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 final concert of the 2007-08 season will feature soprano Nicole Cabell.
Tuesday, April 1,
2008
Nicole Cabell,
soprano
Nicole
Cabell was the 2005 winner of the BBC Singer of the World Competition
with her faultlessly gleaming soprano voice. Since then, she has fast
become one of today's most sought-after lyric sopranos. Her 2006-07
season included debuts at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Santa
Fe Opera, Opera de Montpellier, and concert performances with the Oslo
Philharmonic, Minnesota Symphony and Indianapolis Symphony. This year
she appears with the Metropolitan Opera, Opera Pacific and Lyric Opera,
to name a few.
Announcing our 2008-2009 season!
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 14,
2009
Kevin Kenner and
the Piazzoforte, quintet
At age 17, Kevin Kenner participated in the
International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and was awarded 10th
prize, along with a special prize for his promising talent. Ten years
later, in 1990, he returned to Warsaw to win the top prize, the
People's Prize and the Polonaise Prize. Earlier that year he won the
bronze medal at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in
Moscow, together with a special prize for his interpretation of Russian
music. Other awards include the International Terence Judd Award
(London, 1990), the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Fort
Worth, 1989) and the Gina Bachauer International Competition (Salt Lake
City, 1988). Kenner has since performed as soloist with orchestras
including the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra,
the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic
Brussels, the NHK Symphony of Japan, and in the United States with the
principal orchestras of San Francisco, San Diego, Salt Lake City,
Kansas City, New Jersey, Rochester, Baltimore, St. Paul and others. He
records regularly for the BBC in England, where he lives.
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.