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January 15, 2012 |
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| Music written for composers' loved ones. | ||
| Leonard Duarte, Composer Mr. Duarte was a high school music teacher for thirty-eight years. Thirty of those years at Chico High School where he directed the orchestra, choirs and bands. He retired from Chico High School in June of 1998. Mr. Duarte has received many awards; the Distinguished Alumni award from California State University, Chico in conjunction with the College of Humanities and Fine Arts in 2007, the Music Educator of the Year award from the California Music Educators Association in 1989, the Band Director of the Year award from the Northern California Band Directors Association in 1995, the CUTA Outstanding Service award in 1974 and Outstanding Secondary Educator of America in 1975. He received his music education at San Jose State University and Los Angeles State University where he earned his BA. He received his Master of Arts degree from California State University, Chico. Jeff Janke, Composer Mr. Janke earned his baccalaureate degree from Chapman University with a major in Music Education. After directing junior high and high school music programs for seven years and completing an M.A. degree at Azusa Pacific University in 1980, Jeff and his family moved to Paradise. Jeff retired from teaching in 2006 after thirty-three years of public school service, but he has not stopped writing music. His jazz music has gained international recognition. He is frequently asked to provide musical expertise for various projects throughout the state and local community. The Symphony will play his "Lullaby for Rae Jean" and "Something for Sybil". |
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March 11, 2012 |
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| Mendelssohn Piano Concerto | ||
| Sontraud Speidel Discovering forgotten, unknown as well as new compositions and treading new paths in the repertoire – these are the favorite challenges of pianist Sontraud Speidel. She thus initiated the very first recordings of piano pieces by Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny Hensel as well as by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Johann Ladislaus Dussek, Theodor Kirchner and Carl Reinecke. At the age of five, Sontraud Speidel had her first piano lessons. When she was eleven, she started studying at Karlsruhe University of Music with Irene Slavin. Sontraud Speidel has won numerous national and international competitions. She has played concerts in the whole of Europe, in Israel, the USA, Canada, Brazil, Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. She was the soloist in the premiere of the “Concerto” for piano and 13 instruments by David Winkler in Tanglewood/USA. In 1979, the German chancellor Helmut Schmidt invited her to play a piano recital in the Palais Schaumburg in Bonn. Sontraud Speidel is a professor for piano and member of the university council of Karlsruhe University of Music. She used to be visiting professor at numerous universities as well as “Distinguished Visiting Professor” at California State University/USA. |
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May 6, 2012 |
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| Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor | ||
Dr. Robert Bowman, keyboard artist, has performed extensively on the West, Midwest and East Coasts of the United States since 1960 in solo and chamber ensemble recitals, on radio and TV, and as soloist with orchestras (including the Paradise, Chico, and Shasta Symphony Orchestras.) He has also performed solo and ensemble recitals in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Japan, and Mexico. In 1987, he was a prize winner in the Artists’ Division of the Young Keyboard Artists Association International Competition in Orlando, Florida.
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