Grammy® Award-Recognized Pianists Allison Brewster Franzetti  And Carlos Franzetti Return To Perform At Next Maurice River Music Salon Concert On February 17

MAURICETOWN, NJ—Multiple Grammy® award-nominated pianist Allison Brewster Franzetti and three-time Grammy® award-winning composer/pianist Carlos Franzetti will return as the featured performers at Maurice River Music’s next salon concert on Sunday, February 17, at 2:30 p.m., at a residence in the Mauricetown, NJ area. 

They will perform music for one and two pianos by composers from New Jersey and New York—Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Paul Mack Somers, Amanda Harberg, Bill Evans, and Carlos Franzetti. 

Making her third salon concert appearance Allison Brewster Franzetti is a multiple Grammy® Nominee and 2008 Grammy® Nominee for Best Instrumental Soloist without Orchestra. She has received international acclaim from critics and audiences alike for her stunning virtuosity and musicality, both as a soloist and chamber musician. 

She was most recently invited to perform at the Grammy® Awards Classical Music Tribute to Earl Wild and Lang Lang at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Other invitations include performances at the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, the Robert Schumann Festival at the Marcella Sembrich Museum in Lake George, New York, the Campeche Festival in Mexico, and at the opening of the VI International Festival of Music at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

Her Grammy®-Nominated CD, 20th Century Piano Sonatas, was released on the Naxos label in July 2007. Her 2012-13 recordings include the Complete Piano Works of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, released on Naxos’ new label, Grand Piano, garnering rave reviews. She is the 2003 Grammy® Award Nominee for Poeta de Arrabal on Amapola Records for Best Classical Crossover Album, and the 2002 Latin Grammy® Award Nominee for Tango Bar on Chesky Records for Best Tango Album. 

She is a featured soloist on the 2001 Latin Grammy® Award Winner Tango Fatal on Amapola Records, Images Before Dawn – Symphonic Music of Carlos Franzetti on Premier Recordings, and the 1997 Grammy® Award Winner Portraits of Cuba on Chesky Records. She has recorded two major works by Roberto Sierra, El Mensajero de Plata and Bayoán, with the Bronx Arts Ensemble for Newport Classics and Albany Records. She has also recorded Latin American and English chamber music for the Musical Heritage Society. 

Carlos Franzetti, making his second salon concert appearance, won the 2013 Latin Grammy® Award in the category of Best Classical Composition, having previously been a 2012 Latin Grammy® Nominee in the category of Best Classical Composition, a 2012 Grammy® Nominee in the category of Best Instrumental Arrangement, the 2009 Latin Grammy® Award Winner in the category of Best Instrumental Album, a 2007 Latin Grammy® Nominee in the category of Best Instrumental Album, a 2006 Grammy® Nominee in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for his opera Corpus Evita, a double 2003 Grammy® Nominee for Poeta de Arrabal in the categories of Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement, and the 2001 Latin Grammy® Award Winner for Best Tango Album, Tango Fatal. 

The many other recordings of his compositions include the 1999 Grammy® Award Nominee Obsesion for Sony Records, produced by Branford Marsalis, and the 2002 Latin Grammy® Nominee Tango Bar on Chesky Records.

Future Maurice River Music salon concerts will include repeat appearances by clarinetist Christopher Di Santo with violinist Ruotao Mao and pianist Michael Sheadel on March 24, and, in his salon concert debut, marimba virtuoso Makoto Nakura, on April 7. All concerts will be at 2:30 p.m.

Seating is very limited, so reservations are required. Donations to assist in covering expenses will be accepted. To reserve seats, receive directions, or receive more information on the series, please call Maurice River Music at 856-506-0580, e-mail them at info@mauricerivermusic.com, or visit their website at www.mauricerivermusic.com.