CSM's Benny C. Morgan Series Features Violinist Ledah Finck Oct. 16

CSM's Benny C. Morgan Series Features Violinist Ledah Finck Oct. 16

The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) kicks off a season of free virtual concerts Saturday Oct. 16 when violinist, violist, improviser, and composer Ledah Finck's performs for the Benny Morgan Recital Series. 

Finck is a passionate performer, creator, and curator of contemporary classical music. She is a co-founder of the Bergamot String Quartet and experimental duo The Witches, in addition to being a member of Atlantic Extraction (jazz quintet led by Nick Dunston) and earspace ensemble (contemporary music ensemble based in Raleigh, NC). As a composer, she has been commissioned by Imani Winds, Alarm Will Sound/Now Hear This, the Bridge Ensemble, and The Peabody Community Chorus among others. Her music embodies a desire to create and share a sound-world in which the classical tradition, the folk music with which she grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and an extensive improvisatory sensibility can be in productive dialogue. 

In 2019 she has been invited to perform as part of the Sitka Summer Music Festival and the Lucerne Festival Alumni tour. With the Bergamot Quartet, activities for this year include participation in the Quatuor Diotima Academy in France, the Next Festival of Emerging Artists, the Banff Centre Evolution of the String Quartet program, and the Young Artist Development Series in El Paso, Tx. Ledah has also participated in Ensemble Modern's Klangspuren Academy, the Bang on a Can summer institute at MASS MoCA, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program. She holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in violin performance and composition from the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Herbert Greenberg, Oscar Bettison, and Judah Adashi, and studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Kenan Scholarship, a full fellowship for musical and academic merit.  

Join us for the watch party on Oct. 16 at 3 p.m.
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If you miss the watch party, the performance will be available for 24 hours, starting at 3 p.m., on CSM's Youtube channel.