The Proud Tradition Continues!
The Tuesday Musical Concert Series has touched three centuries and two millennia, blessing Omahans with a non-profit concert series of international artists. The proud tradition continues. The first concert of the 2008-09 season will feature The Guarneri Quartet.
Tuesday, Oct. 14,
2008
The Guarneri
Quartet
Founded in 1964, the Quarneri Quartet has toured extensively in the
United States, Europe and South America. Quartet members continue their
residence at the University of Maryland -- College Park, where they
serve on the faculty. The quartet was part of the 2002-2003 Tuesday Musical
season. This season's appearance is part of its farewell tour.
Tuesday, Nov. 18,
2008
Sarah Coburn,
soprano
Sarah Coburn's 2007-08 season includes the
role of Asteria in Tamerlano with Washington
National Opera, the title role of Lakmé
with Tulsa Opera and the role of Princess Yue-yang in the revival of The
First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera. She returns to
Seattle Symphony as soloist in Bach's Mass in B Minor, to Washington
Concert Opera as Elvira in I puritani, to
Cincinnati Opera in the title role of Lucie de Lammermoor,
and to Glimmerglass Opera in the summer of 2008 to sing Giulietta in I
Capuleti e i Montecchi. On the concert stage, Ms. Coburn has
sung Mozart's Mass in C Minor with the Seattle Symphony; Carmina
Burana with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall, the
National Symphony Orchestra, the Haddonfield Symphony at Philadelphia's
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, and the Dallas Wind Symphony.
Coburn is a winner of the 2004 George London Foundation Awards, a 2004
recipient of a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker
Foundation, a 2004 Jensen Foundation Award Winner, a 2003 Liederkranz
Foundation Award Winner, a 2002 Opera Index Career Grant recipient and
was a National Grand Finalist in the 2001 Metropolitan Opera National
Council auditions. She received a Master of Music degree from Oklahoma
City University and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Oklahoma
State University.
Tuesday, March 24,
2009
Chee-Yun, violin
Chee-Yun's first public performance at age 8 took place in her native
Seoul after she won the Grand Prize of the Korean Times Competition. At
13, she came to the United States and was invited to perform the
Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 5 in a Young People's Concert with the New York
Philharmonic. Two years later, she appeared as soloist with the New
York String Orchestra under Alexander Schneider at Carnegie Hall and
the Kennedy Center. In Korea, Chee-Yun studied with Nam Yun Kim. In the
United States, she has worked with Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Daniel
Phillips and Felix Galimir (chamber music) at The Juilliard
School.Chee-Yun has been heard frequently on National Public Radio's Performance
Today and on WQXR and WNYC radio in New York City. She has also been
featured on KTV, a children's program on the cable network CNBC, Garrison
Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion", on Public Radio International and numerous
syndicated and local radio programs across the United States and abroad.
In addition to her active performance and recording schedule, Chee-Yun is a dedicated and enthusiastic educator. She gives master classes around the world and has held several teaching posts at notable music schools and universities. Her past faculty positions have included serving as the resident Starling Soloist and Adjunct Professor of Violin at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Visiting Professor of Music (Violin) at Indiana University School of Music. In August 2007, she was appointed Artist-in-Residence and Professor of Violin at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
As a recitalist, Chee-Yun has performed in many major U.S. cities including New York, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Shai Wosner, piano
Shai Wosner enjoys a growing reputation with audiences and
critics, performing repertoire that ranges from Bach and Mozart to
Ligeti and composers of his own generation. Winner of a 2005 Avery
Fisher Career Grant and a 2005 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, he has
performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the
National Arts Center Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Utah
Symphony; and chamber music performances at the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C., New York's Mostly Mozart Festival and at Berlin's
Konzerthaus. He has worked with conductors such as Daniel Barenboim,
James Conlon, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Peter Oundjian, Donald
Runnicles and Yan Pascal Tortelier. Abroad, he has appeared with the
Vienna Philharmonic, Barcelona Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony,
Gothenburg Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, Nieuw
Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Orchestre National de Belgique and the
Staatskapelle Berlin, among others. Born in Israel in 1976, Wosner
studied piano with Emanuel Krasovsky in Tel Aviv. He studied
composition, theory and improvisation with André Hajdu, with
whom he has participated in improvisation concerts and activities. His
studies continued at the Juilliard School with Emanuel Ax.
All Tuesday Musical concerts are held at Witherspoon Concert Hall at Joslyn Art Museum, 2200 Dodge St. in Omaha, Neb. Listen and learn at 7:10 p.m. before each concert as Pat Will -- teacher, keyboard artist and Tuesday Musical program committee member -- briefs us on the concert to come. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Past Tuesday Musical artists have included such greats as Pablo Casals, Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Marian Anderson, Artur Rubenstein, Isaac Stern, Ezio Pinza, Rudolf Serkin, Roberta Peters, Van Cliburn, Itzak Perlman, Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jessye Norman, Midori, The Tokyo String Quartet, Denyce Graves, Andre Watts, Lang Lang and Gabriela Montero, to name but a few.