Brevard Music Center First Monday Concert

March 4 at 12:30 PM in the Scott Concert Hall at the Porter Center of Brevard College The Brevard Music Center presents the First Monday Concert.

Cellist Alistair MacRae has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral principal throughout the United States and in Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. His playing has been praised for its "rich sound and lyrical phrasing" (Palm Beach Daily News) and his performances have been featured in radio broadcasts across the United States.

As a New York-based chamber musician, he has appeared on Carnegie Hall's Making Music Series, as a member of Fountain Ensemble (NY) and the Berkshire Bach Ensemble (MA), with the Manhattan Sinfonietta, Suedama Ensemble (NY), and counter)induction (NY); and at summer festivals such as Monadnock Music (NH), Music Festival of the Hamptons (NY), and the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival. He has been heard at major New York chamber music venues such as Carnegie's Zankel and Weill Halls, BargeMusic, Merkin Hall, the 92nd St Y, and Miller Theatre at Columbia University. His recent se asons have included premiere performances of new works at Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Harvard Universities; recordings of chamber music by Telemann and Laurie Altman; music for The Discovery Channel; and ensemble CDs of music by Mozart and Scott Joplin. His eclectic collaborations have found him on stage with Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Westminster Choir, tap dancer Savion Glover, jazz bassist Ben Wolfe, the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, and the rock band The Scorpions. 

Mr. MacRae teaches cello at Princeton University and is on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center (NC). He has given master classes and lecture-performances through the American String Teachers Association and at Marshall University (WV), the University of Utah, Palm Beach Community College (FL), and Kings College (PA). He holds degrees from Princeton University and the Manhattan School of Music.

The program includes BACH Suite No. 3 in C major for Solo Cello CASSADÓ Suite for Violoncello.