Chaconne #28 – August 14, 2015

Private performance while serving as Artist Faculty at Bennington Chamber Music Conference.  Greenwall, Auditorium, Bennington College, Vermont 10:30pm The work is certainly changing, literally under my own hands.   Allemande, Corrente, Sarabande, Gigue, Chaccone: deep within that one continuous flow of thoughts and feelings some core element is starting to emerge, beginning to come to my awareness.…

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TOMORROW NIGHT! June 6th, 7pm NYC 43 W. 13th Street 10011

A wonderful early evening program: Composer/Bassist Jeffrey Levine and Friends: featuring a selection of his solo piano works performed by Adrienne Kim, Shem and Jeff performing his ballet music Three Dances from Paper Castles, AND – with cellist Julia Bruskin and violist Désirée Elsevier – Schubert’s Piano Quintet “The Trout”. Refreshments offered starting at 6:30 PM, music at 7 (donations invited) Tenri…

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Chaconne #26 – April 6, 2015 Private home NYC

I am very excited to be playing for one of my dear creative colleagues next Monday.  Since the last Chaconne (#25, 12/28/2014) I have been focussed on moving my residence, and have allowed the Bach to lie fallow through the deep winter. Now it is Spring, and I am coming back to the Bach after…

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Evolution – March 19th 8 PM Bennington College

Evolution of a 21st Century Violinist Violinist Shem Guibbory with Percussionist Rex Benincasa March 19, 2014, 8 P.M.   FREE ADMISSION Deane Carriage Barn  Bennington College, Bennington Vermont “I have played everything from Bach to Debussy, for real art should be international”  violinist Eugene Ysaÿe Adagio and Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1001 (circa 1722/1723)  …

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Chaconne #22 Bennington College March 18, 10 PM

On campus in the CAPA LENS. Tuesday night’s 10 p.m. performance of the entire D Minor Partita produced one of the most memorable results I have ever experienced as a soloist.  The audience of about 60 or so stayed sitting together in a profound, relaxed silence for a good 8-10 minutes.  Slowly, one or two…

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Chaconne #21 – December 17, 2013 Jackson Heights Jewish Center

7:00 Holiday Concert at the Jackson Heights Jewish Center, Queens I have played this seasonal concert for many years and it is always great fun  – so many wonderful people from the neighborhood show up, and the programs are always interesting!   A really fine Tango segment (singer Chris Vasquez and pianist Cesar Vuksic), Arabic music (including Simon…

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Chaconne #20 – December 8, 2013 – private home

for colleagues and friends.  This performance was a good one – I was happy with the spirit and mood I was able to create; I had to keep substituting listening deeply for thinking, for mental activity.    I worked a lot at exploring many places for playing at soft dynamic levels, leaving the higher levels…

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