Santa Fe Events
Concerts
Spring 2010
Romantic Journeys
David Farwig, Baritone, and Kevin Kennedy, Piano
Friday, April 23, 8 p.m.
Great Hall, Peterson Student Center
David Farwig has been hailed as a lyric baritone with a unique and beautiful sound, unsurpassed clarity, flexibility, and deep expressivity. Joined by Kevin Kennedy on piano, Farwig offers a concert of vocal works by composers Stefano Donaudy, Robert Schumann, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Henri Duparc, and Carlos Gardel.
Bringing a full range of styles to the stage, Farwig has performed with various professional companies throughout the United States, including, in New Mexico, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and the Albuquerque Baroque Players. In 2003, Farwig was awarded the “Virginia Best Adams Fellowship” at the Carmel Bach Festival in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a nationally auditioned program that recognizes emerging professional soloists of Baroque literature. Farwig currently is working on a solo recording project of early Italian and Spanish songs and their influence on the development of the Argentine tango. Several of these songs are included in the evening’s program.
Kevin Kennedy has been a professional coach and accompanist in the Denver area for many years. He is currently a voice teacher at Red Rocks Community College and organist at Park Hill United Methodist Church in Denver. He has worked for Central City Opera, Opera Colorado, and the Colorado Symphony, and he was music director/conductor of the Colorado Ballet in 1992-1993. He maintains a private studio where he teaches voice and coaches singers, some with international careers.
Lunchtime Concerts
Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano and Violin
Ariel Winnick SF11, violin, and Peter Pesic, Piano
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 12:10 – 1:15 p.m.
Junior Common Room, Peterson Student Center
Op. 30, Nos. 2 and 3
Chopin: Mazurkas II
Peter Pesic, Piano
Thursday, April 8, 12:10 – 1:15 p.m.
Junior Common Room, Peterson Student Center
Opp. 59, 63, 67, 68, Opp. Post.
There is no charge for admission.
Larry Ham, Jazz Pianist
Tuesday, April 20, 7 p.m.
Great Hall, Peterson Student Center
Pianist, composer, and arranger Larry Ham has long been a noted New York jazz musician: performing, touring, and recording with many of today’s jazz greats. He is now gaining new recognition as an emerging artist, with the 2007 release of his debut CD “Carousel,” featuring his own compositions and unique arrangements, and a 2008 solo piano CD “Just Me, Just You…” recorded for Arbors Jazz. David Dupont of Cadence Jazz Magazine writes, “He glides over the keys, with every note articulated cleanly…his playing is masterful.” And Mike Neely in AllAboutJazz calls him “…a pianist well on his way to becoming a jazz master.”
Larry’s professional career began in the late ‘80s with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. He was pianist in the Illinois Jacquet Big Band, 1990-1995, and has worked extensively with countless other jazz legends including Junior Cook and Dakota Staton. He has appeared at jazz festivals, concerts, and nightclubs throughout the United States, Europe, West Africa, India and Japan. TV credits include two appearances on “The Today Show,” and he
has been featured on the NPR programs “Jazz Set with Dee Dee Bridgewater” and on Judy Carmichael’s “Jazz Inspired.” He performed at the White House for President Reagan and for President Clinton’s 1993 Inaugural Ball. Larry also represented the United States as a State Department Jazz Ambassador to West Africa in 2001/2002.
Larry received a BA in Musical Studies from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and an MA in Jazz Performance from Queens College in New York City. He will be performing with Mike Olivola on upright bass and John Trentacosta on drums, presenting a program of classic mainstream jazz music and some of Larry’s own unique compositions.
This event is free and open to the public