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Estes Park Winter Concerts at the Stanley
Hotel. Unless otherwise indicated, all concerts are from 2:00-3:15;
Tickets available at the door. $5.00 for adults, no charge for students and children.
The Stanley
Hotel extends a 15% discount toward lunch or dinner in the Cascade Room to all
Music Festival attendees on the day of the concert.
Program Information
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April
27, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel Music Room
Margaret Patterson, piano
Sponsored by:
Greater Allenspark Community Alliance
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Winter Series Finale!
The Estes Park Music Festival
is pleased to present the extraordinary piano of Margaret
Patterson as the finale to the Winter Series at the Stanley
Hotel.
Margaret Patterson is a frequent presenter at the Stanley
Hotel, in Colorado and in the Eastern United States. Before
moving to Allenspark, she actively performed in the
DC/Bethesda Maryland area and in other east coast cities.
She has a varied career as a soloist accompanist, chamber
musician and teacher. Patterson’s diverse music background
includes training at the National Music Camp at Interlochen,
undergraduate studies in piano performance at the Peabody
Conservatory in Baltimore and the College of Notre Dame. She
also served as one of the pianists with the New England
Philharmonic and the Longy Chamber Orchestra.
In 2004, Patterson was a prize winner in the Simone Belsky
Piano Competition for pianists over the age of 30 committed
to re-establishing a performing career. Margaret has been
performing and teaching for over twenty years and is an
adjunct faculty at Rocky Ridge Music Centre. . She is
currently pursuing a graduate degree in piano performance at
the University of Colorado-Boulder and studies with David
Korevaar. Margie and her husband Glenn also perform as
Ragrats, a piano-string bass duo performing Ragtime music.
Please join the Music Festival for this special end of the
season program featuring the Schubert Sonata in B-flat
Major, D.960 and Ravel Miroirs.
Mark your Calendars!
The Sounds of Summer with spectacular music by the Colorado
Music Festival will begin on Monday, June 30. All three
indoor concerts this summer will be held in the historic,
and acoustically-ideal Concert Hall at the Stanley Hotel.
The traditional free outdoor Patriotic/Pop Concert will be
July 7th at Performance Park in down town Estes. Indoor
concerts begin at 7:30 PM. Patriotic concert begins at 7:00
PM.
For further information and details on the summer concert
series, contact the Estes Park Music Festival business
office at 970-586-9519 or visit our up to date web page:
estesparkmusicfestival.org.
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April
20, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel MacGregor Room
Peggy Lyon Duo: Piano and Cello
Sponsored by:
Ken and Marsha Hobert, Hobert Ltd.
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Please join us as we welcome back the accomplished Peggy
Lyon duo with Peggy Lyon on piano and James Todd on cello.
Peggy Lyon is a concert pianist whose playing has been
described as "radiating beauty and an inner intensity of
feeling which is simply overwhelming". She has performed
solo recitals in Austria, Peru, and major cities in the
western United States. Peggy also has given world premieres
of works by David Baker, Eugene Kurz and Istvan Hornyak.
Lyon has also performed concertos with orchestras in Los
Angeles, Las Vegas, in Pullman, Washington, and in Denver,
Golden, and Evergreen, Colorado. Peggy Lyon has recorded
nine solo CD’s.
Peggy studied piano and voice at the Oberlin College
Conservatory of Music and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She
has a Masters in piano performance from Washington State
University and a Masters in voice performance from the
University of Denver.
Lyon’s award-winning specialty is giving concerts with
commentary about the music and the composers. Her talks are
informative and humorous, and they are unique for including
outrageous pronouncements of critics.
James Todd serves as principal cellist with the Arapahoe
Philharmonic in Denver. Todd performs with many area music
ensembles and productions, and has appeared as guest solo
artist with the Arapahoe Philharmonic, the Denver Symphony,
the Aurora Symphony and the Metropolitan State Symphony.
Jim has performed in concert with many touring shows as a
professional free-lance musician and is in demand as a
studio musician, having performed on numerous artists’
albums. He maintains an active schedule as a teacher, and
has served as guest clinician/instructor at numerous music
education conferences. Todd has recorded a solo CD of his
own compositions.
The Duo will perform J. S. Bach’s Sonata for cello and piano
in G major, Sergei Rachmaninov’s Sonata for cello and piano
and Astor Piazzolla’s “Le Grand Tango”. All great pieces for
a wonderful afternoon of well known classics.
This concert is sponsored by Ken & Marsha Hobert, Hobert
Ltd.
The Winter Season Finale on April 27th will feature Margaret
Patterson on piano, sponsored by Greater Allenspark
Community Alliance.
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April 6, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel MacGregor Room
Spring Recital with violin students
of Barbara Barber
Sponsored by:
Madison & Marty Casey
The violin students
of Barbara Barber from Estes Park and Boulder will
perform a variety of solo
and ensemble pieces . They will be assisted by
pianist Yuan-Jen Cheng. The program will include the
music of Bach, Beethoven, de Beriot, Fowler,
Gabriel-Marie, Lalo, Joanne Martin, Michael McLean,
Mozart, Schumann, Seitz and Shinichi Suzuki. The
students from Estes Park are Ted Dumont,
Sophia Holdorf and Douglas Klink. From Boulder are
students Annie Lister, Forrest McKinney,
Allison Rickel, Hope Valentine and Lily Valentine.
Several parents of the students will also join
the group for ensemble pieces at the conclusion of
the concert.
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March
30, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel MacGregor Room
Dr. Gloria Chang & Dr. So Young Lee, pianists
Solo and Four Hands Piano
Sponsored by:
Bob & Judy Taphorn
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Piano At Its Best! An Extraordinary Afternoon with Gloria Chuang and
guest pianist So Young Lee.
The Estes Park Music Festival is honored to welcome for their first
appearance with the Stanley Winter Series, Gloria Chuang and guest
pianist So Young Lee.
Dr.Gloria Chuang is a third generation performer/teacher of piano in her
family. At age 11, she won the National Young Keyboard Artist
Competition of Taiwan. Her success led to her United States debut,
soloing with the San Francisco Youth Symphony. Gloria performs
extensively as a soloist and collaborative pianist throughout the
country. Her solo and collaborative venues have included Bruno Walter’s
Auditorium, Alice Tully Hall, Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie, University
campuses and other venues in the United States and Asia. As an
ambassador of International Relations through music, Dr. Chuang
performed, lectured, and administered master classes to the students in
Tamkang, Fu-Shin Fine Arts School, the Institute of the Arts of Taiwan
and the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. Her solo program,
East Meets West, the Confluence of Two Worlds has received special
recognitions at the National Keyboard Pedagogue and MTNA conventions.
Gloria Chuang holds a Bachelors of Music and a Masters of Music Arts
from the Juilliard School in New York City. She then received her Doctor
of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor in 1993, where she was a recipient of the Regents Scholarship.
Chuang is assistant professor of piano at Winona State University in
Winona, Minnesota,where she teaches piano and assists in collaborative
recitals. Her third solo CD will be released in September of 2008.
Dr. So Young Lee, pianist, received her Doctorate in Musical Arts in
Piano Performance from the University of California, Santa Barbara. So
Young was recently appointed Music Director of Rocky Ridge Music Center
in Estes Park, CO. She will continue to serve as Artistic Director of
Notes at 9,000: Emerging Artist Series at Winter Park. Lee is involved
with a number of innovative chamber music and dance projects including a
Bach2Brazil chamber ballet in collaboration with choreographer Viki
Psihoyos, a newly commissioned chamber opera by composer/librettist
Daniel Felsenfeld titled The Bloody Chamber based on the fairytale of
the Bluebeard’s Castle, and a multi-disc recording project of Schumann’s
piano works with pianist Sergio Gallo. She has held director positions
at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory Adult Education/Preparatory
Department, Millikin University Preparatory Division and the Boulder
Arts Academy/Boulder Ballet. So Young served on the music faculty at
Millikin, State University of New York, Fredonia and most recently,
served as visiting Piano Pedagogy faculty at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. Dr. Lee attended the University of Birmingham and the
Birmingham School of Music in England, the University of Southern
California and the University of California at Santa Barbara on a full
music fellowship. So Young is equally at home as a performing artist,
teacher, and arts producer.
Sunday afternoon’s program will feature Schuman, Ravel, Camille
Saint-Saëns, and Ginastera.
Chuang and Lee will join together four hands, one piano, for Ravel’s Ma
mere l’Oye (Mother Goose Suite) and Le Carnaval Des Animaux (Carnival of
the Animals).
April 6 will feature Barbara Barber violin students, sponsored by
Madison and Marty Casey. There will be no concert on April 13.
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March 16, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel MacGregor Room
Loretta Thompson and the Heritage Band
Celtic Music
Sponsored by:
The UPS Store
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Meet Loretta Thompson and Her Celtic Music!
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, on Sunday, March 16, the Music
Festival will welcome back the Consummate Entertainers, Loretta Thompson
and the Heritage Band. Loretta is a high-spirited musician and singer
whose versatile performances captivate audiences everywhere. Whether
fiddling or singing, Loretta is quite at home entertaining a crowd. She
uses a variety of instruments such as violin, guitar, whistles, and more
to complement the music styles. The warm quality and essence of
Loretta’s radiant voice easily connects an Irish, Scottish, or American
song with the homeland roots. She possesses that unique ability to speak
directly to the heart, delighting listeners of all ages. Loretta’s music
and entertainment are unsurpassed and distinctively genuine.
Loretta joins other first-class professional musicians to become Loretta
Thompson and the Heritage Band, a powerful entertainment package that
cannot be beat! Thompson, lead vocalist and fiddler, is joined by
excellent multi-faceted musicians on guitar, bass, and drums. All have
broad music backgrounds in many styles. Blending vocal and instrumental
harmonies, together this top show band creates one of the most exciting
Celtic and Variety sounds heard anywhere.
Join us for a celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, with unforgettable
melodies and toe-tapping jigs and reels. Loretta and her band will move
your spirit to dance as you are sweep away on a fascinating journey to
the old country.
There will be no Easter concert on March 23. Gloria Chuang and So Young
Lee will perform Four Hands Piano on March 30. Join Gloria and So Young
for an extraordinary afternoon of classical four hands piano. Concert
sponsored by bob and Judy Taphorn
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February
24, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel
Dr. Andrew Cooperstock, Piano
Ravel and Copland
Sponsored by:
TK Smith & Connie Holden
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Heralded as a “technically impeccable and
musically profound” pianist, Andrew Cooperstock performs widely as
soloist and chamber musician and has appeared throughout five continents
and in most of the fifty states. Winner of the National Federation of
Music Clubs Artist Competition and the New Orleans International Piano
Competition, he has performed at New York’s Alice Tully, Merkin, and
Weill concert halls, and at the United Nations, as well as at the
Chautauqua and Round Top international music festivals, the Australian
Festival of Chamber Music, and in such global centers as Chicago,
Philadelphia, Detroit, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Baltimore, London,
Hamburg, Nice, the Hague, Riga, Canberra, Lima, Kiev, Beijing, Seoul,
Sapporo, and Vladivostok.
Sought after as a chamber musician, Cooperstock has performed with the
Takács Quartet, the Ying Quartet, the Colorado Chamber Players, and is a
founding member of Trio Contraste, which specializes in commissioning
and performing contemporary music for piano, violin, and clarinet. With
violinist William Terwilliger, as the award-winning Opus Two, he has
recorded the complete works for piano and violin by Copland and
performed them worldwide. With cellist Andres Diaz, Opus Two has also
recorded chamber music by Lowell Liebermann (Albany Records) and Paul
Schoenfield (Azica Records). A graduate of the Juilliard School and the
Cincinnati and Peabody Conservatories, he studied with Abbey Simon,
David Bar-Illan, and Walter Hautzig, as well as with collaborative
pianist Samuel Sanders. Dr. Andrew Cooperstock chairs the keyboard
department at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Please join us as we welcome back one of our favorites, Andrew
Cooperstock. Dr. Cooperstock will perform Ravel’s Miroirs (1905) and
Sonatine (1905). After a brief pause, Aaron Copland’s Night Thoughts
(Homage to Ives) (1972 and El Salón Mexico (1939/1941 will complete the
afternoons program.
On March 2nd, due a program change, the Music Festival is pleased to
welcome a new artist to the series. Acclaimed Celtic guitarist Jerry
Barlow will perform his expressive arrangements of lively jigs, spirited
reels and haunting beautiful airs. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Month with
Celtic music to soothe the soul, warm the heart and lift the spirit.
This
concert is sponsored by TK Smith and Connie Holden.
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March
2, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel
Jerry Barlow, Celtic Guitar
Celtic Music
Sponsored by:
Bessie Chittwood
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Acclaimed Celtic guitarist Jerry Barlow will perform for
the Estes Park Winter Concert Series at the Stanley Hotel, Sunday, March
2nd at 2:00 P.M. Barlow’s expressive arrangements of lively jigs,
spirited reels and hauntingly beautiful airs have been described as
music to soothe the soul, warm the heart, and lift the spirit.
Jerry Barlow is a warm accessible performer and storyteller. His unique
and skillfully delivered repertoire incorporates favorite traditional
pieces and his own compositions. For centuries, Celtic melodies have
been played primarily on the harp, flute, pennywhistle, and fiddle. More
recently, innovative guitarists have developed methods of playing this
enchanting music utilizing alternate tunings combined with fingerstyle
techniques. In concert, Jerry brings traditional Celtic tunes alive by
sharing the history, humor, and legends behind the music. “Jerry
Barlow's performances reveal a performer who is skilled, funny and
riveting. Out of the many musicians performing today, the vast majority
are skilled in either performing on their instrument or in entertaining
an audience. It's very rare and extremely enjoyable to see a musician at
the very top of his craft in both areas,” says Scott Beach,
Entertainment Director of Colorado Celtic Entertainment.
The Indie Acoustic Project, an international award that celebrates the
best in innovative, independent acoustic music, has selected the title
song from Jerry’s newest CD, BRING DOWN THE STORM, as “one of the best
songs of 2006.” Songs from his first CD, KEEPSAKE, have been played on
National Public Radio and were included in a PBS documentary Song of Our
Children. Jerry was featured in Fingerstyle Guitar magazine. He has
performed for the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music in the
Gates Auditorium. Other performances include Swallow Hill Music
Association in Denver, the Performing Arts Festival at the Denver Center
for Performing Arts, and the Main Stage at the Cherry Creek Arts
Festival in Denver. CD’s Keepsake and Bring Down the Store are available
at all performances.
Please join us in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day month as we welcome
Jerry Barlow’s first appearance with the Music Festival Series at the
Stanley Hotel.
March 9 concert features Helen Nebeker, the international award winning
child piano prodigy. Although only 9 years old, Helen Nebeker is a
dedicated musician who is highly motivated, dependable, serious,
conscientious, preserving, sensitive and “fun!” Due to her incredible
achievements, she has received a personal invitation to perform a “solo”
concert in Moscow, Russia at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in
the future.
The previously scheduled group Espirit will be in the series next
season.
This
concert is sponsored by Bessie Chittwood.
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March
9, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel MacGregor Room
Helen Nebeker, Child Piano Prodigy
Classical Piano
Sponsored by:
Bob
& Joyce Hamblin
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9-year-old International
Award Winning Child Prodigy performs at the Stanley Hotel.
Helen Nebeker, age 9, has studied piano with Julia Amada Kruger since
the age of 4 and has achieved incredible national and international
recognition awards - including First Place International Win in the
Bradshaw/Buono International Piano Competition in New York, which
resulted in her performance at Carnegie Hall in May 2006. Helen recently
was honored to perform with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Too numerous to
list, Helen’s many awards since she began competing only a few years ago
at the age of five have included First Place wins at:
The International Chopin Competition (Houston) receiving the honor of
being the youngest (at then age 4) in the competition.
The International Duo Competition (Colorado) receiving multiple First
PIace International Awards.
The United States Open International Music Competition (California).
Since competing in this competition (2004-2007), Helen has been awarded
10 First Place Wins and received the honor of being named one of twenty
First Place Winners to perform on the “Gold Medal Winners Concert” in
Oakland, CA. In the past two months (2008), Helen has won nine
International Firsts.
Although only 9 years old, Helen Nebeker is a dedicated musician who is
highly motivated, dependable, serious, conscientious, persevering,
sensitive and fun! Due to her outstanding achievements, she has received
a personal invitation to perform a “solo” concert in Moscow at the
Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in the near future.
Helen’s program will feature Bach, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin,
Chopin, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Lecuona.
Please join us as we welcome the extraordinary talent of Prodigy Helen
Nebeker. Meet Helen and her teacher Julia Amada Kruger after the
concert.
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, on Sunday, March 16, the Music
Festival will welcome back Loretta Thompson’s Celtic Ensemble. Playing
fiddle, guitar, whistles and more, Loretta magically entertains her
audiences with instrumental and vocal repertoires in traditional Celtic
music, American Historic and Old Time Country, Turn-of-the-century
Nostalgia, as well as Classical and popular styles. With unforgettable
melodies and toe-tapping jigs and reels, she will move your spirit to
dance! Be it Scottish, Irish, American, or other, her stirring
renditions will sweep you away on a fascinating journey to the old
country.
Loretta Thompson concert sponsored by the Estes Park UPS Store.
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February 17, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel Music Room
Barbara Barber, Violin
and
David Korevaar, Piano
Sonatas
for violin and piano by Schubert, Richard Willis and Franck
Sponsored by:
Judy Nystrom and Diane Roehl,
The Home Team, Colorado Realty GMAC
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The program will feature sonatas for violin and piano by Schubert,
Richard Willis and Franck.
Estes Park violinist and violist Barbara Barber is internationally known
as a recording artist, pedagogue, publisher, consultant, adjudicator,
editor and author. She has taught and concertized at conferences,
institutes and workshops in nearly every state in the U.S., and in
Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, Peru, Australia, Korea, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, Japan, Italy, Ireland, Finland, Sweden and Bermuda. She has
appeared as soloist with orchestras in the United States, Mexico and
Brazil. She received her B.M. and M.M. degrees in violin performance at
Texas Tech University and has taught violin, violin pedagogy and
directed Preparatory Programs at Texas Tech University and Texas
Christian University. Active in the American String Teachers
Association and the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Barbara Barber
has been recognized for her many articles, presentations and roles on
advisory and editorial boards. She was chair of the Violin Committee
for revision of the 2003 ASTA String Syllabus and is a Registered
Violin Teacher Trainer and past board member of the SAA. Her 26 books
and CDs—Solos For Young Violinists, Solos For Young Violists, Scales
For Advanced Violinists, Scales for Advanced Violists, Twinkle
Variations Festival Arrangement and Fingerboard Geography—are
published by her company, Preludio Music Inc., and distributed
exclusively by Alfred Publishing Company. More than 250,000 of her
books and recordings have been sold worldwide. She has also released a
CD with Brian Lewis and Michael McLean entitled Care To Tango?
(Oak Cliff Publishing) and has performed with the Fort Worth Symphony,
Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic, Sinfonia of Colorado and
Longmont Symphony. Ms. Barber currently teaches in Estes Park and
Boulder.
Barbara Barber has more than 30 years of teaching experience working
with students of all ages and has traveled extensively during recent
years, performing solo and chamber music concerts, conducting violin and
viola pedagogy courses for teachers and teaching students at workshops
and institutes. She has made nine trips to Brazil where she has
conducted sixteen courses for more than 200 teachers, worked with
countless students and performed many recitals. Recent lecture-recitals
and clinics have taken her to the Suzuki Association of the Americas
Conference in Minneapolis, the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas
Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio, the University of
Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, the American String
Teachers Association Conferences in Columbus, Dallas and Reno (where she
was an invited Masterclass Clinician along with Barry Green, Donald
McInnes, Midori, Eleonore Schoenfeld, Irene Sharp and Jeffrey Solow),
the Florida Music Educators Association Convention in Tampa, the Montana
Music Educators Association in Bozeman, the Longy School of Music in
Boston, the Community Music School in Philadelphia, the Music Institute
of Chicago and New Jersey University.
Pianist David Korevaar has given New York recitals in Lincoln Center's
Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and the New School.
He has been heard in recital across the country, from Yale and Harvard,
the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress and the Phillips Collection, to
Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Dallas and San Diego. He has been heard
as soloist with orchestras throughout the United Sates, from Arkansas
and Iowa to New York and California. A founding member of the
Prometheus Piano Quartet, he has performed as guest artist with the
Manhattan, Lark, Colorado, Chester and Shanghai quartets, and toured the
U.S. as a founding member of the Young Concert Artists award-winning
group Hexagon, concertizing as well in Australia, Asia, Europe and
Central America. David Korevaar's compositions have earned him high
regard, as has his sympathetic handling of the compositions of his
peers. He has participated in the commissioning and premiering of a
number of new works, as well as the performance and recording of works
by American composers. His concert performances are frequently
broadcast on NPR's “Performance Today.” He has made solo recordings on
the Helicon, Ivory Classics and Musicians Showcase labels. Honors and
awards include top prizes in the University of Maryland William Kapell
International Piano Competition and from the Peabody-Mason Music
Foundation, and a special prize for his performance of French music from
the Robert Casadesus Competition. In May 2000, he received the Richard
French award from the Juilliard School, honoring his Doctoral Document
on Ravel's Miroirs.
David Korevaar began his piano studies at age six in San Diego with
Sherman Storr, and at age 13 became a student of the great American
virtuoso, Earl Wild. By age 20 he had earned his B.M. and M.M. from the
Juilliard School, where he continued his studies with Earl Wild and
studied composition with David Diamond. He has also coached with Paul
Doguereau. He received his D.M.A. from the Juilliard School after
studying with Abbey Simon. In August 2000, he commenced his appointment
as assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Colorado, Boulder,
after previously serving on the faculties of the Westport School of
Music and the University of Bridgeport. He makes his home in Boulder
with his wife Elizabeth, daughter Alice, and son Willem.
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February 10, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel Music Room
Margaret Patterson, Piano
Betsy Skinner, Soprano
(Voice/Piano Recital "Art Songs and Arias"
Sponsored by:
The Greater Allenspark Community Alliance
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Elizabeth (Betsy) Skinner and Margaret (Margie) Patterson join together
to collaborate on a voice-piano recital at the historic Stanley Hotel,
February 10 at 2:00 PM as part of the Estes Park Music Festival Winter
Series. The program “Art Songs and Arias” will include works by
Schubert, Brahms, Puccini and Catalani. Among the pieces are Schubert’s
famous “Die Forelle” ,also known as “The Trout” which inspired
Schubert’s later arranged for string quartet. Schubert’s early
masterpiece “Gretchen am Spinnrade” and Brahms incredibly powerful “’Von
ewiger Liebe” will also be offered. In contrast, Puccini arias from La
Boheme and La Rondine will transport the audience into the world of
Italian Grand opera. Finally, Catalani’s lushly beautiful aria “Ebben…ne
andro lontano” from La Wally is best known from the French cult film
“Diva” but was also used in the films “Philadelphia” and “Crimson Tide”.
Betsy Skinner just concluded a very busy fall of performances in Estes
Park where she was named musical director for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
“Oklahoma” with the Fine Arts Guild of the Rockies. She was also a
soprano soloist in the December performance of Handel’s “Messiah” with
the Estes Park Oratorio Society and just wrapped up directing and
singing the lead role of “The Mother in Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night
Visitors ” also with the Fine Arts Guild. Betsy holds both Masters and
Doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music and has had a long
career as a performer in opera, oratorio, song recital and Broadway
musical theatre. She is also a published author of books on singing
performance and a frequent presenter at national and international music
conference. Before moving to Colorado and Allenspark, she was a
full-time college professor specializing in voice performance pedagogy
and music education. She and her husband, Lee, reside in Allenspark
where she maintains a private voce studio and assists her husband in
their hand-man business, Allenspark Associates.
Margie Patterson is a frequent presenter at the Stanley Hotel, in
Colorado and in the Eastern United States. Before moving to Allenspark,
she actively performed in the DC/Bethesda Maryland area and in other
east coast cities. She has a varied career as a soloist accompanist,
chamber musician and teacher. In 2004, Patterson was a prize winner in
the Simone Belsky Piano Competition for pianists over the age of 30
committed to re-establishing a performing career. She is currently
pursuing a graduate degree in piano performance at the University of
Colorado-Boulder. Margie and her husband Glenn also perform as Ragrats,
a piano-string bass duo performing Ragtime music.
The Pattersons will host a reception for Allenspark residents and
friends at their home following the concert. For more information call
303-747-2089 or 303-747-1013.
This concert is sponsored by The Greater Allenspark Community Alliance.
February 17 concert features Barbara Barber, violin and David Korevaar,
piano.
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January 27, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel Music Room
Voice of the Wood
with guest appearance by Peggy Lyon
Cello Quartet/Vocal and Piano
Sponsored by:
Chrysalis at the Stanley
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Voice of the Wood (formerly
Evergreen Cello Quartet) has selected an entertaining and
versatile program for their second appearance with the Music
Festival. The cello quartet with the piano and voice of
Peggy Lyon promises a special musical event.
Peggy Lyon on piano will open the concert with the Prelude
from Voice of the Wood by Russell Peck. Lyon continues her
versatile talent with soprano selections of the Cabaret
Songs of Benjamin Britten.
A mixture of Bach, Unger and Basil Poledouris’s Lonesome
Dove will add to the exquisite sounds of this talented
group.
Marilyn Hof is a cellist with the Evergreen Chamber
Orchestra. She played for more than 5 seasons with the Fort
Collins Symphony and enjoyed brief stints with orchestras in
Long, Loveland and the Denver metro area. Hof studied music
at the University of New Mexico and received bachelors and
masters degrees from the forestry college at Colorado State
University. Recently retired after 30 years with the
National Park Service, she is enjoying renewed focus on
chamber music and having time to practice.
Michael Marecak is a cellist with the Jefferson Symphony
Orchestra and principal cellist with the Evergeen Chamber
Orchestra. He is the oldest son of noted regional artists
Edward and Donna Marecak. Michael is retired from the
University of Colorado at Denver. Marecak is also a past
member of Community Arts Symphony, Arapahoe Chamber
Orchestra, Denver Chamber Orchestra, and the Metropolitan
State College Symphony Orchestra.
Shirley Marecak is a cellist with the Jefferson Symphony
Orchestra and the Evergreen Chamber Orchestra. She is
retired from the University of Colorado at Denver. Shirley
is a past member of the Pueblo Symphony Orchestra, Arapahoe
Chamber Orchestra, Denver Chamber Orchestra, and the
Metropolitan State College Orchestra.
Stephen Weidner is a cellist with the Evergreen Chamber
Orchestra. He is Director of Strings at Colorado School of
Mines and a substitute for local area orchestras. Weidner is
also the cellist for the Mesa String Trio and Quartet and
teaches privately at his studios in Golden and Aurora.
Peggy Lyon has been a favorite of the Winter Series for
several years. Peggy is a concert pianist who has performed
in Austria, Peru and other major cities in the Western
United States. Lyon has recorded nine solo CD’s. Please join
us as we welcome back the Voice of the Wood with a special
guest appearance by Peggy Lyon.
This concert is sponsored by Chrysalis at the Stanley.
There will be no concert on Super Bowl Sunday, February 3rd.
The ¾ Trio will be re scheduled next season.
Margaret Patterson and Betsy Skinner will perform piano and
opera vocal on February 10, 2008. The duo of Patterson and
Skinner is sponsor by the Greater Allenspark Community
Alliance.
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January 20, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel MacGregor Ballroom
New Wizard Oil Combination Men's Chorale
www.wizardoil.org
Vocal Jazz
Sponsored by:
Gregg Coffman, Attorney
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Time spent with Colorado’s New
Wizard Oil Combination is full of nostalgia, humor, good music
and cheerful attitude. The 12 man A Cappella group has a word
for their kind of music. It’s called “Vocal Jazz”- the kind of
singing that adapts instrumental sounds and techniques to pop
and ageless standards. Informally called “The Wizards”, these
guys sing with skill and abandon and revel in getting their
audiences to tune in to a very happy style of singing, yet one
that embraces the best of choral and jazz music traditions.
The members, professionals in education, business and the
sciences, come from a variety of backgrounds and universities.
They trace their singing to a Yale ensemble of similar bent
called the “Whiffenpoofs”. The men who started the group in 1972
included former “Whiffs”. Taking their name New Wizard Oil
Combination from the 19th century “combinations” of singers and
snake-oil sellers, this Colorado Vocal Jazz Society men’s group
is comprised of Yale and the University of Colorado alum who
didn’t get enough in school!.
Suffice to say to say, the Wizards approach “middle age” with a
couple of original members, alumni of a number of colleges, an
age range of approximately 40 years, a constantly changing
repertoire, and an enthusiasm for life and music which defies
description. What more could you ask of musical entertainment
than music sung with skill and abandon from the New Wizard Oil
Combination.
Join us for a change of pace and listen to some of your
favorites from the Beetles, Spinners, the Four Freshman,
Ellington, Hoagie Carmichael, Irving Berlin, Ellington and the
Lounge Lizards. The Wizards constantly evolve their musical
material, intent on reflecting the best in a new and prospering
age of unaccompanied vocal jazz.
The “Wizards” have provided entertainment programs for over
thirty years and are affiliated with the Colorado Vocal Jazz
Society. Check their web site at www.wizardoil.org.
This concert is sponsored by Gregg Coffman, Attorney.
The Stanley Hotel extends a 15% discount toward lunch or dinner
in the Cascade Room to all Music Festival attendees on the day
of the concert.
The next concert will feature Voice of the Wood (celli) on
January 27, 2008 sponsored by Chrysalis Boutique at the Stanley.
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January 6, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Music Room
A Lyric Ensemble
Kimberlee Hanto- Cello
Fran Piazza- Flute
Dennis Burns-guitar
Sponsored by:
Ed & Marge Getchell
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A Lyric Ensemble has established a reputation for
excellence throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Founded by
Kimberlee Hanot in 1987, their unusual and appealing variety of
instruments and repertoire has proven very popular. The ensemble
received an Honorable Mention in the Coleman, Evian and Fischoff
Competitions and has received numerous grant awards for
excellence. They have performed many concerts throughout the
years in Colorado and Wyoming in addition to public and private
functions.
Kimberlee Hanton- cellist, is a native Boulderite, received her
Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music and her
Master of Music from the University of Colorado. Ms. Hanto was
principal cellist of the Casper, WY Symphony from 1987-1990. She
taught strings and orchestra in Boulder at the Shining Mountain
Waldorf School and has performed with the Colorado Music
Festival, Colorado Ballet Orchestra and the Denver Centre for
the Performing Arts since 1990. She currently coaches student
chamber ensembles and is founder and artist director for the
Colorado Cello Choir in addition to managing and performing the
Lyric Ensemble.
Fran Piazza-flute, received the Bachelor of Music degree in
flute performance from the Boston Conservatory of Music. She has
performed with virtually every major professional organization
in the area, including the Colorado Symphony, Central City
Opera, and the Colorado Music Festival. Fran is currently a
staff member of the Arapahoe High School Band and teaches 50
private students weekly. Piazza is a former faculty member of
both Metro State College and the Denver School of the Arts. In
1994, she was awarded the “Excellence in Teaching” award from
the Denver School of the Arts. Fran has performed with the Lyric
Ensemble since 1990.
Dennis Burns-guitar received his Bachelor of Music as the first
Guitar Performance Major from the University of Color in 1983.
As a soloist, Dennis ha been featured on public radio and
television. He is the founder of Bolder Sounds, a sound design
company. Dennis played in the Denver Guitar Duo for five year
and has performed with the Lyric Ensemble since 1987. Dennis
will be performing a selection he composed for solo guitar from
his CD “A Rose on the Lake” which will be available for sale
after the concert.
The group will be performing works from J.S. Bach, Villa Lobos,
Tartini and Ibert. The concert will feature solos and duos by
the members, as well as trios.
By popular demand, the Estes Park Music Festival is pleased to
present this repeat performance by the Lyric Ensemble. Please
join us on January 6, 2008 to celebrate the New Year with this
extraordinary program.
This concert is sponsored by Ed and Marg Getchell.
The next concert on January 13, 2008 will feature the
International Duo Pianos of Julia Kruger, Vice President of the
American College of Musicians and the famous Russian pianist,
Victor Bunin.
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January 13, 2008
2:00-3:15 PM
MacGregor Ballroom
Julia Amada Kruger and Victor Bunin
(duo pianists)
Sponsored by:
Edward Jones Investments
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Kruger/Bunin International Duo Pianists in
Concert at the Stanley Hotel MacGregor Ball Room will present a
versatile program for Two Pianos and One Piano 4 Hands.
Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Two Pianos) by Witold
Lutoslawski, Four Selections from Sketches by Valery Gavrillin,
Two Selections from Aaron Copeland’s Rodeo and the Rachmaninoff
Suite # Op. 17 for two pianos are included in the outstanding
repertoire for the afternoon.
Although Professor Victor Bunin and Julia Amada Kruger have
judged many international piano competitions together in the
past seven years, their union as a duo team began in 2002 and
already they are in constant demand both in Russia, America and
Europe. They have performed extensively across the United States
and in June of 2005 were invited by the United Nations in Kosovo
to present a “Week of Music” for the entire country and region.
For the first time since the war ended over 10 years ago, the
Bunin/Kruger team were welcomed as musical ambassadors to the
war devastated country. As a result of their successful week,
they were invited by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Albania to be the Guest Artists performing for the European
Cultural Summit in Tirana, Albania. While in Tirana, the
Kruger/Bunin team performed for 18 Foreign Ministers, 1000
European political delegates and over 130 European journalists.
The Bunin/Kruger team continues to receive multiple
international performance invitations. They were the Performing
Guests Artists at the renowned Instituto Musicale Nicola Vaccaj
in Tolentino, Italy. In April of 2006 the Duo performed in
Carnegie Hall and have been invited to teach at the National
University in Buenos Aires in the near future. Under the baton
of the renowned conductor, Leonid Shulman Bunin/Kruger performed
Mozart’s two-piano concerto in E-flat, K365 with the State
Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia in Kislovodsk, Russia.
Besides performing and judging together, Kruger and Bunin have
been asked by Russian musicians to organize a yearly
“Russian/American” Piano competition. The first competition will
be held in Moscow and will then alternate locations with the
second held in the United States. In addition, the duo team has
received an invitation to record a series of CD’s devoted to
Russian duo/duet repertoire.
Professor Victor Bunin lives in Moscow, Russia. Julia Amada
Kruger lives in Austin, TX.
Please join us as we honor the extraordinary Duo Pianists,
Victor Bunin and Julia Amada Kruger.
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December 16, 2007
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Music Room
Dr. Christine Armstrong
(pianist)
Gifts of Music, Classical,
Christmas and Audience Choice
Sponsored by:
Sykes Design
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A beautiful program of
classical and Christmas music by pianist Dr. Christine
Armstrong will end the year with familiar selections
including Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven, Chopin’s Nocturne
in C Sharp Minor and Franz Liszt’s , Weihnachtsbaum
(Christmas Tree Suite). An Old Christmas Carol, In dulci
jubilo and Adeste Fideles are among the holiday songs in
this week’s repertoire. To end her special “Gift of Music”
program, Dr. Armstrong will play “audience choices .”
Dr. Armstrong is a professional musician and has been
affiliated for many years with the Stanley Hotel. She has
entertained guests and celebrities as a soloist,
accompanist, duetist, chamber music artist, as well as a
free lance musician. Her diplomas include the following list
of impressive accomplishments: Fellow and Licentiate of the
Trinity college of London; associate of the Royal
Conservatory of Toronto, Ontario,Canada; Associate of the
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
As a qualified music educator, Dr. Christine has contributed
expertise and leadership positions with the following
prestigious organizations : American College of Musicians,
Music Teachers National Association, National Federation of
Music Clubs, Suzuki Association of the Americas and the
Suzuki Association of Colorado. Her intense schedule
includes local, national and international judging tours;
performing, lecturing, writing articles and reviews for
Piano Guild Notes; and teaching/coaching students of all
ages.
Please join us Sunday, December 16 at 2:00 PM in the Stanley
Music Room for keyboard holiday music of Christine Armstrong
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Dr. Armstrong’s concert is sponsored Sykes Design.
There will be no concert on December 23, 2007. Join us for
the New Year on January 6, 2008 with the Lyric Ensemble
(flute, guitar,cello) sponsored by Marge and Ed Getchell.
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December 9, 2007
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel Concert Hall
Note-ables International
6 Piece Instrumental Band,
Christmas and World Music
Sponsored by:
Dayle & Will Spencer
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The Note-ables
International is returning to the Estes Park Music Festival
with an afternoon of World and Christmas Music. This
instrumental group offers the unique sound of mandolins,
bandurria/laud, guitar, bass and percussion in a wide array
of musical numbers. From the Hungarian Dance No. 7 to the
Tijuana Taxi, the group will delight the audience with a
variety of upbeat music including Christmas songs to set the
stage for holiday joy.
Most audiences are familiar with the guitar, bass and
mandolin. Little less known to the general public is the
bandurria, a 12-or 14-string plectrum instrument, played
like a mandolin, but has 6 courses tuned in 4ths.The laud is
an octive lower than the bandurria. Although Spanish in
origin, the bandurria and laud are regarded as native
instruments in the Philippines, where some of the Note-ables
members are from, originally.
The Note-ables International has been in existence for nine
years and has been delighting a variety of audiences at
various international events. Note-able members performing
will be Janet Culig-Taylor (bandurria/laud, Art Huges
(bass), Mitch Pahang (guitar, Josefinea “Pepita” Tuason
(mandolin), Alice Yoder (mandolin) and William Vanghan on
percussion. The upcoming program will include some light
classics, Latin tunes, American favorites, Holiday
selections, and Philippine traditional music.
Bring your friends and family and join us for this unique
and upbeat concert. Please welcome the Note-ables and their
World Music. This concert will be in the Stanley Concert
Hall.
This concert is sponsored by Dayle and Will Spencer.
The next concert will be on December 16, 2007 at 2:00 PM in
the Stanley Hotel main building. Enjoy a beautiful holiday
afternoon of familiar classics and Christmas music by
concert pianist Dr. Christine Armstrong.
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December 2, 2007
2:00-3:15 PM
Stanley Hotel main building
Off-Trail String Trio
Jean Denney, violin
David Swiss, viola
Joseph Miller, violoncello
Sponsored by:
Rob Teigen, Estes Park Chiropractic, LLC
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The Off-Train String Trio is a group of
classical musicians who like to have fun. Violinist Jean
Denney, Violist, Dave Swiss, and cellist Joe Miller make up
the trio which plays mostly classical repertoire, although
they also program some music not traditionally heard on
strings. The Trio strives to bring the music of violin,
viola and cello to life in everyday Northern Colorado. They
believe “classical” music is for everyone to hear, enjoy and
play.
Estes Park resident Jean Denney holds a bachelor’s degree in
Music Education and a master’s degree in Violin Performance.
She has performed with the Cheyenne Symphony, Philharmonic
Orchestra of Indianapolis, Colorado Music Festival
Orchestra, Greeley Chorale, Larimer Chorale Canyon Concert
Ballet, Colorado Dance Theatre, Opera Ft. Collins, West
Nebraska Masterworks Chorale, and various other groups and
touring artist. Jean also directed public school orchestras
in Colorado, Texas and Indiana, and maintained a private
violin studio since 1984. Denney is currently a violinist in
the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra and Ft. Collins symphony
Orchestra as well as the Off-Trail String Trio. She began
pioneering a string program in the Estes Park Public Schools
in 2006 and serves as a chamber music coach for the Youth
Orchestra of the Rockies. Jean served on the Educators
Advisory Committee of the Indianapolis Symphony, is past
Executive Director of the String Quartet Program of Northern
Colorado, and recently accepted the position of Office
Manager at Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes.
David Swiss holds a Master of Music Degree from the
University of Northern Colorado in Viola Performance and
Music History. He has done extensive further study at the
University of Oregon in Musicology and Ethnomusicology.
David has performed in the New Mexico Symphony, Chamber
Orchestra of Albuquerque, Eugene Symphony, Oregon Mozart
Players, Front Range Chamber Players, Yaquina Chamber
Orchestra and many other groups. Swiss played the Medieval
fiddle in the University of Oregon Collegium Musicum and
violin in the U. of E. Eastern European Ensemble. He
currently plays viola in the Greeley Philharmonic, Fort
Collins Symphony and Off-Trail String Trio and plays in the
mandola in Mandomonium, a Fort Collins based mandolin
orchestra.
Alaska-born Joseph Miller is a doctoral student in cello
performance at the University of Northern Colorado. He holds
a B.A. in cello performance from Montana State
University-Bozeman and M. M. in cello performance from UNC.
In 2001, he was the featured soloist with the MSU chamber
orchestra. In the spring of 2007, Mr. Miller was a featured
soloist with the UNC Juventus Choral Ensemble in Bogotá,
Columbia. He also performed with the Bismarck-Mandan
Symphony Orchestra, Bozeman Symphony, Intermountain Opera
Company, and Fort Collins Symphony. Currently, he is
principal cellist of UNC’s university and chamber
orchestras, a member of the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra,
cellist of the Off-Trail String Trio, Vice President of
UNC’s chapter of the American String Teachers Association,
and maintains a small studio of private cello students.
Miller won the 2007 UNC concerto competition.
The Trio will offer a “classical Christmas gift” in their
performance on Sunday of Arcangelo Corelli’s Christmas
Concerto. Other program selections include Haydn
Divertimento, Beethoven Trio in c minor, Opus 9, No.3 and
Appalachian Fugue and Breakdown.
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November 25, 2007
2:00-3:15 PM
Peggy Lyon Duo
Featuring Peggy Lyon, piano and
Gregory Dufford, clarinet
Sponsored by State Farm Insurance
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The Peggy Lyon Duo has been a favorite of the Sunday Series
for several years. Peggy Lyon is a concert pianist whose
playing is described as “radiating beauty and an inner
intensity of feeling which is simply overwhelming”. She has
performed solo recitals in Austria, Peru, and other major
cities in the western United States, and has given world
premieres of works by David Baker, Eugene Kurz and Istvan
Hornyak. She has also performed concerts with orchestras in
Los Angeles, Las Vegas, in Pullman, Washington and Denver,
Golden, and Evergreen, Colorado. Lyon has recorded nine solo
CD’s.
Peggy’s award-winning specialty is giving concerts with
commentary about the music and composers. Her talks are
informative and humorous and are unique for including
outrageous pronouncements of critics. Lyon studied piano and
voice at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and at
the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She has a Masters in piano
performance from Washington State University and a Masters
in voice performance from the University of Denver.
As clarinetist/bass clarinetist for the San Francisco Opera
Orchestra from 1980 to 1998, Gregory Dufford performed with
many of the world finest opera singers. His performing
experience went well beyond the opera stage to include 13
years as Principal Clarinetist of the San Francisco
Contemporary Music Players. During that period, the group
produced seven CD’s on various labels, and premiered works
by Elliott Carter, John Cage, John Harbison and others.
Gregory also performed with and was a founding member of
several other chamber music ensembles in the San Francisco
area, such as the Anchor Chamber Players, the Stanford
Woodwind Quintet and the Beaumont Ensemble. He also held
teaching positions at Stanford and San Francisco State
Universities. Since moving to Evergreen, Colorado, he
dedicates his time to woodwind instruction and chamber music
coaching, and is the clarinet instructor at Metropolitan
State College in Denver.
The Duo will play works by Gabriel Faure´, Karl Stamitz,
John Williams, Rachmaninov and Paquits d’Rivera.
Please join us to welcome back Peggy Lyon and Gregory
Dufford. The Peggy Lyon Duo is sponsored by State Farm
Insurance.
The Off Trail String Trio featuring Jean Denney, violin,
David Swiss, viola and Joseph Miller, violoncello will
perform on December 2nd with a program of classical, folk
and Christmas music.
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NOVEMBER 18,
2007 - 2:00 PM
Hsing-ay Hsu
This concert is sponsored by
Chrysalis at the Stanley Hotel
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The
Estes Park Music Festival is honored to welcome International
pianist Hsing-ay Hsu (“Sing- I Shoo”) for her first appearance with
the Festival. Since making her debut at age 4, pianist Hsing-ay has
performed at such notable venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy
Center, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall (a sold-out recital) and abroad in Asia and Europe.
Recent concerto performances include a five-city tour of China and
the Barber Concerto with Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony
Orchestra. She made her Houston Symphony Orchestra debut as first
prizewinner of the 2003 Ima Hogg National Competition. Other
concerto collaborations include the Baltimore, Pacific, China
National, Shanghai, Xiamen, Florida West Coast, New Jersey and
Waterbury orchestras. Television and radio broadcasts include
Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion Live from Tanglewood with
a standing ovation from the live audience of over 10,000 and a
broadcast audience of 3.9 million.
Especially interested in new music, Hsu has given numerous world
premieres, including performances at the Guggenheim Museum in New
York, Denmark and Taiwan and other countries around the world. Hsing-ay
was also the 2000 winner of the prestigious Juilliard William
Petschek Recital Award. Upon entering her freshman year at Juillard,
she won the 1996 William Kapell International Piano Competition
second prize and was named a US Presidential Scholar of the Arts by
President Clinton at the White House.
Born in Beijing, Hsu began piano lessons with her parents, later
studied with Fei-Ping Hsu, Herbert Stessin at Juilliard and Claude
Frank at Yale. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Tanglewood
Music Center, Ravinia’s Steans Institute , the Aldeburg
Britten-Pears Programme and the Aspen Music Festival. She is
currently the Artistic Administrator and Instructor of the Pendulum
New Music Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she
resides with her husband, composer Daniel Kellogg.
Please join Hsing-ay Hsu for an extraordinary afternoon of classical
piano. Meet Hsing-ay after the concert. Her program includes remarks
about the composer Eztra Laderaman and the Colorado Premier of his
composition , Piano Sonata No 3.
This concert is being sponsored by Chrysalis at the Stanley Hotel.
If you would like to sponsor a concert for the Winter Series, please
call Tamara at 970-586-3418 or email tamara@estesparkvacational.com.
Returning favorite Peggy Lyon on clarinet will be featured on
November 25, 2007.
NOVEMBER 11, 2007 - 2:00 PM
The Cantabile Singers
A Capella Chorus
This concert is sponsored by Julie Phares and Linden/Bartels and Noe
Insurance Agency

The Estes Park Music Festival welcomes back the Cantabile Singers
for their eighth appearance with the Festival. The Cantabile Singers is
one of the premier choral ensembles in Boulder County dedicated to
performing a wide range of music from classical to jazz, gospel and
folk. The all-volunteer members represent a wide variety of ages,
backgrounds, and musical experience and include professionally trained
musicians as well as enthusiastic amateurs.
Robert Farr has been the group’s Music Director and conductor since
1992. He is responsible for the group’s musical quality and is an
integral part of its success. Robert received his Bachelor of Music
degree in organ and church music from Stetson University and received a
Master of Sacred Music degree from Union Theological Seminary in New
York City. He has served as organist-choirmaster in churches in Florida,
New Jersey, Michigan, and Boulder.
Striving to bring their appreciation and love of music to the audience,
the program will include Irish love songs and works by Faure, Poulenc,
Brahms, and Rutter.
Please join us for this extraordinary group and welcome back the
Cantabile Singers.
This concert is sponsored by Julie Phares and Linden/Bartels and Noe
Insurance Agency.
The next concert on Sunday, November 18th at 2:00 PM will feature
Chinese pianist Hsing-Ay Hsu in her first appearance with the Music
Festival Stanley Winter Series.
If you would like to sponsor a concert for the Winter Series, please
call Tamara at 970-586-3418 or email
tamara@estesparkvacational.com.
NOVEMBER 4, 2007 - 2:00 PM Colorado Classical Guitar Collaboration

Program: Classical 8 Guitar Ensemble
The Estes Park Music Festival opens the Winter Series at the Stanley Hotel
with an exciting new group, the Colorado Classical Guitar Collaboration. The
Collaboration is a group of eight guitarists who enjoy performing guitar
ensemble together. Founded in 2004 by Masakazu Ito, critically acclaimed
International guitarist, all the members performing are Ito’s students and
have joined the troop after strenuous auditions.
Masakazu Ito recognized as one of today’s top guitarists, has multiple
awards and publications to his credit and is acclaimed by musicians,
composers, conductors, and critics for his mastery of the instrument and its
repertoire. As a teacher, he currently holds a position at the University of
Denver’s Lamont School of Music, where he received his master’s degree under
the guidance of Ricardo Iznaola.
The Guitar Collaboration under the coaching of Masakazu Ito, will perform
‘Duo in D Majo’r by Ferdinando Carulli, ‘ Partie Polonaise’ by G. Ph.
Telemann, ‘Jongo’ by Paulo Bellinati, ‘Estampas’ for Four Guitars by F.
Moreno Torroba among others. Three duos, one trio, one quartet, and one
octet make up the afternoon’s spectacular program.
Please join the Estes Park Music Festival for the opening concert of the
Winter Series at the Stanley Hotel and welcome the first appearance of the
Colorado Classical Guitar Collaboration.
This concert is sponsored by the Boulder Valley Credit Union.
If you would like to sponsor a concert this Winter, please call Tamara at
970-586-3418 or email tamara@estesparkvacational.com.
The Cantabile Singers will perform in the Stanley Concert Hall on November
11, 2007.
For further information, contact our business office at 970-586-9519.
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