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
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.
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.
bruch & reicha
MARCH 4 at 4:30 PM
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
