Walden School - Concert Series

2010

Schedule

Past Artists

The 2001 Walden School Concert Series

Individual Concert Ticket Prices:
$10 for adults, $5 for students & seniors

4-Concert Series Ticket Prices:
$30 for adults, $15 for students & seniors

CONCERT 1: Friday, July 6, 8:00 pm

Teresa McCollough, piano

Teresa McCollough is a frequent recitalist in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as elsewhere in the United States, and has performed with orchestras in New York, Ohio, Arizona, St. Louis and California. She can be heard on radio broadcasts including the McGraw-Hill Young Artists Series, Music from Oberlin and Live from Hochstein in Rochester, New York. As a winner of the National Association of Composers, USA, Young Performer's Award, she is noted for her performance of 20th century music and has premiered the works of George Crumb, Lou Harrison, Frederic Rzewski and other celebrated American composers. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music, Dr. McCollough is the recipient of many honors, including the Frank Shaw Award for Outstanding Pianist and the Chautauqua Prize, among others. Dr. McCollough is Associate Professor of Music at Santa Clara University.

CONCERT 2: Friday, July 13, 8:00 pm

The yesaroun' Duo

Samuel Solomon, percussion & Eric Hewitt, saxophones

The yesaroun' Duo is an exploratory ensemble, performing an eclectic mix of serious late 20th and 21st century music written for saxophone and percussion, as well as their own creative arrangements and transcriptions of older music. The Duo has appeared in numerous recitals in the New York and Boston area, including Malcolm Peyton's Composers Series concert in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. In individual performances, Mr. Solomon has performed at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, and has been in residence at the Bowdoin and Tanglewood summer music festivals. Mr. Hewitt has appeared as a guest saxophonist with the New World Symphony, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a member of the Ryles Jazz Orchestra, and has performed with jazz legends such as John Faddis, Ed Calle and Phil Wilson.

The yesaroun' Duo will be in residence at The Walden School for three days. They will commission members of The Walden School Faculty to write new works for their ensemble in advance of the summer session, and these original works will be mounted in open rehearsals at Walden. The Duo's residency will culminate with this concert, which will feature premiere performances of the exciting, new works written by members of the Walden faculty.

CONCERT 3: Friday, July 20, 8:00 pm

The Onus

The Onus is a dynamic chamber jazz ensemble founded and led by clarinetist, Darryl Harper of Baltimore, Maryland. Recognizing the centrality of composition to the evolution of jazz, the band applies its spirit of inventiveness to its choice of material. While each musician brings to the group a mastery of the traditional repertoire of standards from the various sub-genres of modern jazz, collectively, The Onus exercises its talents on original compositions and on its own innovative arrangements of less familiar entries in the global jazz anthology. The Onus seeks to unite a cadre of serious and talented young musicians behind the purpose of cultivating a sophisticated and distinctive group sound, which at once honors, references and extends jazz tradition.

CONCERT 4: Friday, July 27, 8:00 pm

Non sequitur

Non sequitur is one of the most exciting and innovative new ensembles emerging today. By drawing from the diverse individual backgrounds and talents of its members, Non sequitur strives to expand the scope of the current "new music ensemble" mode. Beginning with classical contemporary music as a starting point, the group incorporates improvisation, popular music, jazz, non-western music, multimedia, and performance art into their concerts. Additionally, Non sequitur is deeply devoted to education and the building of relationships with both the public and artistic institutions. By endeavoring to reflect the spiritual role of music in society, the group seeks to promote further understanding of self and culture.

Returning to The Walden School after a highly acclaimed residency during our 2000 Season, Non sequitur will perform one concert, work with Walden student composers as they complete their original compositions, and perform these new works over three evenings of Festival Week Composers Forums.

Composers Forums

Works by Walden School student composers are performed by Students, Faculty, and visiting artists.

All Composers Forums are free and open to the public.

Monday, July 2, 7:30pm Composers Forum I
Monday, July 9, 7:30 pm Composers Forum II
Monday, July 16, 7:30pm Composers Forum III

Festival Week

All Festival Week events are free and open to the public.

Monday, July 30, 7:30 pm Festival Composers Forum
Tuesday, July 31, 7:30 pm Festival Composers Forum
Wednesday, August 1, 7:30 pm Festival Composers Forum

James Mobberley, moderator and Composer-in-Residence

Dr. James Mobberley grew up in central Pennsylvania and spent his high school and college years in North Carolina. Since 1983 he has been on the composition faculty of the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he is currently Professor of Music. He also directs the Conservatory's Music Production And Computer Technology (M-PACT) Center. Since 1991 he has been the Kansas City Symphony's first Composer-in-Residence. This residency was expanded to include the State Ballet of Missouri and the Paseo Academy for the Performing and Visual Arts, the local arts magnet high school, through a grant from Meet the Composer's New Residencies program for 1994-97. He has received numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize Fellowship, a Composer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lee Ettelson Composers Award, the International Composers competition of the Polish Section - ISCM, and others. Commissions have come from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, Meet the Composer, the St. Louis Symphony Chamber Series, the Kansas City Symphony, other organizations and numerous individual performers.

James Mobberley will be in residence for five days, attending rehearsals and working informally with Walden students. In addition, he will preside over all three evenings of Festival Week Composers' Forums, offering comments from his own experience as well as facilitating discussion among Walden's student composers, the performers, and the audience.

Thursday, August 2, 3:00 pm

Classwork Demonstration
Patricia Plude , moderator
The students and faculty of The Walden School offer a demonstration of their summer's work together

Friday, August 3, 8:00 pm

The Walden School Chorus
Leo Wanenchak , director
The Walden School Chorus, comprising students, faculty, and staff, presents its annual concert of choral music, featuring a mix of contemporary and classical favorites.