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The Friends of Music 2008-09 Concert Series promises to be outstanding! With performers from all across the United States and even Canada, audiences have an exciting season ahead. All concerts are held at: |
| CALVARY ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH 518 Fir St. Brookings, OR 97415 Get a Google Map or a MapQuest Map |
Adult season tickets are available for $60 (individual) or $100 (couple). Student (18 and under) season tickets are only $10 when purchased in conjunction with an adult season ticket. Single performance tickets are $15 for adults and $2 for students and are available at the door for each concert. Tickets are available at Mory's and Words and Pictures. To order season tickets, mail a check or money order to: |
| FRIENDS OF MUSIC P. O. BOX 7893 BROOKINGS, OR 97415 |
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2008-09 CONCERT SERIES9/14 - Linda Wang - 10/19 - Christy Dolan - 11/30 - Southern Oregon Repertory Singers |
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Linda Wang, violin Linda Wang is among the premier violinists of her generation, consistently praised for her artistry, warm, singing tone and charismatic performances. Since her debut with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic at the age of nine, Linda Wang has performed concerti throughout the United States with orchestras in California, Arizona, Texas, Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, South Carolina, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia and West Virginia collaborating with such conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Jorge Mester, JoAnn Falletta, Grant Cooper, Chistian Tiemeyer, Peter Jaffe, Daryll One, Allen Scott, Steve Lipsett, Stephen Gunzenhauser. In recital she has performed in over 40 states and abroad her concerto performances include the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, Paris Sinfonietta, Germany's Sächsische Kammerphilharmonie Dresden and Philharmonisches Orchester des Vogtland and The Czech Republic's Southern Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom she toured. In Asia, her appearances have included a concerto debut in Taipei this season and enthusiastically received performances with the Phillipines Philharmonic Orchestra. Domestic and international audiences have seen Linda Wang's televised performances on PBS, Arts and Entertainment, Germany's ZDF and Japan's NHK, while radio broadcasts include NPR's "Performance Today, WQXR (New York City), WFMT (Chicago), KMozart and KKGO (Los Angeles), MDR (Germany), Leipzig Rundfunk and Deutschland Radio, Berlin. First prizes include the International Markneukirchen Instrumental Competition in Germany, the National Federation of Music Club’s Young Artists Auditions, the International Kingsville Competition, an award at the International Geneva Music Competition (CIEM), and the Waldo Mayo Award honoring New York’s best young performer. A dedicated teacher herself, Linda Wang is currently Assistant Professor of Violin at University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, and has previously taught at University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music. Linda Wang currently performs on a 1767 J. B. Guadagnini. |
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Christy Dolan, piano Christy Dolan has performed solo concerts since the age of thirteen when she was featured at the Great Lakes Naval Station in Chicago. As a soloist with symphony orchestras, Christy has performed piano concertos by Brahms, Gershwin, Grieg, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Saint-Saens, and Rimsky-Korsakoff in concert halls on the west coast and throughout the mid-west. Critics have labeled her as "a pianist with a flair for the dramatic." |  |
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Southern Oregon Repertory Singers The Southern Oregon Repertory Singers have performed to acclaim throughout the Northwest since 1986. In addition to an annual subscription concert series, the forty-two voice ensemble regularly performs with many of southern Oregon's leading musical organizations, including the Northwest Bach Ensemble, and Jefferson Baroque Ensemble. The ensemble frequently collaborates with other leading Rogue Valley arts organizations and its high standard of atristry has bgeen regionally recognized with multiple invitations to perform at conferences for the American Guild of Organists. Commissioned works by SORS Composer-In-Residence, Craig Kingsbury,, were broadcast live to an estimated one million households nationally and internationally and praised by West Coast Live host Sedge Thompson as "beautiful music, beautiful singing." The SORS subscription concert series has established several Rogue Valley musical traditions: premiers of works commissioned for the group, the annual Mozart & More concert, and the Songs of Shakespeare concert performed under the stars at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Elizabethan Theatre. | |
Debussy String Quartet The Debussy Quartet has built a reputation graced with international acclaim through their many recordings and live performances. From the Salle Moliere in Lyon, France, to the Kaufman Concert Hall at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, the quartet has enlivened the chamber music world with performances of distinction: lush with detail and atmosphere, stylish, technically exciting, and musically thoughtful. Based in Lyon, France, and honored as Winners of the Evian International String Quartet Competition, the quartet performs some 80 concerts a year in Europe, Asia, and North America. Their recent U.S. tours have included concerts in Washington, DC, New York, San Diego, St. Louis, Austin, Detroit, Palm Beach and many other communities from coast to coast. They have built a special connection to the audiences at the Round Top Festival in Round Top, Texas, where they have continued their collaboration with distinguished American pianist James Dick. The group's expansive repertoire is enhanced by their special commitment to bring distinguished works of French composers to the stage and the recording studio. Through their particular acclaim for their interpretations of the Debussy and Ravel quartets, they have introduced audiences to other French works such as those of Lalo, Lekeu, and the late romantic composer Ermend Bonnal. Currently touring the quartets of Shostakovitch, all of which they have recorded for the Arion label, they also offer works of Janacek, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and more. Noted for their collaborative performances both with James Dick and with French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, the artists together offer the major piano quintet repertoire on tour as well. |
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Minneapolis Guitar Quartet With the passion, style, and musical sophistication borrowing from the best chamber music and string quartet traditions, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet has successfully made its case as one of the world's leading guitar ensembles since its founding in 1986. "Flawless, musical and witty" (Classical Guitar Magazine, England), the MGQ has performed throughout the United States both in recital and concerto appearances, balancing a dizzying array of first-rate repertoire ranging from Renaissance and Baroque to Spanish, Latin American, and Romantic, to highly imaginative existing and commissioned contemporary works. Cutting-edge composer/performer Daniel Bernard Roumain, one of more than 20 composers commissioned by the MGQ, calls the group "more than a guitar quartet, more than superb musicians, and more than a great chamber group. They are ambassadors of sound, style, and substance." The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet tours regularly throughout the United States in works with full orchestra such as Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto Andaluz and Ian Krouse's Cantiga Variations; and with string orchestra in David Hahn's Concerto alla Barocco and a new arrangement of Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto in C. Concerto appearances include the Austin Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Britt Festival Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra and the Columbus (GA) Symphony, among others. In recital, the MGQ appears in such cities as Seattle, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Omaha, and Williamstown (MA). Other highlights include Princeton University, the Il Encuentro Internacional de Guitarra at the National Arts Center in Mexico City, the Omni Foundation Dynamite Guitar series in San Francisco, the Stetson International Guitar Workshop in Florida, and the Guitar Foundation of America Festival. Committed educators as well as performers, members of the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet (Joseph Hagedorn, Jeff Lambert, O. Nicholas Raths, and Jeffrey Thygeson) often appear to teach and present workshops at festivals and universities throughout the United States. The cultural accessibility of the guitar makes it a natural for the MGQ's educational and outreach programs like its two popular versions of "Guitar Talk" for ages 5-12 and 13 through adult. |
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Anderson & Roe Piano Duo Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe have been described as "Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers transposed from the dance floor to the keyboard" (The Southampton Press). Together they bring a fresh and visionary approach to the concert stage, dazzling audiences with their adrenalized performances, inventive programming, original compositions, and refined artistry. They have performed as a four-hand and two-piano team across North America and presented innovative concerts in nearly every New York City venue imaginable: from Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Steinway Hall, to children's hospitals, HIV/AIDS homes, and cancer centers. The duo has appeared on MTV's Total Request Live and NPR's From the Top, and they released their debut album, "Reimagine," in 2008. Greg and Elizabeth both received their bachelor and master's degrees from The Juilliard School, where they left an indelible impression. The duo was featured on several prominent Juilliard events; they jointly presented for members of the United Nations, performed repeatedly for the board of directors and donors of the school, and replaced John Williams as composers on Juilliard's "Cinema Serenades" concert. Additionally, the two directed the groundbreaking project "Life Between the Keys," a concert that involved the entire Juilliard Piano Class of 2004. A live performance by the Anderson & Roe piano duo is included on the Sounds of Juilliard CD celebrating the school's centennial year. |
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