
SUMMERTIME WITH GERSHWIN | Paul Merkelo
Sat, Jun 28
|The Ebenezer Theater
The living is easy on a night of Gershwin, with trumpet virtuoso Paul Merkelo and a Rhapsody in Blue. PFCA Artist-in-Residence Gabriela Montero on piano. "Merkelo's virtuosity and ease of expressive and dynamic versatility is simply amazing." Classical Music Sentinel


Time & Location
Jun 28, 2025, 7:30 PM
The Ebenezer Theater, 17 S Washington St, Easton, MD 21601, USA
About the event
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.
This concert is part of the Gabriela Montero at Prager concert series.