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Oregon Mozart Players enters the most wonderful time of the year with our annual, candlelit holiday concert, aptly titled Glow, featuring Interim Artistic Director Daniel Cho on the podium and OMP cellist Eric Alterman as soloist for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Cello Concerto in A major. The folk-inspired simplicity of music by English composers Ralph Vaughan-Williams and Gustav Holst will bring a smile to your face and Christmas-themed works by Francesco Manfridini and Gregor James Werner will warm your heart. OMP also celebrates the talents of local artists with a piece by Oregon-based composer Damien Geter. We invite you to the hearth of music and community with a performance meant to evoke images of the holiday season in the countryside, with sounds of rich strings and sparkling harpsichord. 

Program

Ralph Vaughn-Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves

C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto in A Major, Wq. 172 Featuring Eric Alterman

Damien Geter: Buh-roke

Francesco Manfridini: Concerto Grosso No. 3 in C Major “Christmas Concerto”

Gregor James Werner: Christmas Pastorale

Gustav Holst: St. Paul Suite

Cellist Eric Schatz Alterman has led a varied musical life that has spanned continents and roles as a chamber musician, orchestral performer, and soloist. Residing in Rio de Janeiro, he performed for 5 years as a section cellist and assistant principal in the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira. Currently based in Oregon as cellist of the Delgani String Quartet, considered by Oregon Arts Watch "the state's finest chamber ensemble," he has appeared in performances and concert series throughout the state and beyond, including appearances at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Prague's Charles University. Alterman serves as Assistant Principal Cellist of the Eugene Symphony and member of the Oregon Mozart Players, and has performed with the Oregon Bach Festival, Britt Festival Orchestra, Chamber Music Amici, and the Shedd Institute Microphilharmonic. His recitals have been featured at the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, the Rio de Janeiro International Cello Encounter, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. 

Alterman grew up in New York City, where he began music studies at a young age at the Mannes College of Music. Going on to receive Bachelors and Masters degrees at Brandeis University and Boston University, he studied cello with former and current Lydian Quartet members, Rhonda Rider and Joshua Gordon, and the late Vermeer Quartet cellist, Marc Johnson. Eric has consistently explored and pursued other genres of music, since his college days performing, arranging, and composing in an Arabic music ensemble. In Rio, he was a frequent performer of bossa nova at Copacabana’s famed music bar, Bip Bip.