Saturday's All Right for a....Concert or 2 or 3 or more.

The Russell Library welcomes the return of Quartet New Generation, or QNG, if you please, for a 2 pm. show in Hubbard Room.  Composed of 4 young women (Susanne Fröhlich, Andrea Guttmann, Hannah Pape, and Heide Schwarz) who utilize upwards to 30 recorders (!) during the course of a program, QNG plays music composed by Bach, Purcell, and Hildegard von Bingen as well as pieces written for them by contemporary composers such as American Mary Ellen Childs, Polish composer Katarzyna Szwed, and Israeli Yoav Pasovsky.  They have issued 2 CDs, the latest being 2009's "In Vain." 

As always, the Library concert is free and open to the public.  For more information about the show, go to www.russelllibrary.org.  To find out more about QNG and hear excerpts of the group's music, go to www.quartetnewgeneration.de/de/#/168. 

Don't have much information about it but, at the same time as QNG, the winners of the 2011 Elizabeth Verveer Tishler Piano Competition will perform a short concert in The Russell House, 350 High Street.  This is usually a fun concert and the performers enjoy and deserve an audience.  It, too, is free and open to the public.


Joe Riff's Music, 404 Main Street, inaugurates its "Saturday Night In-Store Concert Series" this week (4/16) with 4 young "veterans" of the Connecticut music scene.

Guitarist Kevin O'Neil (pictured left) received his B.A. at the Hartt School of Music, earned his Master’s at Wesleyan University and completed his Ph.D at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He has studied, recorded and performed with Professor Anthony Braxton as well as performing with clarinetist David Krakauer and fellow Wesleyan graduate Steve Lehman (saxophone). He teaches guitar at the Community Music School and at Joe Riff's. 

Joining O'Neil will be pianist Craig Hartley, bassist Chris DeAngelis and drummer Ben Bilillo. Hartley, a graduate from the Manhattan School of Music in 2006 and also studied at the New School in New York City and at the Hartt School.  He's performed with many artists including guitarist Sinan Bakir, trombonist Slide Hampton, bassist Nat Reeves, and trumpeter Claudio Roditi. DeAngelis plays in various ensembles spanning genres from jazz to hip hop to rock.  Bilello, a native of Rhode Island who also attended the Hartt School, has worked with numerous artists, from the afore-mentioned Professor Braxton to saxophonist Jimmy Greene, trombonist Steve Davis and the Bill Lowe/Andy Jaffe Big Band. 

The concert starts at 6 pm. so that one can attend the Isaac Allen concert at 8 pm. in The Buttonwood (read here) or the Afro-Semitic Experience at 8:30 pm. in Congregation Adath Israel (read here) or any of the arts events in town