The day I met Angelique Montes at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, she walked into her teacher’s office carrying her cello in a backpack. She took off the backpack, unzipped it, pulled out the cello, tuned it, and told me she would play …
Classical Instrumental Spring Piano Concert
Lupin Recital Hall
Wednesday, May 15
6:30pm
Cello player Angelique Montes, a senior at Benjamin Franklin High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, recently learned she is one of 120 American students chosen to the elite National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, a program of Carnegie …
Teen cellist Angelique Montes isn’t as famous as Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr., but the young New Orleanian is on her way to joining those illustrious graduates of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. In fact, Montes will spend part of the …
In New Orleans, we’re accustomed to frequent encounters with friends, whether chatting along the parade route or attending a concert by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. This week, the LPO is hosting two good friends: composer Stephen Dankner and Gabriela Montero, the internationally acclaimed Venezuelan pianist.
Montero wowed …
The Faubourg Quartet presents
Evening of Schumann and Dankner’s String Quartets
February 19, 2013
7:00pm
in the Nims Black Box Theatre at NOCCA
Free Admission
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New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) Classical Instrumental Piano students received strong standings in the recent 36th Louisiana State University School of Music Performing Arts Academy Bach Contest. All five students competing were recognized among the 130 pre-collegiate piano contestants from around the state.
“NOCCA …
The musicians behind the Coats for Kids benefit concert know that it’s not enough to warm hearts at the holidays. They also want to keep children warm at school bus stops, playgrounds and anywhere else they may wander during the cold weather months in New …
The Faubourg Quartet invites you to its annual charity Coats for Kids concert on Monday, November 19. The concert takes place at 7:00pm at St. Louis Cathedral, in New Orleans’ historic Jackson Square. Admission to the concert is free, but please consider bringing one clean coat (any size) to benefit Coats for …
