Derek Thompson, oboe & Kerri LeJeune, piano
Rêverie – Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arr. Lucarelli
Arabesque No. 2, Allegretto schrezando – Debussy
Menuet – Debussy
Derek Thompson is currently a student at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in the studio of Katherine Needleman, principal oboist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He has studied privately with Julie Madura and Kathryn Greenbank. He has participated in master classes led by John Snow, Jane Marvine, and Nathan Hughes of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His honors have included being selected as first place winner of the Schubert Club's Bruce P. Carlson Student Scholarship Competition, first place winner of the Evergreen Club scholarship contest, and selected as a member of the Minnesota Music Educators Association's All-State Band and Orchestra assemblies.
Kerri LeJeune's background includes decades of solo and ensemble performance work, as well as instrumental, choral, and vocal accompanying. Her primary interest is her work as an ensemble pianist, collaborating directly with choirs, singers, and instrumentalists. She has assisted many soloists who have won first place awards and scholarships in area competitions. Her experience as an oboist in orchestras and wind ensembles, as well as an opera coach, complements her work as a professional accompanist. Kerri has performed as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and other orchestras. Kerri earned degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the Peabody Conservatory of Music. While at Peabody, Kerri studied with the late Samuel Sanders, collaborative pianist for Itzhak Perlman, Mstislav Rostropovich and Jessye Norman, among others.
Quentin Tschofen, piano
Program to be announced
Quentin Tschofen is a 17-year-old jazz pianist from Minneapolis. He has been playing piano for 12 years, with a concentration in jazz for the last five. He currently studies with Bryan Nichols and was a member of the Dakota Combo under the direction of Adam Linz from 2009-2011. He won the Jane Matteson Scholarship Award and the Dale Schatzlein Performance Prize from the Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education in the 2010 Schubert Club Jazz Piano Competition, and the Marie Froelich Scholarship Award in the 2011 competition. He is currently enrolled in the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire with a jazz scholarship, where he has learned that when it comes to getting paid for jazz gigs, frozen bratwurst are a form of local currency.