Verdi - Overture to La forza del destino
Wieniawski - Violin Concerto No. 2
Ives - Symphony No 2
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Brahms Nänie
Thompson Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
Copland - Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes
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Brahms Nänie
Thompson Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
Copland - Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes
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Brendon Wilkins leads his organ trio for an evening of swinging jazz featuring the music made famous by Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott, and Jimmy Smith. The Hammond B3 organ has been an integral part of the jazz tradition, and is tied to the signature sound of all three of these musicians. Tenor saxophonist Brendon Wilkins will be joined by Chicago-based organist Henry Dickhoff and New York City-based drummer Hank Allen-Barfield.
Personnel:
Brendon Wilkins - Tenor Saxophone
Henry Dickhoff - Hammond B3 Organ
Hank Allen-Barfield - Drums
Brendon Wilkins leads his organ trio for an evening of swinging jazz featuring the music made famous by Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott, and Jimmy Smith. The Hammond B3 organ has been an integral part of the jazz tradition, and is tied to the signature sound of all three of these musicians. Tenor saxophonist Brendon Wilkins will be joined by Chicago-based organist Henry Dickhoff and New York City-based drummer Hank Allen-Barfield.
Personnel:
Brendon Wilkins - Tenor Saxophone
Henry Dickhoff - Hammond B3 Organ
Hank Allen-Barfield - Drums
Brendon Wilkins - Baritone Saxophone
Black Mary by Shelley Washington
Vigorous Tenderness is an outdoor distanced concert series that amplifies marginalized voices in classical music and democratizes new/experimental music.
A response to pandemic music-making, Vigorous Tenderness brings audiences to meaningful outdoor spaces and invites them to re-engage safely with acoustic sound. These experimental performances resemble an art museum experience, with chamber music ensembles spread across the landscape while the audience forges a self-curated path through the installation. The programming highlights BIPOC and queer composers, and features some of Maine's most thoughtful musicians.
Dvořák’s Cello Concerto (1894)
Stravinsky -Petrushka
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Miho Hazama - Conductor
Mar Vilaseca - Vocals
Brendon Wilkins - Flute, Piccolo, Alto Flute
Nathan Reising - Alto Saxophone
Evan Harris - Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Andy Gutauskas - Bass Clarinet
Hanan Rahman - French Horn
Stuart Mack - Trumpet
Summer Camargo - Trumpet
Jacob Melsha - Trombone
Martha Kato - Piano
Ethan Ditthardt - Guitar
Chris McCarthy - Piano
Brandon Boone - Bass
John Sturino - Drums
Brahms Academic Festival Orchestra
Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Brahms Symphony No 4
— Principal Bassoon —
Nicole Rabata, flute
Michael Albert, oboe
Karen Beacham, clarinet
Brendon Wilkins, bassoon
Sophie Flood, French horn
“The Light is the Same” Celebrating diversity in the modern landscape through underrepresented living composers.
Mikayla McClure - Soprano
Kate Campbell Strauss - Alto Saxophone
Brendon Wilkins - Tenor Saxophone
Jayne Sawtelle - Baritone Saxophone
Vigorous Tenderness is an outdoor distanced concert series that amplifies marginalized voices in classical music and democratizes new/experimental music.
A response to pandemic music-making, Vigorous Tenderness brings audiences to meaningful outdoor spaces and invites them to re-engage safely with acoustic sound. These experimental performances resemble an art museum experience, with chamber music ensembles spread across the landscape while the audience forges a self-curated path through the installation. The programming highlights BIPOC and queer composers, and features some of Maine's most thoughtful musicians.
A celebration of representation, diversity, and equity for BIPOC flutists and the NFA Convention Audience.
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Sextet in C Major - Ernst Von Dohnanyi
Sobre uno Mismo - José G. Martinez
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Sextet in C Major - Ernst Von Dohnanyi
Sobre uno Mismo - José G. Martinez
— Principal Clarinet —
The Colby Jazz Collective performs in the newly opened Gordon Center for the Performing Arts.
Brendon Wilkins - Flute, Saxophones
Joel LaRue Smith - Piano
Duane Edwards - Bass
RJ Miler - Drums
Mechanics' Hall is thrilled to be collaborating with Hogfish for their flagship artists-in-residence production for summer 2023, featuring artists from the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, and beyond!
This new adaptation through the Hogfish lens of the classic opera Carmen explores boundaries of geopolitics, gender, and genre.
Devised from the original Opéra Comique version and short story by Prosper Merimée, Hogfish’s CarmXn is a modern day musical with new dialogue spoken in English and other languages of the border including Spanish, French, and Dari. Bizet’s magical score comes to life across musical genres with re-imagined mariachi band orchestration featuring members of the Palaver Strings and an electronic Flamenco dance party.
Arrive early to grab a margarita and walk through the borderlands in an art exhibition celebrating artists who inspire by creating out of bounds. Dance with the cast of CarmXn at the Club Lillas Pastia and be riveted by this enduring story of love, loss, and the power of living life across borders.
“Cahill has perhaps invented a new style of opera as well: punk opera comique.” - Do Savannah
— Principal Clarinet —
Mechanics' Hall is thrilled to be collaborating with Hogfish for their flagship artists-in-residence production for summer 2023, featuring artists from the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, and beyond!
This new adaptation through the Hogfish lens of the classic opera Carmen explores boundaries of geopolitics, gender, and genre.
Devised from the original Opéra Comique version and short story by Prosper Merimée, Hogfish’s CarmXn is a modern day musical with new dialogue spoken in English and other languages of the border including Spanish, French, and Dari. Bizet’s magical score comes to life across musical genres with re-imagined mariachi band orchestration featuring members of the Palaver Strings and an electronic Flamenco dance party.
Arrive early to grab a margarita and walk through the borderlands in an art exhibition celebrating artists who inspire by creating out of bounds. Dance with the cast of CarmXn at the Club Lillas Pastia and be riveted by this enduring story of love, loss, and the power of living life across borders.
“Cahill has perhaps invented a new style of opera as well: punk opera comique.” - Do Savannah
— Principal Clarinet —
Mechanics' Hall is thrilled to be collaborating with Hogfish for their flagship artists-in-residence production for summer 2023, featuring artists from the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway, and beyond!
This new adaptation through the Hogfish lens of the classic opera Carmen explores boundaries of geopolitics, gender, and genre.
Devised from the original Opéra Comique version and short story by Prosper Merimée, Hogfish’s CarmXn is a modern day musical with new dialogue spoken in English and other languages of the border including Spanish, French, and Dari. Bizet’s magical score comes to life across musical genres with re-imagined mariachi band orchestration featuring members of the Palaver Strings and an electronic Flamenco dance party.
Arrive early to grab a margarita and walk through the borderlands in an art exhibition celebrating artists who inspire by creating out of bounds. Dance with the cast of CarmXn at the Club Lillas Pastia and be riveted by this enduring story of love, loss, and the power of living life across borders.
“Cahill has perhaps invented a new style of opera as well: punk opera comique.” - Do Savannah
— Principal Clarinet —
The final concert of the season will feature two masterworks by Schubert, the Unfinished Symphony and the Stabat Mater in F Minor, D. 383. In the concluding choral work - the heartfelt Stabat Mater - Neviton Barros will lead the Colby Chorale and the Colby Kennebec Chorale with the CSO to bring back this wonderful tradition of collaboration between our ensembles.
— Principal Bassoon —
The final concert of the season will feature two masterworks by Schubert, the Unfinished Symphony and the Stabat Mater in F Minor, D. 383. In the concluding choral work - the heartfelt Stabat Mater - Neviton Barros will lead the Colby Chorale and the Colby Kennebec Chorale with the CSO to bring back this wonderful tradition of collaboration between our ensembles.
— Principal Bassoon —
REINECKE Flute Concerto in D major
WAGNER Ride of the Valkyries
ENESCO Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1
BARTOK Violin Rhapsody No. 1
RIMSKY KORSAKOV Dance of the Tumblers
PIEZCECK Tuscan Portraits (WORLD PREMIERE)
DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian Easter Festival Overture
GLINKA Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture
SMETANA Dance of the Comedians from “The Bartered Bride”
BACH / STOKOWSKI Toccata and Fugue in D minor
WAGNER Tannhauser: Overture
Brendon Wilkins, flute
Carlos Jaquez, violin
Mark Piszczek, guest composer
Think you don’t know anything about classical music? Join us for this special program and discover how many musical pieces you are already very familiar with. From your favorite classic cartoon, to your favorite commercials and movies, you will recognize all of these enjoyable pieces. Enjoy popular works from composers such as Wagner, Dukas, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, Smetana, Bach, and more including Overture to Tannhauser, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Russian Easter Festival Overture, Dance of the Comedians, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and more! Two SCSO musicians are highlighted in this sonic spectacular. SCSO flutist, Dr. Brendon Wilkins will perform Carl Reinecke’s Flute Concerto in D major, a charismatic work of high artistic value, beauty and strong emotional suggestion and is unique in being the only flute concerto from the Romantic era. SCSO violinist Carlos Jaquez will perform Bela Bartok’s virtuoso work, Violin Rhapsody No. 1. The Rhapsody is full of the sounds of folk fiddling: improvisatory-sounding variations in the melodies and stunning pyrotechnics. The concert will also feature the World Premiere of Mark Piezceck’s Tuscan Portraits, a joyful, romping tour through Italy.
REINECKE Flute Concerto in D major
WAGNER Ride of the Valkyries
ENESCO Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1
BARTOK Violin Rhapsody No. 1
RIMSKY KORSAKOV Dance of the Tumblers
PIEZCECK Tuscan Portraits (WORLD PREMIERE)
DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian Easter Festival Overture
GLINKA Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture
SMETANA Dance of the Comedians from “The Bartered Bride”
BACH / STOKOWSKI Toccata and Fugue in D minor
WAGNER Tannhauser: Overture
Brendon Wilkins, flute
Carlos Jaquez, violin
Mark Piszczek, guest composer
Think you don’t know anything about classical music? Join us for this special program and discover how many musical pieces you are already very familiar with. From your favorite classic cartoon, to your favorite commercials and movies, you will recognize all of these enjoyable pieces. Enjoy popular works from composers such as Wagner, Dukas, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, Smetana, Bach, and more including Overture to Tannhauser, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Russian Easter Festival Overture, Dance of the Comedians, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and more! Two SCSO musicians are highlighted in this sonic spectacular. SCSO flutist, Dr. Brendon Wilkins will perform Carl Reinecke’s Flute Concerto in D major, a charismatic work of high artistic value, beauty and strong emotional suggestion and is unique in being the only flute concerto from the Romantic era. SCSO violinist Carlos Jaquez will perform Bela Bartok’s virtuoso work, Violin Rhapsody No. 1. The Rhapsody is full of the sounds of folk fiddling: improvisatory-sounding variations in the melodies and stunning pyrotechnics. The concert will also feature the World Premiere of Mark Piezceck’s Tuscan Portraits, a joyful, romping tour through Italy.
Director Jinwook Park brings a concert featuring two programmatic works by percussionist and Assistant Professor of Music José Martínez. Florence Price’s Third Symphony, a work that blends the composer’s unique voice with hints of Wagner and Shostakovich will close this dynamic concert.
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The season continues with a concert of movie and ballet music, beginning with Fauré’s Masques et Bergamasques, a work that hearkens back to the celebratory masques of the 16th and 17th centuries, John Williams’ powerful score from Schindler’s List, and the sweet, delightful wonder of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, op. 71a.
—Principal Bassoon—
The Colby Symphony Orchestra performs masterworks from the 19th century. Mendelssohn’s evocative Hebrides Overture begins the program, but Debussy’s delightful Petite Suite is the real amuse-bouche. The program concludes with Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony.
—Principal Bassoon—
Joelle Morris - Vocals
Brendon Wilkins - Saxophone
Jon Hallstrom - Guitar
Duane Edwards - Bass
RJ Miler - Drums
Oxygen is a multidimensional new piece commissioned by the NFA and composed by critically acclaimed composer, Pulitzer Prize winner, and MacArthur Fellow Julia Wolfe.
Written for twelve flutes, it will receive twelve premiere performances around the world. While the pandemic delayed many of the performances, the ball has begun rolling with premieres in Nashville; Miami; New York City; Seattle; Omaha, Nebraska; Highland Park, Illinois; Denton, Texas; and Amsterdam.
In a recent Flutist Quarterly interview, composer Julia Wolfe shares, “There is a kind of kaleidoscopic quality to the piece, as each section merges with the next, and then some resting places to breathe deeply. ... I was composing Oxygen during the height of the pandemic. I had started it before, but then somehow my ideas changed as I went into isolation. Oxygen was my way of reaching out to the light. I wanted the piece to be propulsive, alive, bright. It was my way of reaching out of the darkness.” (Members can read the full interview here.)
At the 50th anniversary NFA Convention this summer, Oxygen will receive an exhilarating 144-flute performance conducted by lauded flutist and conductor (and NFA Lifetime Achievement Award winner) Ransom Wilson.
TCHAIKOVSKY Sleeping Beauty Suite
MASSENET Le Cid Ballet Music
PISZCZEK Pangean Dances (WORLD PREMIERE)
GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F
SARSATE Playera
GLIERE Red Poppy Suite
STRAVINSKY The Firebird
KHACHATURIAN Selections from Spartacus
DE FALLA Danza ritual del fuego
COPLAND Selections from Appalachian Spring
Mark Piszczek, guest composer
Space Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra
Concerto Competition Winner
This program is a whirlwind tour of some of history’s greatest ballets, by great composers such as Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian, Ginastera, Stravinsky, Copland and more. The concert's virtuosic first half includes the showpiece, "Blue Bells of Scotland," performed by SCSO Principal Trombonist, Alexis Regazzi. Pablo Sarasate's demanding showstopper, "Playera" will prove no challenge for SCSO violinist, Jose Guedez. And continuing the orchestra's commitment to new music, the concert will also feature the World Premiere of Central Florida composer and musician Mark Piszczek's thrilling Pangean Dances. The advanced level students of the Space Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra join the adult musicians on stage for the balletic second half of the program. A special audience treat includes the first movement of Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F by Dylan Rhodes, the grand champion winner of the orchestra's youth concerto competition. Other incredible works include Appalachian Spring, Le Cid, Spartacus, Sleeping Beauty, Sabre Dance, and more!