Sietze de Vries, organ
Friday, October 2, 2009
This performance has been CANCELLED due to illness. Patrons and season ticket holders may choose to donate 1/6 of the ticket cost back to the series or receive a discount next season. Individual ticket holders may exchange to receive a ticket or tickets for one of the next five concerts. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. We are trying to reschedule Mr. de Vries for next fall season. —The Artist Series
Sietze de Vries studied organ with Jaap Niewenhuijse at the Gouda music school and then furthered his education in Groningen with Johan Beeftink, Jan Jongepier and Wim van Beek. In 1994 he was awarded the pedagogy diploma (Docerend Musicus) summa cum laude as the last pupil of Wim van Beek and in 1996 received his performance diploma (Uitvoerend Musicus) from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where Jos van der Kooy was his teacher. Sietze de Vries concertizes in the Netherlands and abroad, touring and teaching master classes in Europe and the United States. The recipient of many prizes in organ competitions, he has recorded numerous CDs of various periods and styles. He is increasingly sought after as a teacher and composer. This concert of organ improvisations will be performed with the Calvin Alumni Choir and with some audience participation.
*Boston Camerata
Pre-concert lecture by Timothy Steele, 7 p.m., Chapel Choir Room
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Founded in 1954, the Boston Camerata preserves and reawakens human memory as expressed through the art of music. It accomplishes this mission through live, historically informed, professional performances of European and American music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. Camerata has toured since the mid-70s and has maintained an international presence ever since. The Camerata last appeared at Calvin in 2005 to high acclaim. This concert is presented as part of the celebration of the 500th anniversary year of John Calvin, featuring post-Reformation Psalm settings. The seventeen musicians of the Camerata will be joined by the Calvin Capella.
Bizet’s Carmen
The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD
Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 1 p.m.
Enjoy the "best seats in the house" for Bizet’s exciting opera, Carmen. The Opera is known as one of the most accessible and engaging operas in the repertoire. This new production is conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin and designed by Oliver award-winning director Richard Eyre. The Metropolitan Opera’s popular series of live, high definition performance transmissions to movie theaters captivates audiences around the world and is seen in 850 venues. Don’t miss this chance to experience Carmen from the Met at our own local Celebration Cinema North (map). NOTE: This event takes place at 1 p.m.
Education outreach by Friends of the Opera (FOTO), a support organization for Opera Grand Rapids (OGR) and of opera in general.
James Buswell Trio
Pre-concert lecture by David Reimer, 7 p.m., Chapel Choir Room
Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 8 p.m.
James Buswell has performed as a solo violinist with virtually all of the major orchestras in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. His professional activities include solo and chamber music recitals, conducting, teaching, lecturing, and writing. He is noted for adventuresome programming, regularly combining standard masterpieces with works off the beaten path. He was an artist-member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. His early training was at the Juilliard School where he was a pupil of Ivan Galamian, and he continued his studies at Harvard University where he majored in Renaissance Art. Currently, he is Professor of Violin at New England Conservatory in Boston. He is also artist-in-residence at Gordon College, where he is conductor and Director of Orchestral Studies. The James Buswell Trio includes Carol Ou, cello and Meng-Chieh Liu, piano.
Gilmore Young Artist - Ivan Moshchuk, piano
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Gilmore Young Artist for 2010, Ivan Moshchuk, was born in Russia and moved to Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan with his parents when he was four years old. He is now a first-year student at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he studies with the eminent piano mentor, Boris Slutsky. Moshchuk attended the International Music Academy in Pilsen, Czech Republic, in the summers of 2006 and 2008. The eighteen-year-old pianist was co first-prize winner of the 2007 Arthur Fraser Concerto Competition in South Carolina and was a semifinalist at the Oberlin International Piano Competition in that same year. For further information on the Gilmore, please see www.TheGilmore.com.
Calvin College's Artist Series features pianist Ivan Moshchuk, HD broadcast of Carmen by Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk | The Grand Rapids Press Friday August 07, 2009, 12:10 PM
*Kevin Cole, piano
Pre-concert lecture by John Varineau, 6:30 p.m., Chapel Choir Room
Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Steinway Artist Kevin Cole has delighted audiences with a repertoire that includes the best of 20th century American music. Kevin Cole’s performances, especially his interpretation of Gershwin, have prompted accolades from some of the foremost critics in American music. “When Cole sits down at the piano, you would swear Gershwin himself was at work…Cole stands as the best Gershwin pianist in America today,” wrote Howard Reich, arts critic for the Chicago Tribune. A native of Bay City, Michigan, Cole graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy and soon after garnered the praises of legends like Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg, Hugh Martin, Burton Lane, Stephen Sondheim and members of the Jerome Kern and Gershwin families. He has performed across the country and around the world to acclaim. In partnership with the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. NOTE: This event takes place Thursday evening at 7:30 p.m.
All concerts are at 8 p.m. in the Calvin Chapel, except for Carmen which will be held at Celebration Cinema North (map) at 1 p.m., January 16 and the Kevin Cole concert at 7:30 p.m., April 29.
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*These presentations are supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, General Mills Foundation, and Land O'Lakes Foundation.