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Jacob Ter Veldhuis (b. 1951): Lipstick for flute, alto flute, and boombox
Walter Gieseking (1895-1956): Sonatine for flute and piano
Paul Hayden (b. 1956): Grand Mamou for flute and piano
Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962): Rapid Fire for solo flute
Ian Clarke (b. 1964): Zoom Tube for solo flute
Sunday, January 27, 2008 • 5:30 pm
Yamaha Piano Salon, 689 Fifth Avenue
(entrance on 54th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues)
Tickets: $10 at the door; free to NYFC members
Program subject to change
Katherine Kemler is the Charles and Mary Barré Alumni Professor of Flute at Louisiana State University, flutist with the Timm Wind Quintet, and a regular visiting teacher at the Oxford Flute Summer School in England. A graduate of Oberlin, she received her M.Mus. and D.M.A. degrees from SUNY at Stony Brook. Her major teachers include Samuel Baron, Robert Willoughby, and Mark Thomas. She has also studied in masterclasses with Marcel Moyse, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Julius Baker, William Bennett, Andras Adorjan, and Michel Debost.
Katherine Kemler has taught masterclasses and performed solo recitals at the Shanghai Conservatory in China and the Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts. She has also performed a solo recital in the Beijing Concert Hall and taught flute masterclasses at the Central Conservatory of Music there. In 2006, she was a guest artist at the Slovenian Flute Festival and during the summer of 2007 performed and taught at the Festiv'Academies in France. She has performed at nine National Flute Association conventions and was featured on the cover of Flute Talk (December 2006) and The Flutist Quarterly (2003).
Katherine Kemler has appeared as soloist with the British Chamber Orchestra in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and with the Orchestra Medicea Laurenziana throughout Italy. She has toured extensively as a soloist, with the Kemler/Benjamin flute/harp duo, and with the Timm Wind Quintet in China, England, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, France, and throughout the United States, and made solo broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and National Public Radio. She has recorded three CDs with Centaur Records: Virtuoso American Flute Works; Sky Loom, for flute and harp; and Sonatina with pianist Michael Gurt. She has also recorded on the Orion and Opus One Labels. Her new CD, Lipstick, will be released in 2008. For more information, please visit www.katherinekemler.com.
Michael Gurt received his early musical training from his father, Joseph Gurt, and from Dorothy Taubman. He earned his BM degree from the University of Michigan School of Music, where his teacher was Louis Nagel, and received the Stanley Medal. Gurt did his graduate work with Martin Canin at the Juilliard School. In 1982, Mr. Gurt won first prize in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and he has also been a prizewinner in international competitions held in Sydney, Australia, and Pretoria, South Africa. He has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Capetown Symphony, and the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, South Africa, among others. Mr. Gurt has performed solo recitals in Alice Tully Hall, Ambassador Auditorium in Los Angeles, Orchestra Hall in Detroit, City Hall in Hong Kong, the Victorian Arts Center in Melbourne, Australia, Baxter Hall in Capetown, South Africa, and the Attatürk Cultural Center in Istanbul, Turkey. He has appeared as guest artist with the Tákacs String Quartet and recently performed at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. In 1983, Mr. Gurt was featured on a nationwide PBS broadcast, performing the Rachmaninoff Third Concerto with the Utah Symphony. He has recorded Anthony Iannaccone's Keyboard Essays for Redwood Records.
Mr. Gurt is the Manship Professor of piano at Louisiana State University. He is also the head of the piano department at the Sewanee Summer Music Center, and he serves as piano chairman of the Louisiana Music Teachers Association. He has taught at two summer music seminars held at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan.
