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January/February 2012

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Concerts

Lunchtime Concerts

Schubert’s Chamber Music III
Ariel Winnick (SF11, SFGI12), violin, Meghan Kase (SF14), cello, Peter Pesic, piano
Friday, January 20, 12:10-1:15 p.m.
Junior Common Room, Peterson Student Center
There is no charge for admission

St. John’s students Ariel Winnick and Meghan Kase join Peter Pesic, musician-in-residence and tutor, in the third in a series of informal concerts devoted to the chamber music of Franz Schubert. The three will perform Schubert’s Adagio in E-flat major (“Notturno”, D.897), Violin Sonata in G minor, D.408, and Rondeau brilliant in B minor, D.895.

Ariel Winnick graduated from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, in 2011, and is now a graduate student in Eastern Classics at the Santa Fe campus. He enjoys playing classical music and traditional folk music of Appalachia, Ireland, and French Canada. He plays guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, musical saw, and spoons, and also writes music. Mr. Winnick has been spending time with distinguished musicians and scholars since 1987.

Meghan Kase is a sophomore at St. John’s College. She graduated from Central Bucks High School East in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, the Bucks County Festival Orchestra, and the Bucks County Youth Orchestra. She was also a member of the Sartoria Competition Award-winning MARAH Quartet and has studied under Sarah Yoon and Mary Pitcairn.

St. John’s College, Santa Fe, tutor and Musician-in-Residence Peter Pesic attended Harvard and Stanford Universities, obtaining a doctorate in Physics. He has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Mr. Pesic is also a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.

Evening Concerts

The Harlem Quartet
Ilmar Gavilán and Melissa White, violin, Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola, Paul Wiancko, cello
Friday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.
Great Hall, Peterson Student Center
$30 admission

The Harlem Quartet is a string quartet composed of first-place laureates of the Sphinx Competition for young Black and Latino string players. The quartet, formed in 2006, has as a mission to advance diversity in classical music while engaging young and new audiences through the discovery and presentation of varied repertoire, highlighting works by minority composers. They perform in chamber music series around the country, and made their debuts this season at two prestigious New York venues, playing with guitarist Eliot Fisk at the 92nd Street Y and with jazz pianist/composer Chick Corea at the Blue Note. The Harlem Quartet will release their fourth CD this season, a collaboration with the Chicago Sinfonietta featuring a new arrangement of West Side Story for string quartet and orchestra as well as works by Michael Abels and Benjamin Lee. For this St. John’s concert, the quartet will perform Mozart’s String Quartet in D Minor, K.421, Chick Corea’s The Adventures of Hippocrates, and Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, “Death and the Maiden”. This concert is a collaboration between St. John’s College and the Santa Fe Concert Association.

Peter Pesic, Solo Piano
Friday, February 3, 8:00 p.m.
Great Hall, Peterson Student Center
There is no charge for admission

St. John’s College, Santa Fe, tutor and Musician-in-Residence Peter Pesic will perform Stravinsky’s Serenade en la (1925) and Schubert’s Sonata in B flat, op. post. D.960.

Mr. Pesic attended Harvard and Stanford Universities, obtaining a doctorate in Physics. He has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Mr. Pesic is also a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.

The Manhattan Piano Trio
Milana Strezeva, piano, Wayne Lee, violin, Dmitry Kouzov, cello
Friday, February 24, 8 p.m.
Great Hall, Peterson Student Center
There is no charge for admission

The Manhattan Piano Trio will perform Brahms’ Piano Trio no. 1 in B major, op. 8,, Ravel’s Trio for piano, violin, and cello, and Iranian-born composer Behzad Ranjbaran’s “Shiraz”.

Hailed by critics as “a grand departure from the usual,” the Manhattan Piano Trio has quickly become one of the most creative, exciting, and dynamic young ensembles in the United States. With more than 500 performances since its inception in 2004, the Trio is one of the most active groups in the classical music scene, welcomed by enthusiastic audiences in over 35 American states, Italy, South Africa, and Australia.

Strongly committed to educating new generations of musicians and music lovers, the Manhattan Piano Trio is adept at weaving informative talks into its performances, thereby imparting greater musical insight and emotional clarity to its audiences. As part of the community rebuilding effort in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the trio was one of the first musical groups to perform in the city and was honored to give a benefit concert at the University of New Orleans.

The trio are all award winning soloists in their own right. Since its inception in 2004, the Manhattan Piano Trio has captured grand prizes at the Plowman Competition and at the Yellow Springs Competition; runner-up at the Chesapeake Competition; and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Listeners’ Choice Award in Melbourne.

Julian Pollack Trio
Julian Waterfall Pollack, piano, Noah Garabedian, bass, Evan Hughes, drums
Presented in conjunction with Friends of Santa Fe Jazz and Santa Fe Concert Association
Saturday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.
Great Hall, Peterson Student Center
$30-$75 admission, limited number of tickets free for St. John’s students, faculty, and staff; tickets available at the Lensic box office, 505-988-1234, www.lensic.org

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