WOODBURY — The Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Music Foundation welcomes Molly Carr (Viola) and Yuval Shapira (Piano) to Woodbury, on Sunday, November 1 at the First Congregational Church, 214 Main Street South, Woodbury, at 3 p.m. The duet will perform a program entitled Stolen Gems, featuring works by Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Florence Price and Amy Beach.

Hailed as “one of the most interesting interpreters of the viola today” (Codalario Spain), violist Molly Carr enjoys a diverse musical career as recitalist, chamber musician, educator and artistic director. Her “intoxicating” (New York Times) and “ravishing” (STRAD) performances have taken her across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, as well as on CNN, National Public Radio, and BBC World News. Named by the Sandi Klein Show as one of America’s leading “Creative Women,” she was honored in 2018 at the United Nations and awarded the Pro Musicis International Father Eugène Merlet Award for Community Service for her work as the Founding Director for the nonprofit Project: Music Heals Us. Ms. Carr is also the recipient of international performance prizes and awards from the Primrose International Viola Competition, Chamber Music America, Davidson Institute, Virtu Foundation, and Music Academy of the West Alumni Enterprise Awards, among many others.

Yuval Shapira is a pianist, music theorist and composer whose work highlights the interrelation of performance and analysis. His analytical work investigates the interplay of tonal structure and expression in the music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially in Bach and Chopin. Shapira serves on the music theory faculty at the Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music. He has composed and arranged music for theater, with productions receiving awards and recognition in Israel. His principal teachers include Richard Goode, and Arie Vardi.

Tickets are available online for $35 or at the door for $40 and can be purchased at www.wbcmusicfoundation.org.