June 1, 2021 | By Clive Paget,
Musical America
She may be just 22, but New Zealand-born, U.S.-domiciled violinist Geneva Lewis is clearly one to watch. The recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant and winner of the Grand Prize at the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, Lewis is no stranger to world stages either, having already played the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Next year she will make her recital debut at London’s Wigmore Hall.
Listening to her play you’re struck by the sense of a highly individual musician with a lively but respectful personality who makes interesting and imaginative choices. Go to YouTube and you’ll see she can cover a mean rock song, but that’s another story. Like all musicians she’s been experiencing a little unscheduled downtime of late, but she remains an optimist at heart.
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Debra Rentz, soprano, is Chair of the Voice Division at Ohio University. She received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance and Music History from Illinois State University and a Master of Music in Voice Performance from the University of Illinois. Rentz has performed extensively in opera, operetta, oratorio, recital, and orchestral concerts. She has been featured as a soloist in numerous oratorios, including Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Mass in Time of War, Bach’s B Minor Mass, and Orff’s Carmina Burana. Operatic roles include Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La Traviata, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Pamina and First Lady in Die Zauberflöte and Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos. In addition, Debra has considerable experience performing Gilbert and Sullivan. Other operetta performances include the American stage premiere of Emmerich Kalman’s Duchess of Chicago with Chicago Light Opera and Josephine in Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore
Young Lithuanian pianist teaches Äiurlionisâ music colors in America
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27-year old Paulius Pancekauskas â a Vilnius native and one of the most talented pianists of his generations â has created a successful method of teaching music which can be called quintessentially Lithuanian as it is based on Mikalojus Konstantinas Äiurlionisâ music colors. A graduate of The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and winner of several prestigious international piano competitions, Pancekauskas, despite his youth, has become one of the most popular piano teachers in Boston.
âI became fascinated with Äiurlionisâ art when I was a kidâ, reminisces Pancekauskas, who at the age of 6 got admitted to a school for the most talented children in the country, The National M. K. Äiurlionis School of Art. âHis musical paintings, particularly the Sonata paintings, not only touched my soul and stirred my imagination, but they a
ONLINE: Ansel Norris & Greg Zelek
Apr 27, 2021 7:30 PM
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Greg Zelek (left) and Ansel Norris close the MSO Concert Organ Series with a duo performance.
Trumpet and organ make a magical pairing in this closing of the Madison Symphony Orchestra s virtual season that makes good use of the big Klais concert organ in Overture Hall. Madison native and 2009 Bolz Young Artist Competition finalist Ansel Norris is the featured guest on trumpet. Greg Zelek has been the MSO s principal organist since 2017. Free;
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To close out this unconventional and exciting virtual season, it gives me great joy to bring back Madison native and 2009 Bolz Young Artist Competition finalist Ansel Norris for a concert with me of trumpet and organ. Concerti of Bach and Haydn will bookend this program filled with music that is both written and arranged for this electrifying pairing of instrumen
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