Due to inclement weather, our Thursday Musical Artist Series concert on February 23rd has been cancelled.
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Featuring Thursday Musical Members Patricia Kent, mezzo soprano & Julie Ann Greif, soprano accompanied by guest artist Sarah Lockwood, piano (not pictured); and Thursday Musical Member Will Richardson, cello accompanied by guest artist Stephen Self; and Thursday Musical Members Charles Wazanowski, tuba accompanied by Amos Lucidi, piano.
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For everyone’s safety, Thursday Musical strongly recommends all audience members to wear a non-cloth mask such as a N95, KN95, KF94, or surgical mask inside of the recital hall.
Charles Wazanowski began studying tuba in the eighth grade. Although he has attained advanced degrees from the Hartt School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music he is still studying and learning. Being around great artists, Mr. Wazanowski learned from them that music was their access to the eternal as well as way to tell a story. Put another way, you just want to play music for someone you love. Mr. Wazanowski plays locally with the River Falls Brass and the Rochester (MN) Symphony Orchestra. He has a website that can be found at CharlesWazanowski.com.
Music is a creative activity that makes us imagine a better world in order to create it. Amos believes that the experience of a live performance can touch our consciousness and change the way we look at the world, thus making us better human beings.
Amos is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts program in Piano Performance at the University of Minnesota under the guidance of the Professor Alexander Braginsky.6
Regarded as one of the most outstanding young Mexican musicians, Amos Lucidi has performed extensively as a soloist and in chamber groups in Mexico, Italy, France, the United Kingdom and the United States, participating in important festivals.
Amos’ solo repertoire comprises a wide range of authors from the Baroque to the 20th-century music, especially focusing on late Russian composers as Scriabin, Rachmaninov, and Prokofiev. He frequently includes music from the Mexican composers, such as Manuel M. Ponce and José Rolón, in his recitals.
Will Richardson has performed with a wide variety of classical and non-classical organizations from the Mill City Summer Opera to Weird Al Yankovic. He has been a member of the Duluth-Superior Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, Owensboro Symphony, Marion Philharmonic, and the Richmond Symphony. Past solo performances include Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, and Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Cellos with the Century College Orchestra, as well as the complete cello sonatas of Bohuslav Martinů for Thursday Musical’s Artist Series Concerts. He completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where his primary teachers were Helga Winold and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. He 7
studied baroque cello with Christine Kyprianides.
A dedicated teacher, Mr. Richardson is co-founder of North Star Cello Academy located in Roseville, MN, and instructor of cello at Century College and Inver Hills Community College. His previous teaching experience includes Hamline University, Bethel University, The College of Saint Benedict, and St. Joseph’s School of Music. He has completed Suzuki Cello Teacher training through the Suzuki Association of the Americas. He plays a cello made by David Folland of Northfield, MN.
Stephen Self received the M.M. degree in piano performance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, the Ph.D. in music history from The Ohio State University, and the D.M.A. in organ performance from West Virginia University. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi national honor society and Pi Kappa Lambda national music society.
Patricia Kent has performed as soloist with many orchestras including Wooster (OH) Symphony, the Duluth Superior Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. She holds a DMA from the University of Minnesota, where she won the coveted Schussler Prize. She is an active performer in opera, 8
chamber music, recitals and oratorio. Patricia is a featured artist on several recordings, including the Minnesota AIDS Quilt Songbook, “All in the Family,” a CD of songs of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn with pianist Robert Koopmann and a CD of French songs, la Vie Intérieure, with Roderick Phipps-Kettlewell. Patricia serves on the music faculty of Augsburg University and Macalester College.
Sarah Lockwood received her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from Depauw University (Greencastle, IN), and her Masters of Music degree in Collaborative Piano at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis). Sarah has held staff accompanist positions at Carleton College, Augsburg College and MacPhail Center for Music. She has collaborated with participants for various competitions such as The Schubert Club, Thursday Musical and NATS, and has also worked with singers for Minnesota Opera auditions. Sarah is also a violinist and violist and in 2013 she accepted a viola position with the Rochester Symphony in Rochester, Minnesota. Sarah teaches privately on all three instruments and enjoys working with students of all ages and levels. Sarah has lived in Hastings, Minnesota since 2004 where she has worked with the public schools’ music programs and has also been involved with the local Black Dirt Theater musical productions as music director, assistant music director and orchestra musician. In December of 2014 Sarah and her husband, Travis, purchased the former Guardian Angels 9
Catholic Church and converted it into a performing arts space, art gallery and music school. The school is Blessings Academy of Arts and Music and the former church building is now called the Hastings Arts Center
Julie Ann is a versatile performer on stage and in the studio. She has performed in theater, dance, opera, music theater, concert, recital, and cabaret. In addition, she is a commercial actor, print model, voice-over talent and an award-winning competitive ballroom dancer. She has maintained a private voice and bodywork studio called Greif Performance Studio in Minneapolis for over 25 years, where she integrates the Alexander Technique. Julie Ann has performed with Persistent Theatre Productions, Phoenix Theater, Theatre Unbound, Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Opera, Studio Lirico (Italy), Opera 101, Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Co., Northstar Opera, Sunset Playhouse, Kenwood Orchestra, Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Dance With Us America, among others. She was the recipient of a Schubert Club Special Artist Grant to study opera in Italy and holds a Masters degree in Voice and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Therapy, from the University of Minnesota. She was awarded an MRAC grant in 2018 as the Executive Director of Persistent Theatre Productions.
