United States and has recorded for television and radio in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Macedonia and with RAI, in Italy.

Tickets are $25.00 members and $30.00 non-members and will be available beginning March 1.

The concert is supported in part the IBM Matching Grant program, and the Irene Levoy Foundation.