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Featuring Libby Laufers, flute and Carolyn Diamond, piano & Peter Arnstein, piano.
Full program available here: https://bit.ly/3ECRro3
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Dr. Arnstein is well known in the Twin Cities area as a pianist and composer. He has often served as pianist and harpsichordist with the Minnesota Orchestra, and has accompanied many members of the Twin Cities’ two main orchestras and college music faculties. A winner of international competitions in both composition and piano, he has toured the Midwest as pianist and composer-in-residence for the Sylmar Chamber Ensemble and currently teaches at the St. Paul Conservatory of Music and the Mt. Calvary School of Music. He has performed many times at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland as both piano soloist and harpsichord soloist. His CDs include programs from his own solo piano concerts, including Live from Edinburgh, Live from Illinois, and Live from B.C. His latest CD is Serenity 2, which includes many of his own compositions.
He received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his Master’s from the University of Illinois-Urbana, and his Bachelor’s from the Manhattan School of Music. His music is published by Manduca Music Publications in the United States and by Spartan Press in Europe.
Recently he participated in the Nautilus composer/librettist program, for which he wrote five song/theater scenes in two weeks, working with five different authors.
He has also written liner notes for music CDs, science articles for ehow.com, classical music articles for examiner.com, and, sometimes, short stories and novels.
Libby Laufers is a diverse musician who received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Minnesota and her Master of Music from University of Missouri-Kansas City. She has been involved on the boards of several musical organizations in the Twin Cities, including the Upper Midwest Flute Association and the Suzuki Association of Minnesota as well as serving as a judge for Thursday Musical. Currently, Libby teaches flute, piano and organ from her home in Chanhassen and is the organist at Our Savior Lutheran in Excelsior. She and her husband have three children.
Active as both pianist and pipe organist, she performs regularly on concert series and in salon settings. As a recitalist, she has been praised for her buoyant style and interpretive vigor, and has the reputation of delivering passionate and colorful performances. Selections from her CD of piano music, SCANDINAVIAN SUITE, have been played on Minnesota Public Radio.
Diamond has been a frequent performer at the Van Cliburn Piano Institute in Texas where she was a winner of their Piano Concerto Competition, performing with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
She is active as a member of the Twin Cities Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (on the Executive Board), Friday Club, and is an Artist Performer and Executive Board Member of Thursday Musical. And while living in NYC, worked with the American Symphony Orchestra, and was a performer with the National Arts Club.
Having been a church musician since high school, Carolyn Diamond has served congregations as Director of Music/Organist in the Twin Cities as well as in the NY/CT area.
Additionally, she has formed a salon series called MUSE….Music Uniting Spirits Everywhere... intended to promote music of multi styles and genres to spread good will and human connection.
A Valedictorian from Robbinsdale High School, she received her B.A. degree (with highest distinction) from the University of Minnesota where she studied piano with Bernard Weiser and organ with Heinrich Fleischer. Postgraduate work includes keyboard studies with Howard Don Small, Dean Billmeyer at the University of Minnesota, Kent Tritle of the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, and Igor Resnianski of Westchester University