Show M tiMlililB UlfdBSSStC CM The beauty of Osiris D the Chamber £ On MarchSociety of Logan 1 Gomes the Choirfest ' j Plano their concert season §Q continue with the appearance of the European chamber ensemble Osiris Piano Trio on tour from Amsterdam o ' The concert begins at 7:30 pm in Eccles Conference o Center on the Utah State E University campus Tickets 3o are$5 for students with ID 1 and $15 regular Please no children under 8 years old 2 Tickets are available at the 1) X Spectrum ticket office and the 0) Taggart Student Center For additional information call Praised by the New York Times fair their “edgy brilliance and largeness in every O Q musical dimension of color dynamic range and expression” the Osiris Trio consists of three foremost Dutch musicians: Ellen Corver piano Peter Brunt violin and Larissa Groeneveld cello With Osiris Logan concert-goe- rs will have the opportunity to hear one of the hottest piano trios on the scene The grouping of piano violin ami cello demands the utmost vir- - Mhe Spectrum ticket Jfoe and )he Taggart Student Center ror additional informd-Ijtip- n cal 752-586- per-formi- 7 tuosity from its players in that composers generally write their most rigorous music for this combination Osiris lives up to this ' expectation having made its American debut in Carnegie Recital Hall in 1997 to rave reviews and continue to per- form in respected venues The Osiris Piano Trio will perform on March 1 at the Eccles Conference Center on the Utah State University campus -- Cologne Frankfurt Vienna and Stockholm In addition idle trio has made several recordings on the Channel Classics label including the works of Haydn Beethoven and Ives For their concert in Logan Osiris will bring life to the charming Piano Trio in G Op 65 of Johann Hummel a stu- - world-wid- e including Washington DC’s National Gallery and Library of Congress! Osiris has been included in the prestigious Rising Stars series which has taken them to the major European concert prize-winni- - stages in Amsterdam dent of Mozart Three Nocturnes mood music fra die night by Ernest Block the intriguing and ingenious Kano Trio on Irish Folk Tunes by Swiss composer Frank Martin and a masterpiece considered to be the finest work of its type since Beethoven Kano Trio in F Minor Op 65 by Dvorak A ' - Pre-Colle- ge '' This year’s guests include Emilio del Rosario Nelson Freire Sophia Gilmson Olga Kern and Jerome Lowenthal Del Rosario has been described as a brilliant pianist and distinguished teacher He has appeared in solo recitals chandler music Conceits and as a soloist with orchestras He is a former student of Leon Fleisher Mieczslaw Munz Emo Balogh and Julio Esteban and he holds degrees horn the Peabody Conservatory and die Santo Tomas Conservatory in Manila He is the recipient of numerous prizes awards and grants including the Steinway Prize the Concert Artists’ Guild Recital Award and the Distinguished Teacher Award 7 from the National Foundation of the Arts Freire is described in the : festival brochure as “one of! secrets in the the best-ke- - pt of this world piano” The international pfess has acclaimed him as one of the greatest pianists of our time compar- ing him to legendary greats such as Sergei Rachmaninoff - Alfred Cortot Josef Hofmann' ' Arthur Rubinstein and Glenn ' Gould A star in his home country of Brazil he has been described in the United States as a “hurricane of pianistic power” He is one of the two ' pianists who are featured in concerts during the Wassermann Festival Gilmson is a Russian-bor- n pianist who graduated cum iaude from the Leningrad (St" Petersburg) Conservatory where she studied with professor V Margulis She is the recipient of numerous awards including the first prize in the Young Artists Competition in New York City and the Piano International Recording Competition She has per-- : formed extensively in Russia Italy and the United States to high critical acclaim' Kem makes a return' visit to the Wassermann Festival where ' she will conduct a master class and is featured in a solo recital' pities have described heras “a player of enormous brilliance and passion” She Was awarded ' ng : The guests ofWassermann group qf guest artists and lecturers has been assembled this year for the Wassermann Festival at Utah State' University The 2004 Wassermann Festival takes place March 23-2- 7 on the USU campus It is a program in the department of music and a part of the School of the Arts a division of the College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences Festival Director Dennis Hirst said the artists represent ' a diversity of training and background that adds to the diversity and strength of the event Lecture topics include ‘‘Romanticism in the Piand Literature” “The Relation of Knowledge to Performance” “Rubato: When and When Not To” “Technique for the Student" “Interfacing with the Piano Machine” and “The Sound Fades ?— Help!? ' The' lectures areoffered in addition to a number of master classes conducted bythe guest Cache Children’s will be hosting Choitfest 2004 on March 5 and 6 at the Utah State University Fine Arts Cento’ The event will culminate with a performance at 4 pm on Saturday March 6 in the Kent Concert Hall The participating choirs will be individually and together This concert is free and open to the public This year they are welcoming choirs from Utah Idaho :and Wyoming The Utah Children’s Choir Idaho State Children’s Chorus Tavaci Teens and the Casper Children’s Choir Will be attending Vocal clinics and performing with the Cache Children’s Cantate and Concert Choirs The choir has invited Claudia Bigler as the guest conductor for this event 7 Biglo holds a degree in music education from Brigham Young University She taught in the Carbon School District for six years where ho vocal jazz groups were featured at the UEA convention as well as at state PTA conventions For six years Bigler directed a children’s choir iii Brigham City She is current- ly in her eighth year of teach- -' ' ing music at Box Elder High School Ho choirs Have won recognition and honors throughout the western United States and in Hawaii and Vancouver British ' Columbia In addition to her feachingduties she has been active in community theater as a musical director and as an accompanist Bigler is currently serving as a member of the UMEA State Choral Committee and is a past president of the Utah American Choral Director’s Association Recently she has directed the Junior High School State Honor Choir the' Allstate Women's Choir 'and the LDS Young Women’s Conference Choir She is ' accompanying this year!s" r Utah is married to Jeff Bigler and describes herself as a Tabernacle Choir widow ' They are the parents of four ' children and one grandchild: The rUSU campus Jjior students with 'band $15 regular tPfease no children funder 8 years old Tickets are available u D CO 1 lEccfes Conference I 752-586- 7 Trio 730 pun March 100-voi- the Nancy Lee and Perry R Bass Gold Medal at the world’s foremost piano competition die 11th Van Clibum International Piano Competition held May June 2001 Lowenthal studied in his native Philadelphia with Olga Samaroff-Stojowski in New York with William Kapell and Edward Steuermann and in Paris with Alfred Cortot while travelinganniially to Los Angeles for coaching with Arthur Rubinstein' After winning prizes in three interna-tional competitions he moved to Jerusalem where for three ' years he played taught and ' lectured Returning to ' America he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1963 and according to his bio has per- formed every where from the Aleutians to Zagreb More information including ' registration options is avail- able at the Wassermann Festival Web site -- - ' All-Sta- te Choir-Bigle- ce |