Ashmont Hill concert to feature Dot musicians

Pianist Phuong Nghi Pham will be a featured performer at the June 27 Rising Stars benefit performance in Ashmont Hill.Pianist Phuong Nghi Pham will be a featured performer at the June 27 Rising Stars benefit performance in Ashmont Hill.
Ashmont Hill Chamber Music will be feature two young musicians from Dorchester at a benefit concert set for Saturday, June 27. Cellist Tony Rymer and pianist Phuong-Nghi Pham, both Dorchester natives, will performing at the evening event at a private home on Ocean Street.

“At Ashmont Hill, I want to present the highest caliber of chamber music we can, really raise the bar of the performances to truly world class,” said Mary Beth Alger, Ashmont Hill’s artistic director. “Here, we have local, young musicians of extreme quality in under-represented groups. It was such a great concept that we should use it as an opportunity to both raise funds as well as increase the visibility of Ashmont Hill.”

Tony Rymer, 25, who has been playing the cello since the age of five, is currently a Masters student at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin.

Phuong-Nghi Pham, who just finished her first year of undergraduate at Amherst College as QuestBridge National College Match Recipient and a Jack Kent Cooke College Scholar, began taking piano lessons at the age of 5 in Vietnam and moved to the US with her parents in 2004. Like Rymer, Pham appeared on From the Top, appearing at Jordan Hall in 2010 and at Calderwood Hall in 2014. A two-time prizewinner of the Fidelity Investments Young Artists Competition, she performed with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in 2011 and 2012.

The concert, which will last an hour and includes Bach and Brahms, among others, will be held at the home of Nancy Anderson, The benefit will run from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and tickets ($100) can be purchased on Ashmont Hill Chamber Music’s website, ahchambermusic.org.


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