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February 24, 2012 7:30 PM Lady Slipper A Swinging Journey through the Early Masterworks (Asako's Jazz arrangements of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi Baroque and Jazz share improvisation and unexpected, swinging rhythmic patterns. This melding of musical millieu results in a fasci-nating new vernacular as these distant cousins meet. Ladyslipper joins forces with Percussionist Derrick Raiter and Bassist Dave Carbonara to bridge the centuries to create this unique Jazz-Baroque sound.
March 23, 2012 7:30 PM Womenperformhers Womenperformhers was formed in 1982 with the goal of performing and promoting the repertoire of music composed by women. For centuries the music of women composers was ignored, yet womenperformhers found a lot of quality music in this genre. Happily, in recent decades women composers have flourished, providing yet more music for us to present.
May 11, 2012 7:30 PM Third Annual Open Mic Night Back by popular demand, we are inviting YOU our audience to sharing your talents singing and/or playing in a concert of Pop/Rock music. Come and perform with Green Hornet (our Edina Public Schools faculty rock band)...or just come to listen. Amateurs Welcome! Please email Jim with your song request: jamhawthorne@edina.k12.mn.us
September 10, 2011 8:00 PM Caleb Hawley
February 3, 2012 7:30 PM Maria Jette and Young Nam Kim Maria Jette has appeared with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston, Kansas City, San Luis Obispo, Santa Rosa, Charlotte, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Austin and San Antonio Symphonies, New York Chamber Symphony and Portland Baroque Orchestra, and for many merry seasons with Ex Machina Antique Music Theatre in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis- St. Paul), where she's often heard locally with Vocalessence, Chamber Music Society of Minnesota and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. With conductor Helmuth Rilling, she’s sung Bach, Mozart and Haydn around the US, Germany, Spain, Venezuela, Japan and Canada. She’s performed her own production of Seuss/Kapilow’s Green Eggs & Ham for over 40,000 kids around the USA. She has been a regular guest over many seasons at the San Luis Obispo Mozart and Oregon Bach Festivals and the Oregon Festival of American Music, and is often heard nationally on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Young-Nam Kim: Noted by the New York Times for “sparkling virtuosity, strong colors and intense lyricism,” violinist Young-Nam Kim has appeared widely in the United States and Europe in summer festivals including Marlboro, Tanglewood, Colorado, Sion, Sienna; and as a soloist with orchestras including the Minnesota Orchestra and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; also in recitals in such venues as Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center. Other orchestras he appeared as a soloist include those of Alabama, Binghamtom, Brockton, Columbus, Detroit, Lausanne ( Switezerland) Rochester, Spokane, Syracuse and others. In addition to the standard repertoire, Mr. Kim has premiered more than fifty works by important composers of today. He also served on the jury of many competitions including the Lipizer International Violin Competition in Italy. Mr. Kim, who soloed with the Seoul Philharmonic while still in his early teens, moved to the United States while still in high school and studied primarily with Louis Krasner in Syracuse and Boston. His other teachers include Felix Galimir in New York and Zino Francescatti in Switzerland.
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