Art After Hours: Iridescence Trio
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Mansion

The Iridescence Trio, an ensemble of three female flutists, represents a vibrant new addition to the chamber music scene of the greater DC area. Very rarely do audiences have the chance to experience flutes-only chamber music. At times with this trio, you might even spot a piccolo or alto flute in the midst of the other flutes. Flutes offer grace and delicate purity, but also have the power to scintillate with fast fingers and boundless energy. There's no other sound quite like flutes shimmering in harmony, and there's certainly no sound so lustrous as the one created when the individual tones of Iridescence entwine.

Of course, the players' individual sounds and personalities are rooted in their diverse backgrounds:

Yvonne Kocur enjoys a varied performing and teaching career, a combination of her two passions. She performs regularly not only with the Iridescence Trio, but also with the Capital Wind Symphony and the American Balalaika Symphony. She is a frequent soloist at several Virginia churches, and plays locally with guitarist Simon Phillips. In May 2006, she was a member of the National Wind Ensemble, which performed in Carnegie Hall.

Lauren Sileo performs frequently as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player. She has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia at major concert halls including Carnegie Hall, The New York Philharmonic's Avery Fisher Hall, The Kennedy Center in DC and Dai-Ichi Seimei Hall in Tokyo. Sileo was accepted to The Juilliard School with the highest honor of Presidential Distinction and was the only undergraduate flutist worldwide to be accepted for the 2002-2003 academic year.

Holly Vesilind, a native of the Northern Virginia area, has had the wonderful privilege of studying with Anne Diener Zentner of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Judith Lapple of the Air Force Band, Thomas Perazzoli and Aaron Goldman of the National Symphony as well as Stephani Stang of the Kennedy Center Orchestra. Her love for teaching music has taken her across the country to Los Angeles and back again. Upon her recent return to the area, Vesilind has played in the Iridescence Flute Trio, the AgAu Flute Quartet, and the Pan American Symphony Orchestra.