[Dhsbb-jazz] Fwd: Save the date and join us on February 21!

Tue Jan 26 07:17:40 PST 2016

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From: Maquette Kuper <maki.kuper at gmail.com<mailto:maki.kuper at gmail.com>>
Date: January 26, 2016 at 12:09:41 AM PST
To: Carole Darlington <cdarlington at sbcglobal.net<mailto:cdarlington at sbcglobal.net>>
Subject: Fwd: Save the date and join us on February 21!

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Capitol Chamber Players will present “Trio MôD & Trio of Premieres” on Sunday, February 21, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. at Congregation B’nai Israel, 3600 Riverside Blvd., Sacramento.  The featured performers, Maquette Kuper, flute; Deborah Pittman, clarinet, and Omari Tau, baritone voice debuted their group, Trio MôD, in Sacramento in February of 2014. They are powerful players integrating classical, jazz, gospel, and Native American styles to create original arrangements and tonal colors. Concerts have included performances in San Francisco and Berkeley as well as local venues such as the Mondavi Center, the Crocker Art Museum, and the Guild Theater.  Joining Trio MôD are oboist Curtis Kidwell and pianist I-Hui Chen.

The concert will include original works and local premieres.  Omari Tau continues to expand his “Did You Get My Text?” piece for flute, clarinet, baritone, and cell phone! Ms. Kuper will perform two flute sonatas by local composers.  The first is Prelude and Fugue for Flute and Piano by Lawrence Frank and the second is Sonata for Flute and Piano by Martin Melicharek.  Another premiere will be the Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano by Bill Douglas.

Lawrence Frank retired in 1998 from his job as an engineer specializing in heat transfer and thermal software and returned to his childhood passion of composing music.  He studied composition with Mario Castenlnuovo-Tedesco. He wrote his piece Prelude and Fugue for Flute and Piano in 1996 after a long period of musical inactivity. It is based on the inspiration of works by Vivaldi.  Mr. Frank earned several composition awards.  He wrote a flute choir work, California National Park Suite, for the Davis Youth Flute Choir that was premiered in July of 2010 and the Davis High School Advanced Treble performed New Ezekiel the same year.

Martin Melicharek is a large name in the flute community as the director of the Camellia City Flute Choir.  Dr. Melicahrek recently retired from his job as a neurosurgeon and has devoted his time to conducting and composition.  The Sonata for Flute and Piano was written in 2013 and received its first performance at the National Flute convention in August, 2014.    The three movements honor his former flute teacher Edna Comerchero who became a founding member of the Camellia City Flute Choir.  The first movement, Allegretto, was written as a piano and flute duet. This concept was extended to the last two movements. It memorializes Edna's competency not only as a flutist but as a pianist. The second movement pays homage to Edna's matriculation at the Paris Conservatory and studies with Marcel Moyse in Vermont. The simple composition style of Faure’s, Morceau de Concours was the template for the Andantino. The final movement, Scherzando- Toccata takes its inspiration from one of Edna's favorite contemporary composers, Sergei Prokoviev.  The movement incorporates the opening motif of his dynamic and very difficult, Toccata in D for piano.

Bill Douglas was born in London, Ontario to a big band trombonist father and a church organist mother.  As a teen he admired jazz heroes such as Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane. He earned his bachelor of music from the University of Toronto and then went on to study at Yale for his Master of Music in bassoon and his Master of Musical Arts in composition.  It was at Yale he met clarinet Richard Stolzman and a life-long collaboration of touring and recording began. Mr. Douglas earned a Canada Council Award to study composition in London.  He taught at the California Institute of the Arts where he became interested in African and Indian music.  He currently teaches at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.  Bassoonist Richard Ramey organized a group commission for Mr. Doulgas to write the Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano in 2015. It has three movements, Waltz Cantabile, Procession and Allegro Cantando.  This piece was begun in July, 2014 and completed in May, 2015. The first and third movements follow the basic jazz form: a unison theme followed by a written-out improvisation on the chords of the theme, and then a return to the theme with variations. The second movement uses a scale called hijaz.

Tickets for the concert are available at the door for $20 general, $15 senior and $10 student. For further information call (916) 428-7379 or (530) 756-7380<tel:%28530%29%20756-7380>.

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