Piano and cello concert to benefit Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice
Pianist Veena Kulkarni will perform with cellist Nathan Jasinski in a benefit concert on Sunday. The concert will feature classical music and proceeds will benefit the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice. Photo: Matt Maizels
Kulkarni is a teacher at the Faber Institute, an international piano training center. She is also a University of Michigan alumna, with a Ph.D. in piano performance and pedagogy.
She has been a volunteer, and now board member, of Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice (ICPJ) for nearly three years. She first got involved with ICPJ in fall of 2007 when she volunteered for the food stamp challenge, where she had to live on $3 a day for a week. For her it was a concrete way of really understanding the issues surrounding hunger and public policy as she had explain to her friends why she was bringing daal and rice to the late summer BBQs.
For Kulkarni, she hopes this concert will allow her to bring together her two interests, “music and working for peace and justice.” She’ll be playing a number of technically difficult pieces as well as some of her favorites, so it is “really about the music.” Her hope is to have an “afternoon of good music and a change to get to know us ICPJ.”
As a board member she feels ICPJ has done great work looking for common ground on issues by discussing them in a comprehensive and thoughtful way. The goal is to “listen to both sides and provide average citizens a way to get involved.” For her, this concert will hopefully let people how great of an organization ICPJ is and get more people involved. Come join Kulkarni, Jasinski and ICPJ for the wonderful concert Sunday at 4 p.m. Zion Lutheran Church, 1501 W. Liberty St., will host the concert. Tickets are $12 in advance, $16 at the door; family is $30 advance/$35 door. Be a benefactor for $50 and you’ll be listed in our program book & receive Eero Trio’s debut CD!
You can order advanced tickets online at www.icpj.net, by phone at 734-663-1870, or pick them up in person at Nicola's Bookstore at 2513 Jackson Ave. Ann Arbor.
Acclaimed Ann Arbor storyteller La’Ron Williams will be the emcee for the concert.
Story by Rick Durance. Rick Durance is an intern at Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice and a student at the University of Michigan.