DATE: July 16 2006, 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
PROGRAM
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The first concert in the 2006-2007 Sights & Sounds series features the Chamber Music at St. Peter's in a program entitled "Human Struggle and Salvation." The program was selected to complement the museum's exhibition Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art.
Chamber Music at St. Peter's was established in 1996 and features selected professional musicians from Charlotte and vicinity who perform in various combinations as needed from a pool of 20-30 artists (very much like the Mallarmé Chamber Players in Durham).
Alan Black is beginning his 20th season as Principal Cellist with the Charlotte Symphony and 10th season as founder and Artistic Director of Chamber Music at St. Peter's.
His performance experience covers the complete spectrum of music; from classical music including chamber music, solo recitals, and concertos with the Charlotte Symphony, to appearing on stage as a soloist with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Van Cliburn Gold Medallist Jon Nakamatsu, and fiddler Mark O'Connor.
A graduate of UCLA, Alan earned a Masters Degree from Indiana University. Notable teachers have included principal cellists of major orchestras such as Ronald Leonard and David Hardy as well as Gary Hoffman and Jeffrey Solow. He has appeared in master classes with such outstanding musicians as Leonard Bernstein, James Buswell, Bernard Greenhouse and Janos Starker.
His numerous musical activities also include conducting the orchestra for the Community School of the Arts summer Band and Orchestra Camp, teaching at Gardner-Webb University and participating as a coach and performer at the Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop for Adults each May.
Awards include the $5,000 Arts and Science Council Fellowship in 1997 and the 2001 Spirit Award given annually by the Mint Museum and Royal and Sun Alliance. The Charlotte Observer honored Alan in its 2001 year-end review for his contribution to the arts community.
Alan has served as a panelist for several Arts and Science Council grant programs and was Chairman of the Regional Artist Projects Grants in 2000 and 2001.
Lynn Kompass, Assistant Professor of Voice and Vocal Coach at the University of South Carolina, maintains an active career as vocal coach, chamber musician, recital collaborator, and teacher. She has been teaching at the University of South Carolina since 2002. Ms. Kompass has participated in the Steans Vocal Institute (Ravinia Music Festival), Aspen Music Festival, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, where she worked with Margo Garrett, Roger Vignoles, and Martin Isepp. As an opera coach, Ms. Kompass has worked at the University of Michigan, University of Tennessee, Aspen Opera Theater, Palmetto Opera, and Opera Brasil. Ms. Kompass has also performed in association with Ravinia Music Festival, Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago Chamber Musicians, Michigan Chamber Players, and Chicago Civic Orchestra. Her performances this past season have included recitals at Weill Recital Hall in New York City, Strings in the Mountain Festival, University of Texas at Austin, and the International Conference of Arts and Humanities in Honolulu. Lynn Kompass received her graduate degrees in Collaborative Piano at the University of Michigan, where she studied with Martin Katz and Katherine Collier.
Violinist Jacqui Carrasco has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Mexico and Russia, including solo appearances at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and at the Library of Congress and chamber music concerts with the Cassatt String Quartet. Since moving to North Carolina in 1999, Ms. Carrasco has been featured in solo and chamber music performances at Duke University; the UNC campuses in Chapel Hill, Greensboro, and Wilmington; Music at Blowing Rock; the Foothills Chamber Music Festival; and Chamber Music at St. Peter's in Charlotte. She joined the Carolina Piano Trio in 2005.
From 1992-2002, Ms. Carrasco was the violinist of the acclaimed contemporary music ensemble Cygnus and also appeared regularly with New York-based new music groups such as the S.E.M. Ensemble, Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Ensemble, Newband and Musicians Accord. Ms. Carrasco has toured extensively with the Mark Morris Dance Group and been a frequent guest at the June in Buffalo Festival at SUNY Buffalo. She has recorded contemporary chamber music for the Nonesuch, Koch, Mode, CRI and Braxton House record labels, and continues to perform and record new music with the Furious Band.
As a noted performer of Argentine tango music, Ms. Carrasco has appeared with cellist Yo-Yo Ma in concert and on television, as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and with the New York Buenos Aires Connection at Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing. She has also been active as a jazz violinist, and her versatile skills have been featured in commercial, film and theater music, as well as on her CD Since We Met with the Jazz Strings Project. Ms. Carrasco received her B.A., magna cum laude, from UCLA, and her M.M. and D.M.A. from SUNY at Stony Brook, where she studied with Joyce Robbins. Having previously taught at Princeton University, she is now an Associate Professor of Music at Wake Forest University.
Donna Black, clarinetist and bass clarinetist, plays with the Charlotte Symphony on a regular basis. She has also played with the North Carolina Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Savannah Symphony, Greensboro Symphony and Roanoke Symphony. Before coming to Charlotte, she was the second and bass clarinetist with the Savannah Symphony and played with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra. Ms. Black has taught at Queen's University, Winthrop University and Davidson College. Originally from New Jersey, she was awarded the Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from Indiana University where she also had a Performance Scholarship and a graduate assistantship. Ms. Black teaches integrated arts (music and another subject, i.e., language arts) in several Charlotte-Mecklenberg schools through the Charlotte Symphony Education Department. In addition to a busy private teaching studio, she also coaches young clarinetists through the Community School of the Arts Beginning Orchestra and Band program.
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