The Schubert Club's Courtroom Concert Series
2007-2008 Season
Thursday, November 29, 12:05-1:00 PM
FREE Admission
Landmark Center, Courtroom 317
651–292–3267
Dick Hensold, northumbrian smallpipes
My Ain Kind Dearie - traditional Scottish with variations by Dick Hensold
Cape Breton Medley
Neil Gow's Lament for the Death of His Second Wife
Lass of Corrie Mills (traditional Scottish strathspey)
Riddrie (traditional Scottish strathspey)
Troy MacGillivray (Hensold)
Mrs J. Forbes (traditional Scottish reel)
Burt Family Christmas Carolers
Carrie Shaw, Jennifer Rissman,
Laura Krider, Abbie Betinis,
Bryan Fisher, Jeffrey Stern,
Chad Shultis, Michael Meyer
Bates Burt (1878-1948)
Happy Voices, Sweetly Singing (ca. 1930)
Alfred Burt (1920-1954)
Caroling Caroling (1954)
Sleep Baby Mine (1949)
Bright, Bright the Holly Berries (1950)
Ah, Bleak and Chill the Wintry Wind (1945)
Abbie Burt Betinis (b. 1980)
He Might Have Come on Clouds of Heaven (2002)
Hail, Christmas Day! (2003)
Prayer for Peace (2004)
ARTIST BIOS:
Dick Hensold (B.M., Oberlin Conservatory) is a free-lance musician specializing in four genres: early music, celtic music (specifically the traditional music of Scotland, Ireland, Northumberland and Cape Breton Island), Nordic folk music and Cambodian traditional music. He performs on Northumbrian small-pipes (a quiet bagpipe from Northeast England), recorder, Medieval greatpipes, Scottish Highland pipes, Swedish bagpipes, traditional Cambodian reed instruments, seljefløyte (Norwegian willow flute), and low whistle.
One of the formost Northumbrian smallpipers in North America, he has performed in both Scotland and Northumberland, and has taught Northumbrian smallpipes at workshops in the United States, Canada, and Northumberland. He has played the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Edinburgh Folk Festival, and the Lowland and Border Piper's Society Collogue (Peebles, Scotland). He is principal composer and arranger for the Celtic-oriented quartet Piper's Crow, and also performs with several other folk groups and as part of a traditional Cambodian ensemble.
Originally from Stevens Point, Wisconsin, composer Abbie Betinis (b. 1980) currently lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota. After receiving her BA in music from St. Olaf College, she won a scholarship to the European American Musical Alliance composition program, and spent two summers in Paris as a student of Philip Lasser (The Juilliard School) studying counterpoint and harmony in the tradition of Nadia Boulanger. She recently earned her Master of Arts degree in music composition at the University of Minnesota under the mentorship of Judith Zaimont.
Betinis has received grants and awards from the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, the Cambridge Madrigal Singers, the Esoterics, the Minnesota Music Educators Association, the University of Minnesota, and the Young New Yorkers Chorus. Her work has been commissioned by more than thirty ensembles, including the American Suzuki Foundation, Cantus, the Dale Warland Singers, and The Rose Ensemble, and is published by Augsburg Fortress, Graphite Publishing, Kjos, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and, most recently, G. Schirmer.
Since 2005, Betinis has served as a Composer-in-Residence for The Schubert Club in St. Paul. She has also held residencies with The Singers--Minnesota Choral Artists and The Rose Ensemble.
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