Composer/Pianist Haskell Small will perform the World Premiere of his Concerto for Bassoon and Piano with bassoonist Arnold Irchai and the Mount Vernon Orchestra, under their Music Director Ulysses S. James on Sunday, June 8 - 7 PM at West Potomac High School, 6500 Quander Road in Alexandria, Virginia.

The orchestra, lead by their Music Director, will also perform J. S. Bach's Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1044 in A Minor (with soloists from the orchestra, Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Soprano Martha Ellison and Elgar's Enigma Variations.

Tickets for the June 8 concert are Adults $20, Seniors & College Students $17.00 and children under 18 free. For more ticket information or to purchase tickets online, please visit the Mount Vernon Orchestra website at http://www.mvorchestra.org/Orchestr.htm.

The Mount Vernon Orchestra is a community orchestra composed of professional and non-professional musicians. It offers challenge and excitement for the serious musician. Visit them online at http://www.mvorchestra.org.

Hailed by England's Musical Times for his "dazzlingly prodigious technique", Haskell Small first came to public attention after winning the Pittsburgh Concert Society auditions at the age of 21.

A recipient of a solo recitalist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a semifinalist in the Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition, Mr. Small's concerts throughout the United States, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center, and the Spoleto Festival have won him an enthusiastic following. Mr. Small was featured in the PBS television special A Celebration of the Piano, taped at Wolf Trap. In recent seasons, Mr. Small has made several tours of Japan and performed recitals in Paris and London.

Following in the tradition of 18th and 19th century pianist/composers, Haskell Small is also an accomplished composer, who often performs his own works. He has received commissions from such organizations as the Washington Performing Arts Society, Three Rivers Piano Competition, Georgetown Symphony and Paul Hill Chorale, and he was the winner of the 1999 Marin Ballet Dance Score Competition.

Following Small's premiere performance, Tim Page of The Washington Post lauded the composer's Symphony for Solo Piano as a serious and substantial composition that deserves a permanent place in the keyboard repertory." The composer's recording of Symphony for Solo Piano has also received wonderful reviews, including from Records International at http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogDec00.html.

For more information about Haskell Small, visit him at his website - http://www.jamesarts.com/h-small/, or contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

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