"West Meets East" in conjunction with the Museum's permanent collection
DATE: June 5 2004, 3 PM (2 PM 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
Note: There will be a docent-led tour of program-themed works of art at 2 PM. For tour reservations, call 839-6262, Ext. 2216, or email ghastings@ncmamail.dcr.state.nc.us by June 1.
PROGRAM
Flute and drum, two of the most ancient and individual sounds in the musical universe, unite in this innovative ensemble featuring Kate Steinbeck on flutes and Byron Hedgepeth on percussion. Together they create a blend of musical timbres, rhythmic variety and groove that captivate audiences. Their repertoire encompasses multicultural and modern works by such notable composers as Lou Harrison, Alec Wilder, Gareth Farr and Howard Hanson along with JS Bach, Spirituals and fresh new Waltzes. This dynamic collaboration of sound features the modern wooden flute, alto and bass flutes, a variety of drums along with Chinese gongs, Tibetan bowls, vibraphone and marimba.
Kate Steinbeck has concentrated on the performance of chamber music throughout her career. She has won critical acclaim for her engaging and diverse performances, innate musicality and beauty of tone. Ms. Steinbeck was a Fulbright scholar to Belgium, and she holds degrees in flute performance from Baldwin-Wallace College and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. While a Fulbright scholar, she earned a First Prize in chamber music from the Belgian Royal Conservatory in Liège and thereafter spent several years performing and teaching in Stuttgart, Germany.
Ms. Steinbeck is a founder and co-director of the Keowee Chamber Music Festival, a musician-run nonprofit organization presenting concerts in western North Carolina. and upstate South Carolina. Keowee will celebrate its fifth season June 14-26, 2005. Please visit www.keoweechambermusic.org.
Since 1997, she has resided in Asheville with her husband, Chris Abell, and her children, Galen and Lucy. Chris Abell made the wooden flute on which she plays.
Byron Hedgepeth enjoys performing on a wide array of percussion instruments, embracing classical, jazz, contemporary, and world music. His passion for drumming began with drum set, and later included timpani, marimba and hand drums. He earned degrees in education from Mars Hill College and the University of Illinois.
Hedgepeth teaches privately at his home studio in Black Mountain and at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, where he is Director of Percussion Studies. He is composer-in-residence and serves on the advisory board of the Jazz Composer's Forum in Asheville and has recorded with various artists and ensembles in the studio and in concert. As principal timpanist with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, Hedgepeth has been featured as a concert soloist.
Kate Steinbeck and Byron Hedgepeth first performed together in Asheville, North Carolina, in April 1998. They have enjoyed playing live on public radio WCQS and for numerous concerts series, colleges, universities and arts councils throughout the Carolinas. In May 2004, Steinbeck and Hedgepeth gave concerts and master classes in Belgium and France including an evening sponsored by the US Embassy in Brussels.
In March 2004, they completed Light in the Corner, their first collaborative recording which has been received with critical acclaim across the US and abroad. It blends eclectic sounds of America and Asia and evokes the vibrant beauty of primal cultures and World music.
Artist Website: www.lightinthecorner.com
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