Phillip Martorella- Gallery Opening and Book Signing

August 23, 2018

Phillip Martorella- Gallery Opening and Book Signing

CCA

August 23, 2018 - August 23, 2018

6:30pm – 8:30pm

CCA

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Phillip Martorella cherished in our artistic community for continuously bringing quality music education and performance throughout Rhode Island. This multi-talented Musician will be hosting his fist gallery opening at the Courthouse in addition this evening is a Book signing for his newly released book: A Controversial Approach To Music Theory and Musical Scansion
 
Born in 1955 in Brooklyn, N.Y., Philip Martorella studied piano with Avraham Stemklar, Nadia Reisenberg, Eugenia Hyman, Sascha Gorodnitski and Adele Marcus and piano accompanying studies with Samuel Sanders. He currently serves as Minister of Music at First Evangelical Lutheran Church, East Greenwich, Rhode Island and organist at Temple Beth-El, Providence, Rhode Island. He formerly served on the piano faculty at St. George’s School in Middletown, Newport.
 
Winner of the Huntington Symphony Concerto Competition, Long Island, Mr. Martorella has performed frequently with area symphony orchestras, often appearing with his brother, Stephen, as a duo-piano team.
 
He has also appeared in solo and chamber music recitals at Rhode Island College, the University of Rhode Island, the Music Mansion, Pepsi Forum, at Weill Hall and the Bruno Walter Recital Hall of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center in New York City. ​​​