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White Bear Center for the Arts

  • White Bear Center for the Arts 4971 Long Avenue White Bear Lake, MN, 55110 United States (map)
 

This concert is free and open to the public.

 
 

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata for Piano and Violin in C Major, K. 303
Sonata for Piano and Violin in E minor, K. 304

Marion Judish, violin
Jenya Trubnikava, piano

Johann Sebastian Bach
Three Transcriptions of Organ Chorales

   Das alte Jahr vergangen ist (The Old Year Has Passed Away)
      arr. Kurtag
   In dir ist Freude (In Thee Is Joy)
      arr. Vally Weigl
    Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
      arr. Myra Hess

Christian Gottlob Neefe
Six Pieces based on Mozart's Opera "Magic Flute”

Paul & Helen Baumgartner, piano duo

 

Performer Information

Marion Judish, violin

Marion Judish, violin

Dr. Marion Judish is Professor of Violin and Viola at St. Cloud State University, and has held this position for twenty-eight years. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Minnesota, and studied chamber music performance at the Juilliard School of Music. An avid performer, Marion has performed on Minnesota Public Radio, and in recitals throughout Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Colorado, Wyoming, Chicago, and New York City. She has also concertized in Sweden, Germany, France and the U.K. She has appeared as soloist with several orchestras, including the Denver Symphony, the St. Cloud Symphony, Northwest Symphony and Amadeus Chamber Symphony.
Marion is concertmaster for the Wayzata Symphony, Amadeus Chamber Players, and the St. Cloud Symphony.

Judish holds the record of receiving three consecutive W. Fiske Scholarship awards at the University of Colorado during her undergraduate studies. This was the most prestigious award to be given.

Jenya Trubnikava, piano

Jenya Trubnikava, piano

As a recitalist, Jenya Trubnikava has appeared with the musicians from the rosters of the Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, National Opera and Ballet of Belarus, and Zurich University of Arts. She has coached/accompanied the masterclasses of many accomplished artists including Håkan Hagegård, Margo Garrett, Martin Katz, and François Le Roux, and is engaged as Russian repertoire coach at the Minnesota Opera Resident Artists Program. Jenya is currently pursuing her Doctoral Degree in Collaborative Piano and Coaching at the University of Minnesota, serves as adjunct piano professor at St. John’s University and is a sought-after performer and vocal coach in Central Minnesota. 

Helen and Paul Baumgartner, piano duo

Helen and Paul Baumgartner, piano duo

Helen Bilhorn Baumgartner is a graduate in piano and violin of the Preparatory Department of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She received her B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College. She holds a master’s degree from the Eastman School and a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Minnesota. She taught at Miyagi Women’s College in Sendai, Japan and was a visiting professor of piano at Doshisha Women's University in Kyoto. In 1966 she joined the faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College, retiring in 2004. She has appeared as piano soloist with the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler, the Rochester (N.Y.) Philharmonic, and the Sendai City Symphony.

Paul Baumgartner is a graduate of Heidelberg University (Ohio). He completed the M.M. at the Eastman School of Music, did additional graduate study at Indiana University and was awarded a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Arizona. While working toward the doctorate, he served as teaching assistant to Ozan Marsh at the Chautauqua Institute in New York. He has coached with teachers who trained at the Dorothy Taubman Institute. He taught at Miyagi College, Wisconsin State University in Stevens Point and Chowan College in North Carolina before joining the faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College in 1964, where he taught until early retirement in 1991. He and Helen continue to teach privately at home.

The Baumgartners began their teaching careers as missionary teachers for the United Church of Christ in Japan and have concertized in Japan and throughout the United States as a piano duet and duo-piano team. They are the parents of five children and grandparents of eight, with two great-grandchildren.

 

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Home of Russell Dedrick & Polly Meyerding
Later Event: November 6
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