The Studio Series at the Long Island Violin Shop presents Rhina P. Espaillat, reading from her most recent book, Her Place in These Designs, among other work, and the music of Christopher Morrongiello performing on lute at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6.
Sculptor Alfred Moskowitz also will display his sculpture, “Seated Nude,” that graces the cover of Espaillat’s new book. The event is hosted by Annabelle Moseley at the Long Island Violin Shop.
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Espaillat has published poems, essays, short stories and translations in numerous magazines and more than 50 anthologies, in both English and her native Spanish, as well as three chapbooks and eight full-length books, including three in bilingual format.
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Her most recent are a poetry collection in English, Her Place in These Designs (Truman State University Press, Kirksville, 2008), and a bilingual collection of her short stories, El olor de la memoria (Ediciones CEDIBIL, Santo Domingo, D. R., 2007). Her honors include the Wilbur Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry, the Robert Frost “Tree at My Window” Award for Translation, the May Sarton Award, a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award from Salem State College, and several prizes from the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Culture.
Lutenist Morrongiello, a former British Marshall Scholar, is a graduate of the Mannes College of Music, the Royal College of Music, and the University of Oxford, where he earned a Ph.D. in musicology.
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As a recitalist, Christopher has performed to critical acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. In 1993 he was a prizewinner in the BBC Radio Two Young Musician of the Year Competition and in 1996 was awarded a Marco Fodella Foundation Scholarship for studies and research in Milan, Italy. In 2006, the Lute Society of America conferred upon him its first Patrick O’Brien LSA Seminar Lectureship.
He is a professor in music history at Hofstra University and teaches lute and related historical plucked instruments in his private studio in Long Island. He is a member of the Venere Lute Quartet, performs regularly with soprano Marcia Young, and directs the New York-based Bacheler Consort.
Moskowitz’s work has been entered into many juried shows both in Newburyport, Mass., and New York City and over the years has won several awards.
He taught Industrial Arts in the junior high schools in New York City for 30 years and began to sculpt after leaving teaching. He was one of the founders of the Alliance of Queens Artists and served on the Board of Directors for several years until he moved to Newburyport, MA in 1990.
He ran a sculpture workshop at the Newburyport Art Association for 13 years and was honored in 2005 by the NAA as a lifetime member.
