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as above, so below

OCTOBER 24 at 7:30 PM

BEETHOVEN

Piano Concerto No. 4

Jim Stopher, piano

 

MATT RUPERT

world premiere

Other Worlds

First Presbyterian Church

72 Kensington Road
San Anselmo, CA 94960
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Jim Stopher

Jim Stopher maintains an active career as conductor, pianist, composer, and educator. He has led the College of Marin Symphony Orchestra for six seasons, and recently completed four seasons as Music Director of the Joliet (IL) Symphony Orchestra.

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Matt Rupert

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Matt came to the United States at a very young age and grew up in New Jersey. He took an interest in music early on and began studying piano at age 9 and clarinet at age 10. Matt attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD.

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bruch & reicha

MARCH 4 at 4:30 PM

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MAX BRUCH

Concerto for Viola, Clarinet and Orchestra

Alexandra Simpson, viola

Kyle Beard, clarinet

​ANTON REICHA

Symphony in C Minor

for small orchestra

First Presbyterian Church

72 Kensington Road

San Anselmo, CA 94960

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Alexandra Simpson

Alexandra Simpson has traveled the world as a performer and educator: from Bucaramanga, Colombia to Cornwall, England. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, freelancing as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player in addition to serving as Music Director of San Domenico School's prestigious Virtuoso Program.

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    Kyle Beard

    Kyle Beard has been devoted to the clarinet since the age of twelve, beginning by teaching himself using whatever music he could come across at the local music store. An enthusiast of all varieties of music, Mr. Beard enjoys exploring both the new and the old in classical music, as well as the marriage between classical and folk/popular music. 

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        new music from brazil

         

        JUNE 13 at 4:30 PM

        Two Premieres! 

        FELIPE SENNA

        Danzas 6 – Concerto for Flute

        Jane Lenoir, flute

        featuring Brazilian percussion and guitar 

        ALESSANDRO PENEZZI

        Suite Paisagems da Amazônia

        Alessandro Penezzi, guitar
         

        First Presbyterian Church

        72 Kensington Road
        San Anselmo, CA 94960
         
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        Jane Lenoir

        Jane Lenoir, flutist, grew up in a family of professional musicians in Tampa, Florida and left at 15 years old to study at Interlochen Arts Academy and later Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. She has a career spanning many different styles of music, from orchestral work, chamber music, jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music and Latin Jazz, to baroque flute.

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          Alessandro Penezzi

          Alessandro Penezzi is an acclaimed Brazilian guitarist, composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist, widely regarded as one of the premier virtuosos of his generation in the Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) and choro genres. Born in Piracicaba, São Paulo, in February 1974, Penezzi began his musical studies at the age of seven. Demonstrating exceptional talent early on, he had memorized 400 choros by the age of 14.

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