(HUDSON, N.Y,) – Violinist/violist Helena Baillie will perform works by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, accompanied by pianist Tanya Gabrielian, at the Hudson Opera House on Saturday, October 12, 2013, at 8pm.

Helena Baillie demonstrates a rare ease on both violin and viola, and she frequently switches between the two in recital. The London-born Baillie is a prizewinner in international competitions including the Munich ARD, Banff and Tertis. Baillie has performed throughout Europe and the United States, where her performances are regularly broadcast on Performance Today for American Public Radio.

Baillie has collaborated in chamber music with such eminent musicians as Pinchas Zukerman, Midori, the Tokyo Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio. Her love and prowess of chamber music has taken her to the La Jolla Summerfest, Tucson Winter Chamber Festival, and the Kronberg Festival in Frankfurt, among others. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, and the Sydney Opera House.

Baillie is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied violin with Arnold Steinhardt and viola with Roberto Diaz. Isaac Stern, Felix Galimir, and Leon Fleisher guided her in chamber music, and she spent a year in Berlin studying with the eminent violist Wilfried Strehle. Baillie’s instruments are both made by Brooklyn-based luthier Sam Zygmuntowicz.

The London Times referred to pianist Tanya Gabrielian as “a pianist of powerful physical and imaginative muscle.” Gabrielian’s recent performances include Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, Sydney Opera House, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, Edinburgh International Festival, Salle Cortot in Paris, and a return recital engagement at Wigmore Hall in London.

Gabrielian rose to international acclaim with first prizes in the Scottish International Piano Competition, and the Aram Khachaturyan International Piano Competition. She is also a laureate of the Sydney International Piano Competition, and the Bosendorfer International Piano Competition. Her Wigmore Hall debut, as winner of the coveted Wigmore Prize awarded by the Royal Academy of Music, was reviewed as “revelatory, a feast of romantic pianism which held us enthralled.”

Tickets for the evening  are available in advance: $13 for HOH members and $16 for nonmembers, and on the day of the performance, $15 for HOH members and $18 for nonmembers.

The Hudson Opera House offers a year-round schedule of arts and cultural programming in the former Hudson City Hall, which houses New York State’s oldest surviving theatre. Since opening the first restored “West” room in December 1997, five additional rooms on the first floor have been rehabilitated, within which thousands of cultural and educational programs have been presented, 1025 in the last year alone. The Hudson Opera House provides free or low-cost cultural offerings every week of the year. Ongoing programs include concerts, readings, lectures, exhibitions, theatre and dance presentations, after-school programs, workshops, classes and community arts events like the annual Winter Walk on Warren Street produced by the Hudson Opera House.