Daniel Kuester is from Boulder, CO, USA. He received B.S. and B.M. Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Music Performance in 2007 and an M.S. degree in 2010 from the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he remains as a Ph.D. student. Since 2007, he has worked at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under a research fellowship.
He began playing the trombone at the age of 10, and played in several local youth orchestras through high school. His orchestral experience as an undergraduate included performances with the with the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in a concert for families, and with the University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra in performances conducted by Akira Endo and Marin Alsop. During the summers he participated in the Rafael Mendez brass institute and the yearly conducting symposium held at the University of Colorado.
In addition to the BSO, he currently plays with the Denver-area
chamber pop group Ukelele Loki’s Gadabout Orchestra.
Justina Repking has appeared in concert throughout the United States, Europe, and Russia. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2005 with the American Youth Symphony as principal second violinist of the prestigious youth orchestra. She made her solo debut with the Long Beach Mozart Festival Orchestra at the age of twelve after winning the Long Beach Mozart Festival Concerto Competition. Other notable solo appearances include performances with the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg (Russia) University Orchestra, and Rome (Italy) Orchestra.
A native of Long Beach, California, Justina is a proud graduate of California State University Long Beach. She was a scholarship student of Linda Rose and Dr. Chan Ho Yun, earning her Bachelor of Music degree with a concentration in violin performance in the spring of 2007.
Justina was awarded Grand Prize in South Bend, Indiana’s “America’s Youth on Parade” international talent competition. She has also captured top prizes at the Long Beach Bach Festival, the Southwestern Youth Festival, Young Artists Guild of California, as well as being a seven-time prize winner of the Music Teacher’s Association of California music competition for both violin and piano.
In the fall of 2007, Justina recorded the second violin part to the Jewish documentary film “Swimming in Auswitch”. This documentary won numerous film festival awards, including the Santa Monica Film Festival award.
Justina has collaborated with renowned artists Josh Groban, Sarah Chang, John Williams, Laura Hall, Michael Kamen, Yundi Li, and Charice Pempengco. She has also had the honor and privilege to participate in master classes conducted by Adele Anthony, Elmar Oliveira, Corey Cerosek, Mark Robertson, and the Alexander String Quartet.
Orchestral performances have always been a strong passion for Justina. She has held principal second violin positions with American Youth Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic Youth Symphony, and Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra. With the Long Beach Symphony and San Diego Symphony Orchestras, she has held substitute positions. Section first violin positions held were with Golden State Pops Orchestra, Southern California Philharmonic Orchestra, Southeast Symphony Orchestra, and Bellflower Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, she was concertmaster for Filipino American Symphony Orchestra and California State University Long Beach Orchestra among numerous other orchestras she has had the privilege to concertmaster in the south lands of California. Most recently, she has captured a section violin position with Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra and just begun as Concertmaster with Boulder Symphony Orchestra.
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Patrick Sutton began his journey with the guitar at the age of 11 in Evergreen, Colorado. He completed his Bachelor and Masters in classical guitar performance at the Lamont School of Music, studying with Ricardo Iznaola, Masakazu Ito and Jonathan Leathwood. While at Lamont, he received several honors including, first place in the 2009 Lamont chamber music competition, three recital of distinction awards and induction into the Pi Kappa Lambda national music honor society. Patrick is a two-time prizewinner in the Denver Classical Guitar Society Solo Competition and has performed in master classes for many top guitarists and pedagogues, including, Sharon Isbin, Elliot Fisk, Fredrick Hand, Richard Wright, Fabio Zanon, Marcin Dylla and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Chamber music is Patrick’s favorite musical outlet. His extensive repertoire includes a wide variety of genres and mixed ensembles. He has received chamber music coaching’s from some of today’s most important composers for the guitar, such as, Robert Beaser, Gilbert Babarian and Stephen Goss.
Patrick maintains a passionate interest in a wide variety of musical styles and is sponsored by Godin Guitars. He is currently on the music faculty at Community College of Denver and is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder as a teaching assistant.
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Deborah Marshall, clarinet, has performed with artists ranging from Peter Serkin to Yo-Yo Ma. She lived in Germany for 22 years where she performed with many of the country’s best-known orchestras. She served on the faculty of the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich and the Richard Strauss Conservatory for 14 years and has coached and given master classes throughout Europe. She has recorded for practically every German broadcasting corporation, as well as Austrian Radio ORF, Swiss Radio SRG and Radio Orfeo Moscow. The following 11 years were spent in Budapest and Moscow, where she continued her active career as soloist and chamber musician. She now resides in Boulder, Colorado.
Featuring musicians of the Boulder Symphony. This is the first in the exciting chamber concert series that the orchestra will launch our 2011-12 Season of Transformation!
Saturday, September 24, 7:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church (15th & Canyon, Boulder)
Pastorale, Op. 147 (1935) Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Trio Triad
Ginger Hedrick, Flute
Jack Chen, Clarinet
Sarah Wise, Bassoon
Sonata for Guitar and Cello (1969) Radamés Gnattali (1906-1988)
I. Allegretto comodo
II. Adagio
III. Con Spirito
Kimberly Patterson, Cello
Patrick Sutton, Guitar
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Trio, op. 87 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Allegro
Adagio
Minuetto/Trio
Finale
Trio Triad
Ginger Hedrick, Flute
Jack Chen, Clarinet
Sarah Wise, Bassoon
Tributaries [Five String-Method Duos] Carter Pann (*1972)
I, IV, and V
Cassandra Mueller, Viola
Andrea Dobbs, Viola
Brass Music
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Austin Wintory is quite certain that the 21st Century is the greatest to have ever lived and worked as a composer. His career has thus far spanned concert music, film and television, video games, commercials, a wide array of so-called “digital media,” albums (both his own and in collaboration with others), installation art, modern dance and theater, and all manner of esoteric others.
His concert music has been performed by orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and Europe. Recent performances include “Woven Variations” (a miniature cello concerto fashioned from the score to an upcoming PlayStation3 game called JOURNEY), performed by Tina Guo (cello soloist) and the Golden State Pops Orchestra (conducted by Wintory); “Concatenation” for wind ensemble, by the Cherry Creek Wind Ensemble in May 2011; and “Shakes,” for chamber orchestra, by the American Studio Orchestra that same month in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly thereafter recordings began of a chamber music album in collaboration with the LA-based group “Symbiosis.”
Austin’s first major effort at a video game, 2006′s FLOW on PlayStation3, earned him a British Academy Award nomination, a Game Audio Network Guild award for “Rookie of the Year,” and a handful of other industry awards. In 2011 another Playstation3 title, JOURNEY, will be released featuring a score that Austin has worked on for over 2 years. The score will feature acclaimed cello soloist Tina Guo, singer Lisbeth Scott, as well as the Skopje Radio Orchestra conducted by Wintory.
In the film world, Austin recently completed JUNCTION, his 30th feature film score. Other recent scores include LEAVE (starring Rick Gomez and Frank John Hughes) and A LITTLE HELP (starring Jenna Fischer and Chris O’Donnell) both due out in 2011. For his score to CAPTAIN ABU RAED, completed in 2007, Austin was shortlisted as a contender for the 2008 Academy Award for ‘Best Original Score,’ and won several other awards (such as the Hollywood Music Award for “Best New Composer”) and nominations (such as the International Film Music Critic Association’s “Breakout Composer of the Year”). His strange score (utilizing sampled recordings of horse flies and babies crying in addition to a large choir of contrabass clarinets recorded in London’s famed Abbey Road Studios) for the horror/drama GRACE also received attention; the notorious Fangoria Chainsaw Awards nominated it for “Best Original Score” in 2010 and Visions in Sound radio named it in the Top 10 Scores that year.
Beyond these activities Austin keeps busy with various odd pet projects. In 2010 he launched a blog called “Allogamy” which features one (short) piece of music for every day of the calendar year; the project ended up producing nearly 9 hours of music and featuring dozens of Hollywood’s top musicians. 2010 also marked the release of a solo meditation album called “Sounds of Darkness,” featuring ancient chants and poetry by the world’s last surviving Aztec Tetzkatlipoka medicine man, Miktlan Ehekateotl Kuauhtlinxan.
Learn more at Austin’s website!
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Conrad Kehn is a composer, improviser, performer, educator, writer and artist. He is the founding Director of The Playground; a chamber ensemble dedicated to modern music.
An award winning composer, Conrad’s style spans many genres from traditional chamber pieces to aleatory, graphic scores, multimedia works and experimental rock. His music has been performed across the U.S. including Issue Project Room (NY), Audio Inversions (Austin, TX), Pendulum New Music Series (CU-Boulder), and the Summer New Music Symposium at Colorado College.
Conrad has two beautiful daughters, Brianna and Eris. They have a considerable influence on his creative output. Their artwork is featured on the covers of his scores. They often appear visually and aurally in his multimedia works. In 2008 he used their texts in his very successful song cycle for cello and soprano Bedtime Stories.
Conrad also works in digital formats and visual arts. His graphic scores have also been displayed in art galleries. He has numerous electronics compositions- many accompanied by his own video creations. He collaborates regularly with film-makers Nicole Esquibel (Flying Dragon Films) and Chad Smith (Monkey Angel Studios). These collaborations have appeared at festivals world-wide.
As a vocalist, Conrad specializes in improvisation, contemporary music, and the use of electronics. Improvisatory collaborations include Wu Fei, Tatsuya Nakatani, James Ilgenfritz, Brandon Vaccaro, and Nate Wooley. Recent concert hall performances include Bolcom’s Satires, Ligeti’s Nonsense Madrigals, Morton Feldman’s O’Hara Songs, and George Crumb’s Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death.
Conrad has performed with a variety of acts including the improv ensembles Mystery Children and Rhythmic Void, multimedia ensemble itchy-O and the itchy-O Marching Band, defunct rock bands Kallisti and Skull Flux, and of course The Playground.
Conrad is an advocate for arts education. He currently serves on the Denver Public Schools Arts Resource Council, an organization that advocates for funding and support from the Denver Board of Education to deliver a comprehensive arts education for every student.
In the summer of 2010 Conrad attended the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival as a teaching artist in the Young Composers Project. Here he worked directly with New York Philharmonic bassist Jon Deak, to learn the composition program Deak developed for young children.
Conrad believes that it is essential for young people to see classical music is a vibrant, living art form and not a museum piece. This is done through composition and new music!!
Conrad holds a Master of Business Administration Degree (2010) from the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. He also holds a Master’s degree in Composition (2000) and Bachelor’s degree in Commercial Music/Recording Technology (1996) from the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. His composition instructors include Donald Keats, M. Lynn Baker, and Bill Hill. Conrad is currently a lecturer of Music Theory and Music Technology at Lamont.
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A collaboration with the Cherry Creek Chorale
Brian Patrick Leatherman, Music Director & Conductor
The Longmont Youth Symphony
Keynes Chen, Music Director
October 14 (Fri), 7:00PM, First Presbyterian Church, Boulder
October 15 (Sat), 7:30PM, Bethany Lutheran Church, Denver
Music of Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Poulenc and a world premiere by Austin Wintory
Nov. 18 7:00 PM (Friday)
First Presbyterian Church, Boulder (15th & Canyon)
Devin Patrick Hughes, Music Director & Conductor
featuring Patrick Sutton, Guitar
Concert Prelude, a preconcert talk is scheduled for 6:15 PM in the Chapel.
Johannes Brahms – Serenade no. 1
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring Suite for 13 players
Mark O’Connor – Appalachia Waltz
Ricardo Iznaola – Vocalise
