Puerto RicoCollaborative

Piano Institute Celebrating Our Multicultural Heritage

Díaz-Del Moral Foundation presents

June 12-18, 2021

Lectures, Recitals, Workshops, Wellness Sessions, & Competitions

PRCPI logo designed by Tony Ward (tonywardarts.com)

2021 PRCPI booklet created by Caitlyn Henson

Jessica Koebbe - Directorinfo@puertoricocpi.org

Stacie Haneline - Fundraising/Sponsorship

underwriting@puertoricocpi.org

Gina Hart-Kemper - Competitioncompetitions@puertoricocpi.org

Anatolia Ioannides - Fundraising & External Relationsunderwriting@puertoricocpi.org

Kowoon Lee - Social Mediaadvertising@puertoricocpi.org

Grace Odell- Operationslogistics@puertoricocpi.org

Anna Keiserman - Fundraising/Sponsorship

underwriting@puertoricocpi.org

Darwin Cosme Sanchez - Artistic & ExecutiveDirector

Díaz-Del Moral Foundation

Base Academy of MusicKansas City Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota*

Notes for GrowthOdell Music Institute

Warren Henry*Liina KeerdojaDonna LeacockJanet Noddings

Rachael PateMartin Rokeach

Dana SloanGary and Elaine Smythe

David Wiegand*

*Competition Prize Sponsor

Additional funding from Thrivent Action Team Grants

Claudia AlvaradoIlka Araujo

Ilana Joyce Cady*Jeremy ChanI-Ching ChenJiwon Choi*

Teresa EngelmannNatalia Vanegas Escobar*

Roberto FariasCatherine H. Garner*

Emily Grabinski*Danielle Guina

Emily HohZoe House*

Ana Maria Janunzzi de Salles

PRCPI is pleased to offer two international competitions: the International Collegiate Competition (open to anyundergraduate student: 1st place: $500, 2nd place: $250, 3rd place: $100) and the International Collaborative PianoCompetition (open to any graduate student, professional, or amateur pianist: 1st place: $500, 2nd place: $250, 3rd

place: $100).PRCPI also welcomes auditors as participants in our week of events.

Soyeon KimAudrey Lee

Abigail Lyon*Christina Mathis

Angela Louise MansoEmily Mar

Fernando Marrufo*Claire MarquardtCeylon Mitchell

Jamie Namminga*Jeremy Reger

Graziela SebbaYimeng Xu*

Niki YTingting Yao*

Rachel Zimmerman

*Denotes Competitor

Effie Agrafioti is a distinguished Greek pianist, writer, and piano teacher. She studiedmusic and political science in Athens. She continued with graduate studies in pianoperformance at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and attended privatelessons and master courses with great soloists such as Nikita Magaluf, Paul BaduraSkoda and Claudio Arrau.

Since 1978, she has been involved with the research and performance of pianoworks by Greek composers. Her discography includes three vinyl albums and fourCD recordings.

In 2019, she released the double CD "Greek Muse” with the soprano MyrsiniMargaritis, followed by two CDS with solo works entitled "Sounds from the Drawer"in 2021. All are produced by the record label Irida Classical and received wonderfulreviews and were included on the program of a number of classical radio stations allover Europe.

Effie Agrafioti maintains an active career as a performer in Greece andinternationally. She has performed in numerous international concert venues inJapan, Russia and Ukraine, Turkey, the Nordic countries, Edinburgh, Reykjavik andcentral Europe, as well as in Canada (Montreal and Ottawa). Her repertoire rangeincludes collaborations in jazz music, with jazz pianist Giorgos Kontrafouris .

Since the year 2000, Effie Agrafioti has been researching, promoting, and performingthe piano music of female composers, with special focus on works by femalecomposers from Greece and the Greek diaspora. A prolific writer and researcherEffie Agrafioti is the author of "Isn't Music Female?" published in 2004. She haswritten two books on solo piano repertoire and a monograph on Georgian pianist/pedagogue Aristotle Kudurov, piano teacher of Ioannis Xenakis and VangelisPapathanasiou.

Venezuelan Native Maria Gabriela (Gaby) Alvarado is a modern and baroqueflutist with a passion for bringing classical music to nontraditional spaces. Hermission is to make classical music accessible and relatable to those who might nototherwise experience it.

Gaby has worked in the performing arts community as a facilitator, grant panelist,educator, speaker, and consultant. She enjoys collaborating on numerouschamber music projects. Through her teaching, recitals, and collaborations, shebrings to life music of underrepresented composers. She has appeared as a guestartist all over the U.S, South America, and Europe. Gaby is currently working onher Doctorate in Musical Arts in Flute Performance with Dr. Mary Karen Clardy.

Ms. Alvarado is the Manager of Community and Patron Engagement for theSphinx Organization, serves as the Texas Flute Society’s vice president, and is aboard member of the International Alliance for Women Music and AdvisoryCouncil on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of North Texas. Whennot performing or researching for her next upcoming project, she enjoysspending time taking care of her plants, watching Netflix, and raising awarenessfor Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.

Duo Barrenechea is comprised of flutist Sergio Barrenechea and his wife, pianistLucia Barrenechea. They have performed since 1989 in numerous cities in theAmericas, Europe and Asia. The Duo has a special predilection for erudite andpopular Brazilian music. Its purpose is to explore the vast repertoire for flute andpiano, including Brazilian composers such as Dawid Korenchendler, RodrigoCicchelli, Vittor Santos, Arthur Verocai, Estércio Marquez Cunha, AlexandreLunsqui, Rafael dos Santos, Fernando Morais, Liduino Pitombeira, Sérgio Robertode Oliveira, Marcos Vieira Lucas, Neder Nassaro, José Orlando Alves, amongothers. Lucia and Sergio, besides musicians with intense artistic activity, areprofessors and researchers who invest in the formation of young musicians inartistic and academic areas and in projects related to the interpretive practicesand Brazilian music.

Christine Erlander Beard enjoys an active international career as a soloist, chamberartist and teacher with engagements throughout North and South America andEurope. An artist for Sankyo Flutes and Hernandez Flutes, she serves the NFA as amember of the Scholarship Committee and contributing editor to The FlutistQuarterly. Second Prize winner in the 2019 American Prize Professional Soloistdivision competition, she is a member of Whole Musician and Professor of Flute &Music and Coordinator of Woodwind Studies at the University of Nebraska atOmaha. She launched #theflutistactivitst initiative – commissioning composers towrite pieces inspired by social justice issues – in 2019. www.christiebeard.com

Born and raised in Chicago, violinist Sandy Choi has been praised by the Washington Post forher “assured, sinuous” playing, and by local critics for her “dazzling brilliance.” An activefreelance artist, she has performed with a wide range of ensembles including the AlexandriaSymphony Orchestra, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project,Inscape Chamber Orchestra, New Orchestra of Washington, Emmanuel Music, Santa BarbaraSymphony, Southwest Florida Symphony, Urban Arias, Washington Concert Opera, and theWolf Trap Orchestra.

Comfortable in many genres, Sandy Choi has shared the stage with a wide range of artistsincluding Diana Krall, Andrea Bocelli, and members of The Who, and has had the privilege ofperforming in some of the world’s greatest concert halls including Carnegie Hall, the KennedyCenter, Chicago Symphony Center, Boston Symphony Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, andthe Teatro Communale di Firenze in Italy. She has appeared on albums by virtuoso violinist,Rachel Barton Pine, as well as indie rock singer-songwriter, Laura Tsaggaris.

In addition to her work as a freelance orchestral artist, Sandy has also performed over thelast five years as a member of Balance Campaign, a Washington DC-based contemporarynew music ensemble dedicated to commissioning and performing the works ofunderrepresented composers. She also serves as the Community Engagement and DigitalMedia Manager for the DC Youth Orchestra Program, the region’s premier youth musiceducation program.

A nerd at heart with a love for foreign languages, she holds two Bachelor of Science degreesin Economics and Music from MIT, where she was an Emerson fellow and winner of the MITSymphony Concerto Competition. Sandy also earned a Master’s Degree in InternationalAffairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, after which shewas awarded a prestigious competitive fellowship to study at the Center for Arabic StudiesAbroad (CASA) program at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Sandy currently resides inWashington, DC.

Puerto Rican mezzo-soprano Fabiana González is quickly gaining attentionthroughout the United States and Europe for her “superb combination of tonalwarmth and rhetorical directness” (San Francisco Chronicle). She received abachelor’s degree from the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico and a Master’sDegree in Early Music at Yale University under the tutelage of James Taylor. She iscurrently completing a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree at the University of NorthTexas where she has worked closely with vocal pedagogy expert Stephen Austin. Inthe fall of 2015, Ms. González received a research grant from the University ofNorth Texas to study with Bavarian fortepiano virtuoso, Christoph Hammer inAugsburg, Germany. She currently resides in San Juan, Puerto Rico where sheteaches voice and vocal pedagogy at the San Juan Children’s Choir and at theUniversity of Puerto Rico. In 2016 she sang a series of solo concerts as part of atour of Finland which included a solo performance in the Aino Acktén ChamberMusic Festival. She has performed with the Dallas Bach Society and thePhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco as well as with the LeopoldMozart Zentrum Orchestra in Augsburg, Germany. Several chamber-musichighlights include performances with The Rose Ensemble in collaboration with theMinnesota Orchestra and concert tours of Germany, Austria, Croatia, Peru, andPuerto Rico with the Fantasmi Ensemble. She has sung under the baton of MasaakiSuzuki, Andrew Megill, Dale Warland, Simon Halsey, James O’Donnell, SimonCarrington, James Richman, Richard Sparks, and Paul Leenhouts. She hasperformed with vocal ensembles including Orfeón San Juan Bautista, Yale ScholaCantorum, UNT Collegium Singers, the Thirteen Choir, Choral Pickup, and the SouthDakota Chorale.

Admired for her consummate skill and for her “musical excellence which isovershadowed only by her generous spirit and kindness to her colleagues” (ThomasWilkins, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Boston Symphony and Omaha Symphony),pianist Stacie Haneline maintains an active career as a pianist in symphonic,chamber, opera, vocal and instrumental repertoire. A versatile musician, she hasperformed as a pianist for the Sydney Opera House, New York City Opera, KennedyCenter, Hawaii Opera, Virginia Symphony, Virginia Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music,University of Australia, Brevard Music Center, Omaha Symphony and Opera Omahato name a few.

Recent performance highlights include the Zodiac Chamber Festival in Nice, France;the premiere of Leslie Adams Dunbar Songs, at the African-American Arts SongAlliance with soprano Gail Robinson-Oturu; and an evening with Broadway LegendKimilee Bryant at the Venetian Arts Society in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. An establishedcollaborator with Nebraska-based soprano, Jamie Reimer, the two were honoredperformers at the African American Arts Song Alliance featuring Robert Owens’ 4Sonnets to Duse. The team recorded music of Robert Owens’ which is set to bereleased in November 2020 by Centaur Records. Active recitalists, Reimer andHaneline perform regularly throughout the United States. The duo are also dedicatedto cutting-edge research on collaborative partnerships between singers and pianists.Reimer and Haneline have been invited to present their findings at conferences inStockholm, Sweden and Reykjavik, Iceland, and National Association of Teachers ofSinging Conventions throughout the U.S.A.

Stacie also frequently joins flutist Christine Beard with whom she has performed atflute festivals in Ecuador, Honduras, Italy and France, Puerto Rico, as well asnumerous recitals and concert series in the United States. The two advocate for

performances of compositions featuring the piccolo and flute which speaks to socialjustice issues. Stacie’s avid accomplishments as a chamber artist garnered herrecognition as a semi-finalist for the coveted American Prize in Chamber Music in2016.

Ms. Haneline’s arts administration experience extends nationally as the formerExecutive Director of the Omaha Chamber Music Society and Artistic Director ofVesper Concert Series. Stacie created numerous opportunities for artists to performthroughout the midwest. Stacie is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music andConverse College. As the Coordinator for the Collaborative Piano program at theUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha she also serves as the collaborative pianist forvisiting artists, faculty, and ensembles.

Gina Hart-Kemper performs and teaches in the Kansas City metro area. A graduateof Wichita State University, Gina continued her education earning the Master ofMusic and Doctoral of Musical Arts degrees at The University of Michigan. She hasperformed with orchestras, chamber groups, and collaborative solo recitals, andhas been a guest artist and teacher at concerts, schools, and festivals throughoutthe U.S. Currently, she is instructor of flute and music classes at Mid-AmericaNazarene University in Olathe, Kansas; and enjoys teaching a music class throughFort Scott Community College as well. Gina performs with the St. Joseph SymphonyOrchestra (piccolo/flute), and is Music Director for the Kansas City Flute Choir. Shealso serves on the board of the Village Music Academy in Prairie Village where shecontinues to teach flute lessons. Gina also keeps busy with concert and masterclassopportunities, especially in the mid-west area. Her passion and energy for sharingmusic and education has kept her in demand as a performer and teacher withstudents, teachers, and music enthusiasts wherever she has traveled.

A recognized leader in contemporary music advocacy, pianist Elizabeth G. Hill hasled and performed in the D.C. area’s most prominent ensembles, and is also knownfor her work as a solo performer, educator, and lecturer. A highly-regarded artist,she has performed lecture-recitals and concerts in thirteen US states and in Europe,including for the Embassy Concert Series in Washington DC, the Center for JewishHistory in New York, and the Robert-Schumann-Haus in Zwickau, Germany.

Elizabeth dedicates much of her career to bridging cultures through music, andrealizes this vision through her leadership within three prominent chamberensembles within the Washington, D.C. area. Her duo Meraki, which she co-foundedin 2016, focuses on performing culturally essential music, and has performed ineight U.S. states and held residencies at three universities. Recently, the ensembleperformed at New Music DC 2019, where it premiered Jerod Tate’s “HelohaOkchamali” as an honoree of Chamber Music America’s Classical CommissioningProgram. In 2017, Elizabeth joined the ensemble, Balance Campaign, a group whosefocus lies exclusively on commissioning and performing works by underrepresentedcomposers. Elizabeth helps promote the advancement of contemporary music inthe DC area through serving as an administrator of the District New Music Coalition.Outside of these ventures, she continues to devote herself to the performance ofcontemporary works: recent premieres of new work include at D.C.’s Fringe Festival,New Music D.C., and with the Great Noise Ensemble at the West Fork New MusicFestival in Fairmont, WV.

In the 2020-21 season, Elizabeth is looking forward to numerous virtualperformances, including digital solo concerts, chamber performances with Merakiand Balance Campaign, appearances as a Performance Ambassador for theBoulanger Initiative, and performances for the National Philharmonic chamberseries. Elizabeth is also thrilled to serve as Artist-In-Residence this season for the

Music of Grace Concert Series in Silver Spring, Maryland. Through her residency,she will assist in curating an entirely virtual season of performances that promotesdiversity through programming and their featured artists.

As an educator, Dr. Hill is grateful to have received a recent appointment on theCollaborative Piano Faculty at the HeifetzPEG International Music Institute. She hasbeen an active pedagogue since 2010, and holds teaching positions with theHarmonia School of Music and Arts as well as Opal Music Studio, where herstudents have received numerous awards and honors, including acceptance intoprestigious music schools across the country. Furthermore, Elizabeth is alsoknown as a scholar of solo piano and chamber works, having given numerouslecture recitals and presentations. Her most recent topic, “Chamber Music in Exile”,is an exploration of the intimate musical narratives composed by émigrécomposers of the World War II era. Her other presentations vary widely, and haveincluded talks on the composers Haydn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Leoš Janáček,and Mieczysław Weinberg.

Originally raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Elizabeth holds degrees from Mary BaldwinCollege (B.A.), James Madison University (M.M.), and The Catholic University ofAmerica (D.M.A. with a specialization in Chamber Music). Her principal instructorsof piano include Drs. Lise Keiter, Eric Ruple, Gabriel Dobner, and Ralitza Patcheva.Elizabeth is based in Washington D.C.

Anatolia Ioannides maintains a versatile career as a pianist, teacher, and creative artsentrepreneur. Praised for her “unfailingly skilled and sympathetic collaboration”(Scott Cantrell/The Dallas Morning News) and "warm deep-in-the-keys touch” (LynnRene Bayley/The Art Music Lounge), she is a sought-after chamber music partner,collaborative pianist, and coach.

She has performed in many national and international venues and festivals and hasserved as staff pianist for the Piatigorsky International Seminar for Cellists, UNT-ClarEssentials Workshop, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and has performed for theJugend Musiziert Wettbewerb, the Women in Music Composers’ Conference, VocesIntimae Art Song series, USC-Visions, Voices, and KUSC- Sundays Live with the RickTodd’s USC Wind and Percussion Ensemble.

As Artistic Director and Founder of the chamber ensemble Cmc3+, she producedschool and community outreach programs in arts education.

She has developed and performed cross-disciplinary performances, "Art andHellenism”, in collaboration with the Consul General of Greece and LoyolaMarymount University (2004) and at the University of Southern California’s FischerMuseum of Art in conjunction with US Ambassador Donald Bandler’s photographyexhibit, “A Roving Eye on Cyprus” (2008).

She is also one of four leading pianists in the world premiere of the commissionedperformance and multichannel video exhibition “Piano Destructions”, by theFrankfurt and London based artist Andrea Büttner, produced at the Walter PhillipsGallery and the Banff Centre in Canada (2014).

A member of Music Teachers National Association and the Royal Conservatory ofMusic Certificate Program, she is in strong demand as adjudicator for young artist

festivals and competitions. Dr. Ioannides currently serves on the piano faculty ofSoutheastern Oklahoma State University. She is on the faculty of the University ofNorth Texas-Summer String Institute and Solo/ Collaborative Piano Program andteaches pre-collegiate piano students at her private studio in Dallas, Texas.

She is the founder and director of the workshop “We Play Better Together”,dedicated to providing coaching and performance opportunities in instrumental andvocal chamber music to pre-collegiate performers in the Dallas Metroplex area.She is the pianist and co-founder of TrioPolis, an ensemble dedicated to thepromotion of new works and forging innovating, interdisciplinary collaborationsacross the performing arts, with UNT faculty clarinetist Kimberly Cole and violinistFelix Olschofka.

She serves on the Leadership team of the International Keyboard Collaborative ArtsSociety (IKCAS) and as the organization’s Membership Coordinator. She is a memberof the Artistic Committee-Fundraising and External Relations for the Puerto RicoCollaborative Piano Institute.

Anatolia Ioannides completed her graduate degrees in Keyboard Collaborative Artsunder the guidance of Kevin Fitz-Gerald at the USC-Thornton School of Music. Herteachers and mentors include pedagogues Thalia Mira, Aris Garoufalis, LevVlassenko, Kostantin and Julia Ganev, Alfons Kontarsky, George Kern, Raymond SeeBernadene Blaha, Alan Smith; she has had the privilege to receive instruction fromand perform in master class for pianists Lambert Orkis, Hamish Milne, JeromeLowenthal, Peter Takacs, Gilbert Kalish, Rita Sloan, Ann Epperson.

Ilana graduated with a Master’s of Music in piano performance from the LongySchool of Music of Bard College in May 2017, under the direction of LeslieAmper. During her time at Longy she performed at Pickman Hall, SandersTheater at Harvard University, and the Dante Allegheri Society in Cambridge. Shehas collaborated with Longy's Side by Side El Sistema program and the BostonCello quartet. Being involved with Longy’s chamber program, Ilana had theprivilege to work extensively with Robert Merfeld.

She has performed solo and chamber works for the master classes of PeterSerkin, Frank Levy, Denis Kozhukhin, Wayman Chin, Randall Hodgkinson, Rolandand Almita Vamos, Ming Feng Hsin and Wen Qian, Jennifer Koh, and DylanaJenson.

Recently Ilana embarked on a collaborative journey by co-founding, Table forTwo | A Piano Duo, with fellow pianist Linda Chavez. The duo debuted in Graz,Austria at the Styriarte festival as winners of the Lunchkonzerte competition.They have also toured in Texas, Vermont and Massachusetts. They have beeninvited to attend a Teaching Artist at the Lincoln Center in NYC, summer 2017. Ilana graduated Summa Cum Laude, from Andrews University, Berrien Springs,MI, May 2015 with her BMUS in Piano Performance. She spent time during thesummer of 2014 at Brevard Music Institute studying with Jihye Chang.

She graduated with distinction, as a JN Andrews Scholar from the AndrewsUniversity Honors program and in 2014 she completed her undergraduatehonors thesis, “A Composition Project: An Original 12-tone Fugue Modeled afterJ.S. Bach’s BWV 847” and was awarded a research scholarship from the EarhartFoundation Emerging Scholars Program. She presented the project at multipleconferences in the Michigan area.

Ilana was a winner of the 2012 and 2014 Young Artist Competition at AndrewsUniversity, and performed MacDowell’s Piano Concerto No. 2 Larghetto Calmatoand Brahms’ Concerto No. 1 Maestoso respectively, with the Andrews UniversitySymphony Orchestra. She joined the Joy Of Music Program faculty in July of 2017.

Jessica Koebbe is Instructor of Piano at MidAmerica Nazarene University whereshe teaches private lessons in addition to coordinating the keyboard skillsprogram. She is active as a soloist and collaborative pianist, performingfrequently with internationally-recognized instrumentalists including those fromthe Fort Worth, Kansas City, Omaha, Topeka, and Santa Fe Symphonies as well aswith singers from the Fort Worth, Nashville, and Cincinnati opera companies. Sheenjoys combining her loves of travel and music, performing and teaching mostrecently in Europe and Taiwan. She currently serves as the director of the PuertoRico Collaborative Piano Institute and is a member of the Wellness Committeefor the Puerto Rico Flute Symposium.

In addition to her current position, Jessica has held faculty and graduateteaching positions at Kansas State University, Texas Wesleyan University, and theUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree fromthe University of Kansas (summa cum laude), a Master of Music degree fromTexas Christian University, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from theUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance. She is the creator of “Mindful Music Pedagogy”(www.mindfulmusicpedagogy.com), a resource based on her doctoral researchthat addresses performance anxiety in children, and frequently presentsworkshops and lectures designed to help teachers and students work throughor prevent performance anxiety.

Lauren Koszyk currently maintains a versatile career as a collaborative pianist inthe Dallas-Fort Worth area with particular emphasis in opera and opera coaching.In addition to her work at the piano, Ms. Koszyk’s background includes training inharpsichord, fortepiano, and organ. She has been named a Who’s Who inAmerican Universities and Colleges and has been awarded top honors by theGovernor of Illinois and the President of Illinois State University. In 2018 Ms.Koszyk was invited by Steinway Hall Dallas to tour the Steinway & Sons Factory inAstoria, New York.

With an affinity for opera coaching, Ms. Koszyk has worked with the MidwestInstitute of Opera (MIO) since its inception in 2011. Through her work with MIOshe has prepared and performed complete productions of La bohème, Lescontes d’Hoffmann, Dialogues of the Carmelites, L’enfant et les sortilèges, TheBeautiful Bridegroom, Suor Angelica, and The Pirates of Penzance. Valuing theimportance of opera outreach, Ms. Koszyk has given outreach performances as apart of the MIOperatunities program and has been the Midwest Institute ofOpera Children’s Chorus pianist, aiding in the preparation of productions ofCarmen and Hänsel und Gretel. Ms. Koszyk has also worked with Illinois FestivalOpera, coaching and performing complete productions of The Old Maid and theThief and Gianni Schicchi. She has been honored to accompany masterclassesgiven by renowned Metropolitan Opera soprani Angela Brown and YvonneRedman.

Ms. Koszyk has received numerous grants to give presentations or performancesat the Music Teachers National Association National Conference, Illinois StateMusic Teachers Association State Conference, Music Teachers NationalAssociation Collegiate Symposium, National Federation of Music Clubs OrpheusClub, the inaugural Dream Big: Music Out Loud Collaborative Piano Conference

the summer of 2021. Actively involved in the development of the world’s firstprofessional association for collaborative pianists, she currently serves asTreasurer for the International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society.

Lauren Koszyk earned her Master of Music in Collaborative Piano with a relatedfield in Early Music from the University of North Texas where she was awarded aTeaching Assistantship, Graduate Assistantship, and the Carl and MargaretEastman Scholarship for American Students. From Illinois State University sheearned her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Bachelor of Arts inGerman, both summa cum laude. Her principal teachers include Dr. StevenHarlos, Dr. Elvia Puccinelli, and Ms. Andrea Molina.

Ms. Koszyk has been inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda and Delta Phi Alpha, thenational music and German honor societies, respectively. Throughout hertraining, Ms. Koszyk has had the privilege to play for Jean Barr, Michael Brown,Jonathan Feldman, Margo Garrett, Martin Katz, Kathleen Kelly, and others inmasterclasses. In addition, she has coached with Tom Cipullo and Alan L. Smithas a part of CollabFest, the world’s first free-standing collaborative pianoconference, of which she is currently Assistant to the Artistic Director. Ms. Koszykhas undergone additional training at Salzburg College where she performed inrecitals collaborating with Universität Mozarteum colleagues. She has also studiedat The Collaborative Piano Institute on scholarship, The Business of Being aPianist Workshop at McKendree University, and will join Musiktheater Bavaria inOberaudorf, Germany as a pianist during

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Luis Marín began studying piano at the age of seven.At 20, Luis went on to study at Berklee College of Music, working on his naturalcraftmanship with Bill Davis, Ray Santisi and Jeff Covell.

Looking for professional experience, he took the Latin scene on by storm andimmediately started displaying his talent with such Jazz and Salsa icons as AndyMontañez, Cheo Feliciano, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Celia Cruz, Willie Colón, OscarD'León, Luis Enrique, Fania All Stars, Puerto Rico All Stars, Descarga Boricua,Orquesta del Día Nacional de la Salsa, Juan Luis Guerra, Victor Manuelle, RubenBlades, Eddie Palmieri, Papo Lucca, Richie Ray, Marc Anthony, Bobby Valentín,Roberto Rohena, Tito Nieves, Jose Alberto "El Canario", Mickey Taveras, JohnnyRivera, Grupo Niche, Yuri Buenaventura, Grupo Galé, David Sanchez, Justo Almario,Ignacio Berroa, Eddie Gomez, Kenny Werner, Mario Bauzá, Tito Puente, ChickCorea, Dave Valentin, Chucho Valdés, Mario Rivera, Israel "Cachao" López, EddiePalmieri, Giovanni Hidalgo, Brian Lynch, Edsel Gómez, Jerry Medina, BobbySanabria, Orestes Vilató, Batacumbele, Humberto Ramirez, William Cepeda, MandyVizoso, Carmen Delia Dipiní, Gilberto Monroig, Fernando Alvarez, Lucy Fabery,Cucco Peña, Lucecita Benitez, Yolandita Monge, Ednita Nazario, Lourdes Robles,Marta Sanchez, Maridalia Hernandez, Adagilsa Pantaleón, Chucho Avellanet, Lunna,Danny Rivera, Fiel a la Vega, Tego Calderón, Don Omar, Daddy Yanquee, JuliosVoltio and Tito "El Bambino", among others, on both live presentations and musicalrecordings.

In 1999 Luis Marin recorded his first album in the jazz scene, "Inconsolable", whichwas received by the critics as one of the most important jazz albums in the localscene. In 2003 Luis released a live recorded album "Live at Niuyorican Cafe Vol II"which has been reissued in digital distribution on major outlets around the world.

His third release "The One" showcases his talent on a magical trip of diverse musicalinfluences, exciting and introspective rhythms, and heartfelt melodic and harmonicmessages.

For many years, Luis Marin shared his music and knowledge teaching at the PuertoRico Conservatory of Music, in which he served as Department Chair and as anactive piano jazz, ensembles and Big Band teacher. Nowadays he is a recognizedclinician in the US and Latin American academic circuit, and a sought-after pianist inthe popular music market as well.

Greek-born soprano Myrsini Margariti, is a versatile singer with a very widerepertoire, including works from baroque to contemporary music. She is praised bythe critics for her profound musicality, virtuosity, clarity of sound and striking stagepresence: “Her voice is extremely versatile, includes wonderfully lyrical as highdramatic register” – NDR Kultur, “Whether threading delicate lines, singing withattack or brilliant coloratura relish, she also encompassed the emotional range ofthis programme.” - The telegraph, “Her stage presence is regal.” --classicalsource.com

Current season highlights include the title role in "Alcina" in a tour in Germany andSwitzerland and Anastasio (Giustino) at the Handel Festival Goettingen in Germany,both under W. Katschner and Lautten Compagney , Handel's Messiah under GeorgePetrou, a world Premiere of the contemporary piece by M. E. Ioannou in Cyprus,and many concerts and recitals.

Previous highlights of her career include appearances at Bozar/Brussels, the BBCPROMS, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Valetta Baroque Festival, Malta, HandelFestival Halle, Germany. As a concert singer she has performed in Indonesia, China,Malta, Greece, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Mexico, England, Hungary,Belgium, and the Netherlands. In January and February 2018, she sang the role ofLaodice in “Siroe” with the Nederlandse Reisopera, touring several opera houses inNetherlands.

She began her career singing the role of Serpetta in a production directed by DorrisDoerrie (La finta giardiniera – Landestheater Salzburg in cooperation with theInternational Salzburg Festival).

From 2006 to 2009 Myrsini Margariti was a member of the ensemble at the HalleOpera in Germany, where she performed several roles: Pamina (Die Zauberflöte),Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Euridice (L' Orfeo), Wellgunde(Das Rheingold), Xenia (Boris Godunov), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Tebaldoand Voce dal cielo (Don Carlo) a.o. Guest appearances include Theaters of Erfurt, Darmstadt, Oldenburg (Germany),Winterthur, Schaffhausen, Vills, Olten (Swiss), Megaron Athens, International Athens& Epidaurus Festival, Greek National Opera, Onassis Cultural Center, TheaterHerodes Atticus a.o. in roles such as Elle (La voix humaine), Micaela (Carmen),Contessa and Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Armida (Rinaldo), Morgana and Alcina(Alcina), Drusilla (L‘ incoronazione di Poppea) , Angelica (Orlando Furioso) , Despina(Cosi fan tutte), Clorinda (Cenerentola), Sylvia (L' isola disabitata), Coryphee (Alceste),Laodice (Hasse's Siroe), Salome (Stradella's San Giovanni), Valencienne (Die LustigeWitwe), and Johanna (Sweeney Todd).

She studied voice and violin at the National Conservatory in Athens and receivedher Bachelor’s Degree in Musicology from the University of Athens. She completedtwo Master’s Degrees in “Lied and Oratorio” and "Opera and Musical Theater" withthe highest honors, at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. During her studies shewas granted with the “Alexander Onassis Foundation” and the “Juergen PontoStiftung” Scholarship. Since 2017 she has served as professor at the AthensConservatory and artistic director of the annual "Lied Festival" of the conservatory.

Dr. Patricio Molina’s talents have been recognized by a number of people,institutions and competitions, including The New York Times which described himas “a gifted artist”. At the age of three, a nationally televised performance drew theattention of the University of Chile, who was quick to recognize his talents andaward him a full scholarship.

A Chilean-born pianist and composer, Patricio Molina has appeared in a wide rangeof venues around the world including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Borden Auditoriumat the Manhattan School of Music, New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), theTeatro Municipal of Chile, Odeon Amphitheater in Jordan and in television media;PBS, Chilean National TV, NBC, among others, and numerous publications.

As a pianist, Patricio has been invited by NJPAC to play prelude concerts for LangLang, Anne Sophie Mutter, Lorin Maazel, The New York Philharmonic, JacquesLacombe, and The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. He has performed forPresident Bachelet of Chile, King Abdullah of Jordan, and Pavarotti.

Patricio has also appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Chile, in the Middle Eastand in the United States. His album “From Los Andes to The Alps” features themusic of Schumann and Brahms and is available on iTunes.

Patricio’s compositions embrace a variety of works, from a set of easy piano piecesfor beginners to a fully orchestrated three-act ballet entitled “Chiloé” and a fullyorchestrated three-act opera entitled “La Sargento de la Concepción”. Other originalworks by Patricio include choral and chamber music. Stories, poetry, and his Syrian-Chilean heritage often serve as inspiration. He has premiered his compositions onstages such as Carnegie Hall, the New York Athletic Club, Instituto Cervantes NYC,the Newark School of the Arts, and NJPAC.

Patricio completed his master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music under theguidance of Dr. Marc Silverman. He completed the first and only double doctorate atRutgers University, a D.M.A in Piano Performance with Dr. Min Kwon in 2019 and aPh.D. in Music Composition with Dr. Robert Aldridge in 2020.

Today, Dr. Molina enjoys the position of Music Director at Saint Thomas the Apostle inBloomfield, New Jersey where he writes new music for the children and adult choirs,plays the organ for weekend masses, and organizes concerts and special events.

He also serves as Director of the Kathy and Mark Grier Conservatory at NewarkSchool of the Arts where he teaches courses in music history, composition, and givesprivate lessons in his piano studio. Patricio is an Adjunct Professor at Passaic CountyCommunity College.

When not composing, concertizing, or teaching, Patricio engages in outreachendeavors that bring music to young people. Patricio is the co-founder and presidentof Notes for Growth Inc., a non-profit foundation that gives musical instruments tounderprivileged children. He has served as a teaching artist and motivational speakerin several New Jersey public schools, where he shares his knowledge and passion formusic as well as his autobiographical message of encouragement for all children whowish to find success despite adversity.

Since her orchestral debut at age twelve, Venezuelan pianist Ana María Otamendihas performed as a soloist, collaborative pianist, and conductor with renownedorchestras and at important venues such as Chicago Symphony Hall, Spivey Hall,Teatro Teresa Carreño (Caracas, Venezuela), Salzburg Domesaal, Megaron MousikisConcert Hall (Athens), Parco de la musica (Rome), Teatro Arcimboldi (Milano), TeatroOdeum (Patras), as well as many other venues in Austria, Panama, Brazil, Venezuela,the United States, Spain, Italy, and Greece. Over 300 collaborative performances withrenowned artists such as Donald Sinta, Michelle DeYoung, Paul Groves, Ana MaríaMartinez, Alexis Cárdenas, members of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra,Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Pittsburgh Orchestra,Dallas Symphony, Dallas Opera Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, and many more.

After finishing her two-year tenure as Studio Artist at the prestigious Houston GrandOpera Studio, as well as the Merola Opera Program of the San Francisco Opera, shebecame the Head Vocal Coach of the Moores Opera Center at the University ofHouston. Currently, she is the Janice Harvey Pellar Assistant Professor ofCollaborative Piano at Louisiana State University, where she is the head of thecollaborative piano program. She is the Artistic Director of the Collaborative PianoInstitute, an intensive three-week summer program devoted to collaborative pianists,that counts with stellar faculty, such as Martin Katz, Rita Sloan, Kathleen Kelly, Marie-France Lefebvre, Howard Watkins, and many more. She is also pianist and foundingmember of the Reverón Piano Trio (a Venezuelan ensemble devoted to the standard,modern, and Latin American piano trio repertoire), and the Aelia Duo (with pianistElena Lacheva). She was Head Coach and Conductor for the Franco American VocalAcademy in France and Salzburg (FAVA) during several summers, where sheconducted works like Don Giovanni and La Belle Helene, and coached singers in theirroles and art song.

She is a regular guest artist, guest speaker, and teacher at different Universities inthe United States and abroad such as the University of Michigan, CambridgeUniversity, Universidade de Sao Paulo and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande doNorte (Brazil), Mahidol University (Thailand), University of Minnesota, University ofTexas at Austin, the University of South Carolina, and many more. Ana María holds aMaster’s degree in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin, an ArtistCertificate from the University of South Carolina where she worked with therenowned pianist Marina Lomazov, and a Doctorate in Collaborative Piano from theUniversity of Michigan, where she studied with world-class collaborative pianistMartin Katz. In 2021 she won the Emerging Artist Award from the University ofMichigan, as an artist who has greatly contributed to the profession.

She was principal keyboard of the Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra (2007–08) aswell as Assistant Professor at the University of Musical Studies in Caracas. Besidesher musical training, Ana María is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Italian, andalso a Geophysical Engineer. Her thesis was published in the prestigious journalPhysics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.

Dedicated to helping students experience the art of music and its transformativepowers, Adam Salas serves on the New School for Music Study faculty as its PostGraduate Fellow. Adam currently serves on the faculty of Texas Woman's Universitywhere he teaches keyboard musicianship and functional group piano for musicmajors. As an educator Adam has previously served on faculty for the Gray School ofMusic, Institute for Young Pianists, Southern Methodist University Piano PreparatoryDepartment, Thomas Metcalf School, Fox River Academy of Music and Art, and IllinoisState University Community School for the Arts.

Devoted to the future of piano pedagogy, Adam has presented at the Music TeachersNational Association Conference, National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, TexasMusic Teachers Association Convention, and MTNA Collegiate Symposium on topicsranging from practice strategies to meditation and mindfulness for musicians.Actively involved in his teaching communities, Adam has served on the board of theDallas Music Teachers Association and chaired the DMTA Jazz-Pop Festival andContest. In 2018 Adam was invited by Steinway Hall Dallas to tour the Steinway &Sons Factory in Astoria, New York. At Southern Methodist University Adam earned hisMaster of Music in Piano Performance and Pedagogy where he was awarded aTeaching Fellowship. He earned his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance andMusic Business from Illinois State University on a full scholarship.

Dr. Rosângela Yazbec Sebba is Professor of Piano at Mississippi State University,where she coordinates the piano area for the Department of Music and theCommunity Music School. She teaches applied lessons, piano literature, theory, andear training. Her college and pre-college students have received numerous awardsand honors for their performances and presentations. In demand as a clinician andadjudicator, she regularly presents workshops and lecture-recitals on repertoire andpedagogy throughout the country, and she has served as a guest artist and clinicianfor different associations in the US and abroad. She is in the process of organizingthe first Study Abroad Program for MSU Department of Music, scheduled to start inthe Summer of 2022. Her performances include solo, chamber music, piano four-hands, and two pianos repertoire. Her CD album "Eight Sonatinas and the Sonata forPiano Solo by M. Camargo Guarnieri" was released in 2010 as the first and onlyrecording of the works.

The album has been featured at David Dubal’s classical piano programs: The PianoMatters at WWFM, Reflections from the Keyboard at WQXR, both New York City radiostations, and his lecture at the Cervantes Institute. As a committed proponent ofcontemporary music, in 2017 Dr. Sebba released a chamber music CD on theCentaur Label - Millennia Musicae, with works by Stravinsky, Bill Douglas, and thepremier of a trio for piano, bassoon and clarinet and a quartet for piano, bassoon,clarinet and violin by Mississippian composer Shandy Phillips. Besides being theprincipal pianist of the Starkville/MSU Symphony Orchestra, she has been soloist withother orchestras in Brazil and in the United States with a wide repertoire fromMozart, Beethoven, to Camargo Guarnieri and Saint-Saens. Currently she is areviewer for the American Music Teacher Magazine and has published arrangementsof Brazilian music for different instruments.

As a sought-after chamber musician, she has collaborated in recitals andmasterclasses of renowned artists such as Emerson String Quartet, Leontine Price,Øystein Baadsvik, Simon Estes and Joseph Robinson. She has given recitals,masterclasses, lectures and lecture-recitals in the United States, Brazil, Mexico,Portugal, Costa Rica, England, Spain, and Taiwan including national and internationalconferences such as, the College Music Society, International Villa-Lobos Conference,London International Piano Symposium, LIII Música en Compostela, InternationalDouble Reed Society and National Association of College Wind and PercussionInstructors.

Dr. Sebba is an active member of local and state music teacher organizations,currently serving as the Golden Triangle Music Forum Secretary, District AuditionChair and VP for Pre-College Evaluations for the Mississippi Music TeachersAssociation. She is a member of several national and international associations suchas, Music Teachers National Association, College Music Society, CARAVELAS - Núcleode Estudos da História da Música Luso-Brasileira, National Federation of Music Clubs,World Piano Teachers Association and National Association of College Wind andPercussion Instructors. She is currently in the Mississippi Arts Commission ArtistRoster and was selected as a Fellow in 2015. Recent engagements are related to thepartnership with Universidade Federal de Goiás-Brazil, Fundação de CiênciaTecnologia de Portugal and Centro de Estudos em Sociologia e Estética Musical daUniversidade Nova de Lisboa, which will result in a series of interviews with musiciansaround the world, broadcast by YouTube links.

Pianist Ellen R. Sommer has quickly established a reputation as a much sought-aftercollaborative pianist, chamber musician, and coach. She performs extensivelythroughout the United States, Canada, Central and South Americas, Europe, and Asia.Most recent engagements have included concerts and master classes at Universidadde Costa Rica Conservatory in San Jose, Costa Rica. Additionally, Ellen traveled toTokyo with the Allegresse trio, premiering two new pieces at the International DoubleReed Society conference.

Sommer often serves as a pianist for regional, national and internationalcompetitions and festivals, as well as recital series and radio broadcasts. Sommer is afrequent performer in the live broadcast studio at Kansas Public Radio. AdditionallySommer coaches and performs for several summer camps and institutes, includingthe Omaha Conservatory of Music Institute, BLYAP and Sound Encounters SuzukiStrings camp in Ottawa, Kansas, Midwestern Music Camp in Lawrence, Kansas, andInterlochen Academy in Michigan. Recently Sommer was awarded a prestigious honoras a 2016 Distinguished Alumni from Missouri Western State University in SaintJoseph, MO.

Sommer is a founding member of Allegresse, a fresh and inspiring trio for flute, oboeand piano. Recently the trio was invited to present a recital and master classes at theFestival of New American Music in Sacramento, California. Allegresse is currentlycompleting a third CD recording and preparing for a March 2017 premiere of twonew works for the trio, including soprano.

Sommer has collaborated on numerous professional recordings, including four underthe auspices of Potenza Records. Most recently, Sommer recorded works ofcomposer, Ingrid Stolzel for the Parma label.

Sommer currently serves as a lecturer in piano at the University of Kansas School ofMusic. She performs regularly with faculty, visiting artists, and students. From 1994-2003, Sommer taught at Missouri Western State University, both as piano and voicefaculty.

Daniel Velasco is an award-winning flutist whose "standout" and "vibrant"performances (Miami Herald) have taken him around the world. He is the first prizewinner of the National Flute Association's Young Artist Competition, WAMSOMinnesota Orchestra Competition, MTNA Young Artist Competition, Claude MonteuxFlute Competition, second prize winner of the William C. Byrd Competition and finalistat the Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh International Competition. He has been a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra ofEcuador, Northern Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Luciano Carrera Chamber Orchestra,University of Akron Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, and has been featuredas a guest performer at the Greater Cleveland Flute Society, the Schubert Club Seriesin Saint Paul, the Indy Flute Festival in Indianapolis, the Middle Tennessee FluteFestival in Nashville, the University or North Florida, the Florida Flute AssociationConvention, the Swedish Flute Association Convention, the Guadalajara-Mexico“Vientos de Otoño Festival", the "Festival Internacional de Flautistas en la Mitad delMundo" in Ecuador, and the National Flute Association Conventions in Kansas City,New Orleans, Chicago and Orlando.

Orchestral festivals include the Latin American Orchestra, Chautauqua Music Festival,Orchestra de la Francophonie, Utah Festival Opera, as well as tours through Chile andCentral America with the Orchestra of the Americas. He has performed under CarlosPrieto, Gustavo Dudamel, Claudio Abbado, Ben Zander, Jean-Philippe Tremblay,Jacomo Bairos, Ramón Tebar, Cristian Macelaru, Carl St. Clair, and others.

An active freelancer, he has been a member of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra,Florida Grand Opera, Palm Beach Symphony, and has performed with Boca Sinfonia,Michigan Philharmonic, Akron Symphony, Pittsburgh Opera and Kansas CitySymphony. He was a member of the Solaris woodwind quintet for two seasons,

and is a founding member of the Miami-based NuDeco Ensemble.

Velasco earned a doctoral degree from the University of Miami-Frost School of Music,and holds degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of Texas at Austinand the University of Northern Iowa. His main teachers include Angeleita Floyd,Marianne Gedigian, Amy Porter and Trudy Kane.

He served on the faculty at the University of Akron from 2016-2018 and is currentlythe flute professor at the University of Kansas. Velasco is a Yamaha performing artist.

Dr. Rosângela Sebba: “Brazilian ‘Chorinhos’ - theRagtime from Brazil”

Maria Gabriela Alvarado, flute & Ilana Joyce Cady,piano: “Volveré: Discovering Women's Voices in

Music”

Dr. Christine Beard, flute & Stacie Haneline, piano: "Modern Musical

Inspirations"

Wellness Session 1

Spotlight on Puerto Rico 1

Panel - Collaborative Piano Needs & Challenges, Part 1

Dr. Anatolia Ioannides: "Makers and Shakers inMusical Arts: Inspiration, Ingenuity, Innovation,

Entrepreneurship, and Inter-Cultural Collaboration inLatin America, the Caribbean, and the USA"

Dr. Sérgio Barrenechea and Dr. Lúcia Barrenechea(Duo Barrenechea), flute & piano Lecture Recital:

"Brazilian Music for Flute and Piano"

Professional Competition Performer Highlights

Wellness Session 2

Spotlight on Puerto Rico 2

Dr. Patricio Molina: “Composition for Performers”

Lauren Koszyk & Adam Salas: “No Student is anIsland: Integrating Collaborative Piano Pedagogy

into Your Studio”

Dr. Gina Hart- Kemper, flute & Dr. JessicaKoebbe, piano: "Music of the Americas"

Wellness Session 3

Spotlight on Puerto Rico 3

Luis Marín: “Accompaniment in Latin Styles andGenres”

Dr. Daniel Velasco, flute & Ellen Sommer, piano:“Flauta Andina”

Wellness Session 4

Spotlight on Puerto Rico 4

Myrsini Margariti, soprano & Effie Agrafioti, piano:"Greek Muse : Art songs of Greek Female Composers

and Female Composers of the Greek Diaspora"

Sandy Choi, violin & Dr. Elizabeth Hill, piano:"Illuminations"

Collegiate Competition Performer Highlights

Wellness Session 5

Spotlight on Puerto Rico 5

Panel - Tackling Inequalities & Challenges of Beingan Under-represented Voice in Classical Music

Dr. Patricio Molina: “Arabic Music on the Piano”

Fabiana González, mezzo soprano & Luis Marín,piano: “Dos Gardenias Para Ti: Musical

Retrospective in the Bolero Song Tradition"

Dr. Ana María Otamendi: “Discovering Latin AmericanChamber Music”

Dr. Anatolia Ioannides: “The Art of Collaboration &Negotiation: Collaborative Pianist's Skill Set and

Effective Rehearsal Strategies”

Wellness Session 6

Spotlight on Puerto Rico 6

International Collaborative Competition FinalRound: Winners Announced

Panel - Wellness in Music

Wellness Session 7

Spotlight on Puerto Rico 7

Panel - Collaborative Piano Needs & Challenges,Part 2

Saturday, June 12, 2021Modern Musical Inspirations

Stacie Haneline, piano

Christie Beard, flute/piccolo

Exequiel Mantega (b. 1983)

Mel Bonis (1858 - 1937)

Samuel Zyman (b. 1954)

Noelia Escalzo (b. 1979)

Gary Schocker (b. 1959)

Milonga Camarga (piccolo and piano)

Piéce

Sonata No.2Larghetto espressivo e rubatoPresto con spirito

Vientos de Plata

Sonata No. 4 for piccolo and pianoCounting ChickensNot Quite How Things Worked OutCut to the Chase

Christopher Lee, flute

Saturday, June 12th Volveré:

Discovering Women's Voices in Music

Gabriela Alvarado, fluteIlana Joyce Cady, piano

Adoration

Piéce, Op. 189 Scherzo, Op. 187

Júrame Volveré

D'un matin de printemps

Requiem Milonga for Flute and Piano

2020 was a year of change, a year where all voices were heard. We want to pay tribute to the events ofthis past year by performing pieces by women composers, including Latin and African American

women. We chose three composers who have a variance of popularity: Florence Price, Maria Grever,Mel Bonis, Germaine Tailleferre, Cècile Chaminade, Lili Boulanger, and Valerie Coleman. Each

composer has been a master in their field but not always received the recognition they deserved. Wewant to highlight their voices in our program titled, Volveré. Volveré means coming back and

representing these women’s voices coming back to be heard by each new generation. Leaving theirlegacy for future women composers to draw inspiration from.

Florence Price (1887 – 1953)

Mélanie Bonis (1858 - 1937)

María Grever (1885 – 1951)

Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918)

Valerie Coleman (b. 1970)

Sunday, June 13thInternational Collaborative Piano Competition

Highlights from the Competitors’ Video Submissions

Ilana Joyce CadySonata for Flute and Piano, Scherzo & Finale movements ..................................Mélanie Bonis (1858-1937)Ballade ................................... ................................... ................................... .......Frank Martin (1890-1974)

Ethan Lin-Schwartz, flutistJiwon ChoiTípico Tríptico Característico ................................... ................................... .............Andrés Levell (b. 1983)Sérénade aux Étoiles ................................... ................................... ...............Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)

Gina Hart-Kemper, flutist

Natalie Vanegas EscobarHistoire de Tango: 2. Café 1930 ................................... ........................................Paquito D’Rivera (b.1948)

Mari Kamikura, flutistCatherine GarnerRhapsodia Andria ................................... .........................................Adriana Isabel Figueroa Mañas (b.1966)Sonata (flute & piano), movements 3 & 4 ................................... ...........................Yuko Uebayashi (b.1958)

Dr. Christine Gustafson, flutist

Jaime NammingaSonata for Flute and Piano, Adagio movement .....................................................Mélanie Bonis (1858-1937)

Leslie Cullen, flutist

Tingting YaoSummerland ................................... ................................... ..........................William Grant Still (1895-1978)

Delara Hashemi, flutist

Sunday, June 13, 2021 Brazilian Music for Flute and Piano

Duo Barrenechea:

Sergio Barrenechea, flute Lucia Barrenechea, piano

Handout for Duo BarrenecheaLucia Barrenechea is a pianist and professor of Piano and Chamber Music at Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro. I am hereto present with Sergio Barrenechea a unique mosaic of Brazilian music for flute and piano.

The duo of flute and piano has been largely explored by Brazilian composers since the second half of the 19th century. In Brazil,the flute has an important role in the urban popular music development in the big cities, since the last decade of the 19th century,like the choro. One could see this instrument in the concert halls, in a symphonic orchestra performance, and later the sameinstrument would be in a bar or a café, performing choros with a guitar, a clarinet, a pandeiro. This versatility can be observed in aconsiderable amount of music being written for the flute and the piano. This recital aims to show a sample of Brazilian music written in different times, all of them in a compositional language that blends European tradition withBrazilian popular music roots. Sergio and I have been researching Brazilian repertoire for flute and piano for more than 30 years,and for that reason, we like to explore not only compositions written originally for this formation, but also works that are arrangedor transcribed for it. Of the entire repertoire presented here, two works were written originally for this formation and three aretranscriptions or arrangements. Above all, this repertoire consists of compositions that are dear to us, as a duo for flute and piano. Itis a repertoire that we truly enjoy performing. We had a great time preparing it for this recital.

Henrique Alves de Mesquita was the first student of the Rio de Janeiro Conservatory of Music to be sent to Europe to further hismusical studies. The operettas and leggiero pieces represent the majority of his production. He is considered to be the creator of theexpression 'tango brasileiro', which evolved to the choro genre. Mesquita was a trumpet player, but also played many otherinstruments, like the flute. Batuque, a lyrical and nostalgic piece, was written originally for piano solo, a tango, or

Batuque (1894)

Três Canções para Schmidt (2011, versão 2021)Cubatão Caras Sujas Simpatia

Flauteano (2011)Alegre MelancólicoBaião: espirituoso

Fantasia sobre a Muié Rendêra (1988)

Odeon (1909)

Henrique Alves de Mesquita (1830-1906)

Roberto Farias (b. 1954)

Suzi Magalhães (b. 1965)

Liduino Pitombeira (b.1962)

Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934)

a choro. In this transcription, made by Sergio Barrenechea, piano and flute have an equal role, taking turns to present the mainmelodic material and counter-melodies.

Roberto Farias is a band conductor, composer and arranger from Cubatão, a city in São Paulo State. He wrote Três Canções paraSchmidt for voice and piano in 2011, and later did different arrangements for choir, wind ensemble and for one wind instrumentand piano. This version for flute and piano is from 2021 and is dedicated to our duo.These three songs are a tribute to Brazilianpoet Afonso Schmidt (1890-1964), also from Cubatão, and are based on three of his poems. According to Farias, Cubatão is a“seresteira” song, after Villa-Lobos style; Caras Sujas (Dirty Faces) is a samba, a protest song, after Chico Buarque’s style; andSimpatia (Sympathy) is a choro, after Pixinguinha’s style.

Flauteano is a collection of 3 pieces written by Suzi Magalhães for our duo. Suzi Magalhães is from Brasilia and besides being acomposer and arranger she has a beautiful career as a collaborative pianist. The suite presents the form fast slow-fast, beginningwith a very rhythmic and vigorous piece, followed by a lyrical and melancholic piece, and it ends with a baião, a Brazilian musicalgenre from the Northeast, made popular all over the country by accordionist Luiz Gonzaga, who was called “the king of baião”.

Liduino Pitombeira was born in Ceara State, in the Northeast of Brazil, and is currently a Professor of Composition at FederalUniversity of Rio de Janeiro. Fantasia sobre a Muié Rendêra (Fantasy on the Lacemaker) is an original work for flute and piano.Later the composer arranged it for flute, clarinet and piano. Muié Rendêra is a song believed to be written by Lampião, a famousleader of the cangaço, a social movement against the government in the Northeast, that took place around the end of 19th centuryand first half of 20th century. This song is known and sung in the whole country and has also been recorded in several differentlanguages. Ceará is known for the beautiful lace that is produced there by artesan women. The lyrics are: Olê muié rendêra / Hey lacemaker Olê muié rendá / Hey lacemakerTu me ensina a fazer renda / If you teach me how to make lace Que eu te ensino a namorar / I’ll teach you how to flirt This composition presents some rhythmic complexities with varied metrics, combined with a very lyrical melodic material, alwaysreminding us of the original theme, in a very refined and subtle way.

Ernesto Nazareth is considered one of the most important names of the Brazilian piano, author of more than 200 pieces for thisinstrument, among them maxixes, tangos, waltzes and other dances. Odeon is, perhaps, his most famous composition, a virtuosicBrazilian tango. The version that we present here, made by Sergio Barrenechea, blends excerpts of arrangements of great nameswho recorded Odeon: Carolina Cardoso de Menezes, Radamés Gnattali, Edu da Gaita, Jacob do Bandolim, Pixinguinha, Pedro deAlcântara and Nazareth himself.

The duo of flute and piano has been largely explored by Brazilian composers, since the 19th century. It is a repertoire worth ofbeing studied and heard, not only by musicians and researchers from our country, but by everyone who is interested in expandinghis/her knowledge of Brazilian music for flute and piano. We are very fortunate to have our dear friends Suzi Magalhães, RobertoFarias and Liduino Pitombeira writing such beautiful music for flute and piano! We also feel very lucky to have in our history ofmusic composers like Mesquita and Nazareth. Thank you very much for watching us, it was a pleasure to participate in thisbeautiful event!

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Monday, June 14Music of the Americas

Dr. Gina Hart-Kemper, fluteDr. Jessica Koebbe, piano

Canción de Cuna Samuel Zyman (b. 1956) La Fleur de Cayenne Paquito d’Rivera (b. 1948)(Venezuelan Joropo) Fanmi Imèn Valerie Coleman (b. 1970)(Poem for flute and piano) Miami Flute Suite Miguel del Aguila (b. 1957) Silencio Seducción

Greek Muse: Songs of Greek Female Composers and FemaleComposers of the Greek Diaspora

Myrsini Margariti, soprano

Effie Agrafioti, piano

Apparition (Alphonse de Lamartine) Mario Foscarina Damaschino (1850-1921)Le Renouveau (A. Brady) No more spring flowers (Chevalier Henry Cook) Cleonice Gennadios

Romanza (Mikhail Eminescu) Maria Chefaliadi-Taban (1863-1932)

Ma voi trezi iar/I'll be back Mansi Barberis (1899-1986)

Sehnsucht (J. W. Goethe) Lila Lalaouni (1918-1996)September Morgen (E. Moerike)Adagio (K. Karthaios)

Evening mourning (G. Geralis) Vassiliki Filipeou

Lithi/Oblivion (L. Mavilis) Eleni Lambiri (1889-1960)In the tavern

Se xenitemeno aidoni Eri Markouizou

My loneliness (O. Votsi) Maria Kalogridou (1922-2001)The first rain (K. Kokorovits)

Tristesse Irma Kolassi (b.1918) Mono /Only (K. Kariotakis) Lena Platonos (b.1951) Night (K. Kariotakis)

Sleepinhg Girl (Diane Fahey) Linda Ioanna Kouvaras (b.1968)Party Lines and Deaf Ears (Bronwen Bartal)

Memory (T. B. Alrich) Vivien Lambelet (1903-1963)Oh, for my true love Ah, do not be so sweet (M. Web)Faint heart (G. Hadath)Cavalier (J. Masefield)Ribbons (P. Wing)Searching the world for Love

Greek Muse contains songs by women composers from Greece and of Greek descent, performed byinternationally-renowned soprano Myrsini Margariti and pianist Effie Agrafioti. The selection andlocation of the works is the result of years of research and study by pianist Effie Agrafioti incollaboration with the Athens Conservatory Archive, the Lillian Voudouri Music Library of the Friendsof Music Association, the "Thomas Tamvakos Archive of Greek Composers," and the Composers' files,in the few cases where they existed.

*Concert recorded at the Athens Conservatory, Aris Garoufalis Hall, on Feb 8, 2020. This concert washosted by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Cultural Center.

Tuesday, June 15, 2021Flauta Andina

Dr. Daniel Velasco, flute

Ellen Sommer, piano

Suite for Flute and Piano Jacinto Freire (b. 1950) Mi Poncho El Pajonal El Cóndor En el Centro del Mundo y del Tiempo Leonardo Cardenas (b. 1968) Leyenda Incásica Sixto María Durán (1875-1947)

Wednesday, June 16thInternational Collegiate Piano Competition

Highlights from the Competitors' Video Submissions

Zoe HouseFantasia Concertante ...................... ................................... .................. ............ José Núñez (1834-1918)

Dyamond Mays, flutist

Abby LyonPoemeto (1974) ............................ ................................... ............................Osvaldo Lacerda (1927-2011)

Gina Hart-Kemper, flutist

Fernando MarrufoLa Plus Que Lente ................................... ................................... ..................Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Omnia Abdelwahab, flutist

Yimeng XuRomance Op.23 ................................... ................................... .............................Amy Beach (1867-1944)Canción de Cuna for Flute and Piano ................................... ................................Samuel Zyman (b.1956)

Paige Michaud, flutist

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 Illuminations

Sandy Choi, violin

Dr. Elizabeth G. Hill, piano

Fantasie [No. 1] for Violin and Piano (1933) Florence B. Price (1887-1953) Peace for Violin and Piano (2020) Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981) Sonata for Violin and Piano (1912) Poldowski (1879-1932)

Andante LanguidoScherzo - VivaceFinale - Presto con Fuoco

Thursday, June 17thDos Gardenias Para Ti: A Musical Retrospective in the

Bolero Song Tradition

Fabiana González, mezzo-sopranoLuis Marín, pianist

CubaTristezas...............................................................................................................................Pepe Sánchez (1857-1918)

Y tú, ¿qué has hecho?........................................................................................................Eusebio Delfín (1893-1965)

Aquellos ojos verdes.........................................................................................................Nilo Menéndez (1902-1987)

Dos gardenias....................................................................................................................Isolina Carrillo (1907-1996)

La gloria eres tú......................................................................................................José Antonio Méndez (1927-1989)

Tu me acostumbraste....................................................................................................Frank Domínguez (1927-2014)

MéxicoNada me importa el mundo........................................................................................Pablo Beltrán Ruiz (1915-2008)

Solamente una vez................................................................................................................Agustín Lara (1897-1970)

Bésame mucho..........................................................................................................Consuelo Velázquez (1916-2005)

Un poco más....................................................................................................................Álvaro Carrillo (1921-1969)La mentira Contigo aprendí ......................................................................................................Armando Manzanero (1935-2020)

Puerto RicoCampanitas de cristal.........................................................................................Rafael Hernández Marín (1892-1965)

Obsesión................................................................................................................................Pedro Flores (1894-1979)

Bello amanecer..................................................................................................................Tito Henríquez (1920-1992)

Y entonces..........................................................................................................................Sylvia Rexach (1922-1961)Nave sin rumbo ¿Qué sabes tú?........................................................................................................................Myrta Silva (1927-1987)

Sin fe......................................................................................................................................Bobby Capó (1922-1989)