CLASSICAL MUSIC SOIREE
These Classical Music Soirees are for all those who truly love &
appreciate classical music.
The International Concert Tour Programme, at Art Chamber, Calangute-Goa
presents:
14th Programme
Date : Thursday, February 3, 2012
Time : 7:30 pm
Venue: Art Chamber, Calangute, Goa
The McGowan Duo
Ned McGowan, flute
Keiko Shichijo-McGowan, piano
Please note the date for seat reservation
RSVP 9823217435
The Programme:
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Syrinx (1913) – flute solo
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1894)
Preludes Book 2: XII. Feux d'artifice (Fireworks) (1913) – piano solo
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Bagatelle #4 (1908)
Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík (1907)
1. The Peacock
2. At the Jánoshida fairground
3. White Lily
pause
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030 (1736-37)
1. Andante
2. Largo e dolce
3. Presto
Ned McGowan (1970)
Chamundi Hill (2011)*
Keiko Shichijo-McGowan studied at the "Toho Gakuen University of Music
in Tokyo", and received her bachelor degree in 2000. During her study
in University, she started to learn fortepiano and harpsichord. From
2000, she started to study fortepiano in the "University of Art Tokyo",
and finished her studies with a masters degree for fortepiano in 2002.
She started her fortepiano-studies under the guidance of Prof. Stanley
Hoogland at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2002, and received her
masters degree in 2008. She has also broadened her knowledge of
keyboard instruments by studying organ with Prof. Pieter van Dijk. She
continued her study in Ghent Conservatory, specializing in contemporary
music, under the guidance of Prof. Daan Vandewalle, received her post
master diploma in 2010 with a highest honor.
In 2004, Keiko won the top prize at the International Early Music
Competition in Brugge, as well as the Minkoff Prize from the music
publisher, Edition Minkoff. In 2006, she won the 1st prize at
International Early Music Competition in Brugge in the Mozart ensemble
category, with her duo partner, violinist Yukie Yamaguchi. In 2009, she
won the 1st prize at the International Early Music Competition in
Trossingen “A Tré” as “Trio Otono” with violinist Yukie Yamaguchi and
with cellist Gideon den Herder.
As a fortepiano specialist, as well as a pianist, she performs in major
festivals throughout Europe as well as in Japan. Since 2009 she has been
an official accompanist at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
www.keikoshichijo.com
“Ned McGowan’s music strives for an idiom in which various musics –
American popular, European classical and avant-garde, Carnatic, a
fascination with proportionally intricate rhythms, the use of microtones
in the search for new subtleties of melody – and many others, rub
against each other and generate new meanings.” This is how musicologist
Bob Gilmore describes composer and flutist Ned McGowan, who was born in
the United States in 1970 and has been living in the Netherlands since 1994.
In his debut in Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra in
April 2008, he “proved there’s still plenty of life in old-fashioned
virtuosity with “Bantammer Swing,” a playful, athletic concerto for his
unwieldy contrabass flute," according to Steve Smith of the New York Times.
His music is available on many CD recordings and has been performed
throughout Europe, North America and Asia. Ensembles and festivals that
have commissioned McGowan include the American Composers Orchestra,
Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra, Zephyr String Quartet, Calefax reed
quintet, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Netherlands Flute
Orchestra and the Grachten and MATA festivals. As co-founder of the
Amsterdam based Karnatic Lab Foundation, he curates a record label and a
monthly concert series dedicated to new music. Ned also teaches
composition at the Faculty for Art, Media and Technology in the
Netherlands and a Carnatic Practices course to masters students at the
Conservatory of Utrecht.
www.nedmcgowan.com
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