The Schubert Club's Courtroom Concert Series
2007-2008 Season
Thursday, December 13, 12:05-1:00 PM
FREE Admission
Landmark Center, Cortile
651-292-3267
Nicholas Donatelle, cello
With Jieun Kim, piano & Woobin Park, piano
J.S. Bach (1685 –1750)
Suite for Unaccompanied Violoncello in C, BWV 1009
Prelude
Gigue
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Seven Variations on "Bei Mannern welche Liebe fühlen" from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte
Gabriel Faure (1845 – 1924)
Papillon (Butterfly), Op. 77
Elegie in c-minor, Op. 24
Dr. Reid Smith and LaWayne Leno, duo piano
Children’s March in G Major, D. 928 - Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Fantasy in F minor, Op. 103, D. 940 - Franz Schubert
ARTIST BIOS:
Dr. Reid Smith began piano lessons when he was 4. He was accompanying the choirs at church when six years old, gave his first solo recital tour when 8 years old, and was teaching the beginners in his piano teacher’s studio when he was nine. At 11 he performed a Mozart Concerto with orchestra, and soon after won his first national piano competition.
A graduate of Boston University and the Vienna Hochschule fur Musik, Austria, Reid received his Masters in Piano Performance from The Juilliard School where he was awarded a full scholarship. He received his DMA from the University of Minnesota. His doctoral thesis—“An Analysis of the Structural, Technical and Pedagogical Aspects of the Chopin Etudes Opus 10 and Opus 25” included a supporting performance of the 24 Chopin Etudes.
Reid has taught piano at The Juilliard School, Kent State University, St. John’s University, and the University of Minnesota. His teaching combines the finest aspects of the German School (from Leonard Shure, BU, assistant to Artur Schnabel), with the Russian School (from Sascha Gorodnitzki, Juilliard), and the Leschetizky method (from Noel Flores, Vienna).
He toured as a soloist throughout the United States to critical acclaim under the auspices of Columbia Artists for eight seasons, and has performed concerti with several orchestras. Reid has recorded two Chopin CDs: Volume One includes the 4 Ballades and other major works, Volume Two consists of the 24 Etudes Op. 10 and 25.
Dr. Smith, along with 3 assistants, teaches a large class of private students and he has taught piano at Minnehaha and Mounds Park Academies for 18 years. Reid is a Master Certified Teacher with the Minnesota Music Teachers Association and several of his students have won college music scholarships.
He was on the faculty of the 2007 International Yves Nat Piano Festival in Serignan, France. Oxana Yablonskaya of the Juilliard School and Reid were the two featured solo artists at the festival. Reid brought 21 students from the United States to the festival.
LaWayne Leno was born and raised in North Dakota where he began his piano training with Belle Mehus. He continued his studies in New York City with Oxana Yablonskaya, a valued member of the Juilliard faculty for nearly 30 years. Recently, LaWayne coached with Argerich Competition winner Alexandr Dossin at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire.
LaWayne is a 1984 graduate of Mary College and now lives in St. Paul Minnesota where he teaches piano with Reid Smith. Previously he taught at the Mehus Conservatory in Bismarck, ND.
This past summer Reid and LaWayne performed several of Schubert’s four-hand piano pieces, including the F minor Fantasy, as part of a faculty ensemble concert at the 2007 Yves Nat International Music Festival in Serignan, France.
Nick Donatelle is currently a student at the University of Minnesota, studying with Tanya Remenikova and is in his third year. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he was first introduced to the cello when he was four at the National Music Camp of Canada where his parents taught over the summer. After studying in the Suzuki program, he took lessons with Winona Zelenka of the Toronto Symphony before moving to Chicago and focusing on high school and hockey. While in Canada, Nick partook in several competitions in the local Toronto area and was also chosen as one of two Canadians to go to Chicago during a Suzuki Convention. Nick decided to go into music late into high school and decided to come to the University of Minnesota to study with his current teacher, Tanya Remenikova. He was a recipient of the first prize for the MNSOTA Competition, the first prize of the Schubert Club Scholarship Competition in College Strings, and was one of three principle cellists of the Texas Festival Orchestra at the International Music Festival at Roundtop this past summer. Nick also enjoys chamber music and has studied many works ranging from Beethoven to Britten. After finishing his Undergrad, Nick plans to pursue a Masters in Performance and hopes to eventually develop a career as an orchestral and concert cellist.
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