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Flute & Piano Duo Linda M. Bento-Rei and Vytas J. Baksys Live at St. Boniface

Music at St. Boniface proudly presents a truly outstanding concert featuring Flute & Piano Duo Linda M. Bento-Rei and Vytas J. Baksys performing rarely heard and technically challenging works by Mike Mower, CPE Bach, Joseph Jongen and Peter Schickele.   

Pianist Vytas J. Baksys is an active free-lance collaborator performing a variety of recitals, competitions, and other functions of various styles and genres throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Since 1989 he has been the faculty pianist with the Fellowship Conducting Program at Tanglewood, a frequent keyboardist with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras, and works with other area ensembles such as the Concord Chamber Music Society, The Rivers School Conservatory, Boston Musica Viva, Boston Secession, and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Of Lithuanian descent, Vytas is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and State University of New York at Stony Brook. His principal teachers include Angel Ramon Rivera, Victor Rosenbaum, and Gilbert Kalish. He has participated in recordings for RCA, CRI, Golden Crest, Sony Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, Warner Brothers, Nonsuch, Reference Recordings, and BSO Classics labels.

 

Flutist Linda M. Bento-Rei received a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance, cum laude, from the Boston Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music.  Linda has performed with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Festival Ballet Orchestra of Rhode Island, the Worcester Symphony Orchestra, the Lexington Symphony, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the Key West Symphony Orchestra. She recently released her first CD entitled “The Jongen Project, which includes the works of Joseph Jongen for flute and mixed ensembles recorded at the Fraser Recording Studio, WGBH, Boston, MA.  Orchestra. The CD is exclusively available online from www.lindabento-rei.com 

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