Schubert Club Master Classes & Workshops

James Callahan- Historical Piano Workshop
with Professor Emeritus, University of St. Thomas

Monday, March 31, 2008  10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Tuesday, April, 1, 2008  10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Wednesday, April 2, 2008  10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Thursday, April 3, 2008  10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Free, Reservations Required

Prof. Callahan’s workshops will be centered on The Schubert Club Museum’s collection of historical fortepianos.  Participants will learn about the history of each instrument and experience how it influenced the music of its era.  Students should come prepared to play on a historical keyboard a composition by Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, Beethoven, or Schubert.  Prof. Callahan will have conversations with the students about their performances. 

The workshops are free and intended for early-intermediate to advanced piano students of all ages.

Each workshop is limited to 6 students, with their teachers and parents. 

James Callahan is a pianist, organist and composer.  He has made many
appearances throughout the upper Midwest performing solo piano recitals and
duo-piano recitals.  As organist he has performed in the upper Midwest, Austria, New York, and has been heard on MPR's "Pipedreams." He has written over 150 works in many genres including operas, concertos, symphonies, chamber music, as well as choral and organ works some of which have been performed by the SPCO and the Minnesota Orchestra.

Robert Mann- Violin and Chamber Music

Saturday, March 29, 2008, 3:00 pm

MacPhail Center for Music
501 S. 2nd St. downtown Minneapolis

$5 general admission at the door

Founder and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet for 53 years, Robert Mann has appeared frequently as a soloist and has recorded a number of solo violin works. He made his debut as a conductor with the Seattle Symphony during the 1988-89 season and conducted Mozart's Jupiter Symphony the following year in New York. Mann has composed more than 70 works, including an orchestral fantasy performed by Dimitri Mitropoulos.  As teacher, Mr. Mann is a mentor to younger generations of string players. He is currently on the faculty at Juilliard and teaches regularly at Tanglewood and at the Saito Kinnen Festival in Matsumoto, Japan. Mr. Mann is President of the Naumburg Foundation.

Manuel Barrueco- Guitar

http://www.barrueco.com

Co-sponsored by The Schubert Club and University of Minnesota School of Music

Saturday, March 29, 2008, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm

Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

Ferguson Hall (2106 4th St. S.), University of Minnesota School of Music

FREE ADMISSION

For more information, email: James Flegel

http://events.tc.umn.edu/event.xml?occurrence=407054

Jerome Rose- Piano

Sunday, April 27, 2008, 3:00 - 6:00 pm

Monday, April 28, 7:30 - 10:30 pm

Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University
directions

Free and open to the public

JEROME ROSE, one of America's most distinguished pianists, has been heard in major concert halls across five continents and has recorded to great acclaim.

His recordings of Franz Liszt for Vox were prize-winning. Previously, he served as the Artistic Director of the International Festival of the Romantics in London, and the Schubert and Brahms Festival at the Library of Congress.

Jerome Rose has appeared with international orchestras with conductors such as Sir Georg Solti, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Sir Charles Mackerras, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Sergiu Comissiona, David Zinman, Hans Vonk, Robert Spano, and Christian Thielemann.

Newly released on Medici is a Brahms recording of Sonata No. 3, and the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.  In addition, due out this fall on Medici is the re-release of Mr. Rose's Prix du Disque recording of Liszt's "Years of Pilgrimmage".

Co-sponsored by Hamline University

Gary Hoffman- Cello

Saturday, May 3,  3:00-5:00 pm

MacPhail Center for Music
Antonello Performance Hall
501 S. 2nd St. downtown Minneapolis

$5 general admission at the door

Gary Hoffman is one of the outstanding cellists of our time, combining instrumental mastery, great beauty of sound, and a poetic sensibility in his distinctive and memorable performances. Mr. Hoffman achieved international renown following his victory as the first American to win the Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris in 1986. He has appeared as soloist with some of the world's most noted orchestras, including those of Chicago, London, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, and National Symphony Orchestra.  At 15 he made his London recital debut in Wigmore Hall. At the age of 22 he became the youngest faculty appointee in the history of the Indiana University School of Music. Mr. Hoffman, who is frequently invited to hold master classes, has coached cellists at numerous institutions. He has been an artistic member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1993 and appears each season with this esteemed ensemble.