"American Transcendental," complementing "The Hudson River School:
Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art"
A special 2 PM pre-performance museum tour will highlight the featured exhibit for this concert; to participate, call (919) 839-6262 ext. 2216 or 2108. Advanced reservation and concert ticket required.
DATE: August 29 2004, 3 PM
(2 PM for optional museum tour)
SITE: NC Museum of Art Map
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh
TICKETS: $10 General Public; $8 NCMA Members & Students.
INFORMATION & TICKET SALES
- NCMA Box Office (919) 715-5923
- Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (919) 821-2030
PROGRAM (Details)
Cellist Jonathan C. Kramer is Associate Director of the Music Department at North Carolina State University and Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology at Duke University. Dr. Kramer holds advanced degrees from Duke and the Graduate School of the Union Institute where he completed a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and Performance Studies in 1994 with a dissertation on traditional Korean music. As a cellist, he has performed as principal of the Tucson Symphony and as a member of the San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras and the North Carolina Symphony. Among his teachers are Aldo Parisot, Gordon Epperson, Raya Garbousova, David Wells, Madeline Foley, and Maurice Gendron.
Dr. Kramer has performed extensively as recitalist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. as well as in Russia, India, Korea, Canada, Austria, Bulgaria, U. K. and Italy and has been awarded Senior Fulbright Fellowships at Banaras-Hindu University in India and at Chosun University in Kwangju, South Korea. He has performed with The Mostly Modern series of San Francisco, Mallarme Chamber Players, Duke University Encounters Series, the Piccolo Spoletto Festival, Raleigh Chamber Music Guild; and presented solo concertos with the Raleigh Symphony, Raleigh Civic Symphony, Durham Symphony, Orchestra of Virginia Beach, and the North Carolina Symphony. He has recorded for Albany Records, and Soundings of the Planet Studios.
Dr. Kramer is on the teaching faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Institute and frequently accompanies Rumi translator Coleman Barks in poetry readings. He has lectured on Music and Aesthetics in the United States the U. K., Korea, and recently at the Ramakrishna Mission in Calcutta, India. He served as moderator of the Pedagogy Panel at the American Cello Congress, and recently presented An Homage to Pau Casals: Artist of Conscience at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London with cellists Bernard Greenhouse and Selma Gokcen; and will be repeating the performance in New York City this fall.
Pianist Jane Hawkins graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London in both cello and piano. Since coming to the United States she has concertized widely, with both instrumentalists and singers. A contemporary music exponent, she has performed the music of John Harbison and Ned Rorem as well as that of Robert Ward, with whom she collaborated in two recordings on the Bay Cities label. Highlights of recent seasons include concerts and residencies at Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison; the release of "Fiddlers Galaxy"; a CD of American music for violin and piano with violinist Sarah Johnson; and the release of "Contraband," a CD of music by Mark Kuss with the Ciompi String Quartet. Ms. Hawkins has taught and performed at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Xinghai Conservatory in Guangzhou, China. Currently a faculty member at Duke University, she is a founding member of both the Mallarmé Chamber Players and the North Carolina Chamber Soloists.
Soprano Penelope Jensen has performed with such major orchestras as the Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Cleveland, San Francisco and Pittsburgh symphonies and was selected by Robert Shaw as soloist with the Atlanta Symphony and Chorus for the 250th anniversay performance of Handel's Messiah. She has sung with Ars Musica, the Bach Ensemble and the Smithsonian Players and received the Franz Schubert Prize for excellence in the singing of German art songs by the Franz Schubert-Institut in Austria.
The reception following the concert is sponsored by the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild.
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