Thursday Musical Artist Series
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Complimentary Coffee and Donuts at 10:00 am
Tickets $15, $10 (groups of 8+), $6 students, sold at the door, general seating
Program
Pedro Iturralde (b. 1929)
Pequeña Czarda(1949)
Charlie Gannon, alto saxophone
Young Artist Scholarship Competition Winner 2019
First Place, High School Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion
William Gannon, piano
Deodat de Severac (1872-1921)
Valse Romantique
Enrique Granados (1862-1916)
Spanish Dance No. 5
Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)
Rumores de la Caleta
Federico Mompou
Song and Dance No. 6
Federico Mompou
Song and Dance No. 5
Susan Hellerud, piano
Gregory Theisen
Scenes from Istanbul, 2017
Scenes from Lisbon, 2018
Duo Harmonia: Susana Pinto and Pinar Başgöze, piano
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1828)
From Sei Ariette, Op. 95
“Ombre amene, amiche piante”
“Fra tutte le pene”
“Quando sara quel di”
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
From Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Aria (Cantilena)
Kristin Griffeath, soprano
James Flegel, guitar
Program order subject to change.
Performer Information
Charles Gannon, saxophone
Charles Gannon
2019 Young Artist Scholarship Winner, First Places, High School Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion
Charlie Gannon is a freshman at the University of Minnesota studying classical saxophone performance with Dr. Preston Duncan. He began his studies with Dr. Duncan during his sophomore year of high school. In his junior year of high school, he won second place in the Thursday Musical scholarship competition and in his senior year of high school, he won first prize in Thursday Musical and second place in the Schubert Club competition. Also in his senior year, Charlie competed in the MPR Minnesota Varsity competition and earned the opportunity to record at MPR’s studios in Saint Paul, MN.
Duo Harmonia
Susana Pinto and Pinar Başgöze, piano
Duo Harmonia
Susana Pinto and Pinar Başgöze, piano
Founded in 2008, Duo Harmonia (formerly the Başgöze-Pinto Piano Duo) have been performing regularly in and around the state of Minnesota, USA. They have frequently been invited to perform in concert series such as the MacPhail Center for Music Spotlight Series (Minneapolis, MN), Schubert Club Court Room Series (St. Paul, MN), Thursday Musical Artist Series (Twin Cities, MN), and Central Michigan University School of Music Alumni Concert Series (Mt. Pleasant, MI). Recipients of a MacPhail Artist Development Grant – funded by The McKnight Foundation – Duo Harmonia recorded their first CD, Harmonia, in 2018. Pınar Başgöze, a native of Ankara, Turkey, received her B. A. and M. A. degrees in piano performance under the guidance of Professor Banu Perk at Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory in Turkey; further studies include piano pedagogy and performance with Maria Curcio in London and piano performance with Dr. Paul Shaw at the University of Minnesota School of Music. A native of Lisbon, Portugal, Susana Pinto received her B. A. in piano performance from the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa under the tutelage of Tania Achot and Pedro Burmester. Her M. A. in piano performance and pedagogy is from Central Michigan University with Alexandra Mascolo-David. Both Pınar and Susana are full time piano faculty members at MacPhail Center for Music, skillfully managing lives filled with performing, teaching piano, and raising their families.
Kristin Griffeath, soprano
Kristin Griffeath, soprano, holds degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance (D.M.A. in Voice Performance, M.M. in Musicology), the University of Arizona (M.M. in Voice Performance), and the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music (B.M. in Music Education with Voice as Primary Instrument, and Piano Performance). Favorite roles include "The Lady with a Hand Mirror" from Argento's Postcard from Morocco, "Dorine" from Mechem's Tartuffe, and "Miss Wordsworth" from Britten's Albert Herring. She has performed with the Tucson Masterworks Chorale, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and the Tucson Chamber Artists. Originally from Plymouth, Minnesota, Dr. Griffeath currently teaches as an associate professor for Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma. Her continuing research into popular music of World War I prompted a collaboration on an exhibit for the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, and she currently serves on the museum's Academic Advisory Board.
Susan Hellerud, piano
Susan Hellerud has been a performing member of Thursday Musical for more than four decades. She retired in 2017 after serving for fifty-one years on the piano faculty of MacPhail Center for Music, and continues to perform frequently as a solo pianist and chamber musician. In 1996 Susan established the Shin Tanaka Piano Scholarship at MacPhail in memory of her husband, an endowment which she has supported and enlarged by curating and performing a series of annual benefit concerts. She also enjoys making joint appearances with her twin sister, author and poet Sara DeLuca. Susan has also had a long career as an organist in several Twin Cities area churches.
Her choice of music for today’s program was inspired by a recent trip to study the medieval history of the Pyrenees mountains. The composers represented were all born in or near the Pyrenees which form the natural boarder between France and the Iberian Peninsula.