Tina Guo, cello and Bryan Pezzone, piano at Sundays Live playing a program of Classical, Jazz, Cinematic, and Fusion Music. They will be playing music by Chopin, John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Duke Ellington, Penka D Kouneva, Nuno Freire Malo, Dan Cullen & Deryn Cullen, and more! ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Tina Guo has developed an international multifaceted performance and recording career as a classical cellist and heavy metal electric cellist, erhuist, and composer known for her distinctive sound and improvisatory style in major motion picture, television, and game scores. She is featured in such commercials for Mazda, United Airlines, composed the music for the Trailer of Feature Film The Best Offer, composed additional music for Feature Film Persecuted, and was also a featured soloist in Cirque Du Soleil’s Michael Jackson “The Immortal” World Tour in 2011–13, performing in sold-out arenas around the world. Tina can be heard as a soloist on the soundtracks of Sherlock Holmes, Iron Man 2, Clash of the Titans, Olympus Has Fallen, Inception, CSI:NY, Vikings, The Borgias, Diablo III, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and Grammy-Nominated Journey. Tina will appear in March 2015 on Shameless (Showtime) as Gilly and also provided original music for the show. As a classical cello soloist, Guo has appeared as a guest artist with the San Diego Symphony, the State of Mexico National Symphony, the Thessaloniki State Symphony in Greece, the Petrobras Symphony in Brazil, and the Vancouver Island Symphony in British Columbia. She also performed with violinist Midori Goto in Dvorak’s American String Quartet at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and completed four national tours of Mexico and Italy performing the Shostakovich, Dvorak, Haydn, and Saint-Saëns Cello Concertos. Tina recently received Congressional recognition from the United States House of Representatives, and named the 2014 Asian Heritage Honoree in Best of Innovation. Guo’s musical education began at the age of three, when she started her piano studies in Shanghai, China. She continued her professional cello studies with Eleonore Schoenfeld at the the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music on full scholarship and was also a Governor’s Scholar for academic excellence. She also holds a bachelors in Metaphysics and co-owns MG MUSIC, a production company with her husband R. Armando Morabito. The company has provided music for the WWE, NHL, FOX, PGA, Ferrari, and the American Heroes Channel. Tinas other endeavors include Philanthropy, Business, and Private Investments. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Pianist Bryan Pezzone is the consummate crossover pianist of his generation. He has excelled in classical, contemporary, jazz and experimental genres and is known for both his versatility and virtuosity as a performing artist, improviser, and composer. Pezzone performs with composers and musicians as diverse as Pierre Boulez, John Williams, and John Adams, and records on countless film and television soundtracks. He has performed with many major symphony orchestras such as the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Pasadena Pops, Santa Monica Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute Orchestra, United State International University Orchestra, U.C. Irvine Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Philharmonic, and the Pacific Symphony. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• LACMA’s weekly chamber music series, Sundays Live, features the best of national, international, Los Angeles and emerging artists. These one-hour concerts are presented free to the public at 6 pm each Sunday in the Leo S. Bing Theater. Begun in 1948, Sundays Live is the longest-running live music broadcast in Los Angeles. Fifty Sundays of the year, professional and emerging musicians perform for one hour (6PM – 7PM) on the stage of the Leo S. Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The series began its broadcast life in 1948 on radio station KFWB and later migrated to stations KFAC, KUSC, KMZT and KCSN. These free programs are streamed live in real time at lacma.org and heard through the week as a podcast on our broadcast partner kusc.org. At least 25,000 people now attend every year in person and many thousands more listen to the only weekly live classical music stream serving Southern California. Sundays Live is made possible in part by The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Colburn Foundation, the Mandell Family Foundation, the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, and the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:52:20 +0000
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