SUMMERTIME WITH GERSHWIN | Paul Merkelo
Sat, Jun 28
|Prager Family Center for the Arts
Gabriela Montero | piano The living is easy on a night of Gershwin, with trumpet virtuoso Paul Merkelo and a Rhapsody in Blue "Merkelo's virtuosity and ease of expressive and dynamic versatility is simply amazing." Classical Music Sentinel
Time & Place
Jun 28, 2025, 7:30 PM
Prager Family Center for the Arts, 17 S Washington St, Easton, MD 21601, USA
About the Artists
Paul Merkelo is a JUNO-nominated artist with six solo recordings for the SONY and NAXOS labels. He has been the solo trumpeter with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal since 1995 and is the first soloist chosen to record a feature album. He has also served as a guest principal trumpeter with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Merkelo was appointed the Canadian musical ambassador to China for the inauguration of the Montreal Park in Shanghai and as a soloist with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in a national telecast. Merkelo made his New York debut at the Lincoln Center with the New World Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas in 1998. He has collaborated with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel, Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, and Valery Gergiev.
Merkelo’s first solo recording, "A Simple Song," was ranked #1 on Quebec’s classical…
Tickets
Paul Merkelo | trumpet
Enjoy a complimentary, pre-concert toast with this ticket, from 7pm.
$150.00
+$16.50 MDS + TCAT
+$4.16 ticket service fee
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