No concerts are scheduled at this time.
Pro-Series Concerts
Since 2002 the Isle La Motte Preservation Trust has held evening classical concerts (the Pro-Series) in the renovated Horse and Carriage Barn at Fisk Farm. Concert proceeds support the work of the Isle La Motte Preservation Trust (ILMPT)*, which owns and manages two nature and fossil preserves on Isle La Motte. With the glorious renovation by ILMPT of an old dairy barn (now the “Conservation Barn”) on the 83 acre Goodsell Ridge Preserve – the 2019 Pro-Series concerts will be held in the “newly restored barn at the preserve which is located at
239 Quarry Road / Isle La Motte / Vermont / 05463
ADMISSION IS $25. FOR RESERVATIONS EMAIL INFO@ilmpt.org
July 20, 2019 – 7:30 pm
Natalie Pang, piano
Joseph Hagen, viola
On July 20 the gifted pianist Natalie Pang will perform with a brilliant violist, Joe Hagen. Audiences may recall Natalie years ago at the age of ten and again at twelve when at Fisk Farm with her gifted sister, she virtually knocked us out of our seats with her musical virtuosity. This young prodigy won first prize at the Quebec Provincial Final of the Canadian Music Competition when she was six years old. Since then, she has won top awards at numerous competitions including First Prizes at the National Finals of the Canadian Music Competition at the Crescendo International Music Competition, and was recipient of the McGill Conservatory’s Vera Black Scholarship. Small wonder that, as a senior at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, she is still a shining star currently studying with Alexander Kobrin. Natalie has performed around Canada and the United States, including orchestral performances and solo recitals in Montreal, Weill Recital Hall in New York, the Pro-Series Concerts for the Isle La Motte Preservation Trust in Vermont, and at venues in Florida for the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival and Miami Music Festival. She was also featured on NPR at the classical music station WUSF 89.7.
Joe Hagen is a violist from Skaneateles, NY where he met his teacher Phillip Ying (founder of the Ying Quartet) at the world-famous Skaneateles Festival. Joe Hagen has recently graduated from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where he received degrees in Viola Performance and Audio Engineering. During his studies, he was the Principal Violist of the Eastman Philharmonia as well as an active soloist and chamber musician. Joe has combined his technical and musical skills to write his own music for concert performance and Independent Films. He will be joining the Empire Film and Media Ensemble as Music Director in Fall 2019.
August 24, 2019 – 7:30 pm
Natalie Pang, piano
Joseph Hagen, viola
Philippe Prud’homme is a Canadian pianist and composer, born September 15, 1991 in Saint-Jérôme. He works mainly in the piano privately with Gilles Manny. In 2011, he finished with the highest distinction, a Masters in Performance at the University of Montreal, in the class of Dang Thai Son. As a soloist, he has won two first prizes at the Canadian Music Competition (2009, 2013), and a first prize at the Quebec Contemporary Music Society (2012). An active chamber musician, he also got the first prize in chamber music at the Canadian Music Competition (2013) and the Classical Music Festival of Pierre-De Saurel (2013). Having started his musical training at the age of 12, he was admitted four years later at exceptional basis BA (without having completed high school). Since then, Philippe has occurred many times in recitals and has performed as soloist with many ensembles including the Orchestre de la Francophonie and I Musici de Montreal. He has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Jean-François Rivest, Yuli Turovsky and Jean-Philippe Tremblay.
Thomas Chartré began studying cello at the age of 3. Since then he has been been a two-time recipient of a Sylva Gelver Music Foundation Award in 2013 and 2014 and has been called a “young Montreal phenomenon.” He has won scholarships including from the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, the Aspen Music Festival and School and the New England Conservatory in Boston. He has performed in concert as a solist at the Kronberg Academy’s cello festival in Germany and at Stanford University with its ensenble in residence and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.
