July 1, 2009: Bay Chamber Concerts Summer Music Festival Back |
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Performers from the Bay Chambers Summer Music Fesitval performed live in the Bangor studios. Pianist Kathie Johnson joined Thomas Wolf and Marc Johnson. Marc and Kathie Johnson performed the Swan from Carnival of the Animals. Tom Wolf played the Debussy Syrinx.
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Pianist Kathie Johnson received her B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Eastman School of Music. She appears in chamber music recitals across the country with leading instrumentalists. She was Director of Chamber Music for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra for the past nine years. She has been on the faculty of Madeline Island Chamber Music Camp in Wisconsin and lectured at Northern Illinois University and at the National Suzuki Conventions. Kathie was coordinator of Chamber Music Chicago’s Discovery Competition and the Chicago Area Music Teachers’ Association Competition and the Sonatina Festival. She was the 2000 recipient of the Kay Logan Award for excellence in chamber music teaching, a national honor presented by Chamber Music America.
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Thomas Wolf has had a distinguished career as musician, educator, consultant, author and administrator. A soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of sixteen, he spent sixteen seasons as the principal flutist and company manager of his Uncle Boris Goldovsky’s touring opera company. A co-founder of Bay Chamber Concerts in 1960, he currently serves as its Executive and Artistic Director. He has performed with the Vermeer, Muir and St. Lawrence String Quartets and appears at the Montana Chamber Music Festival and Festival of the Sound in Parry Sound, Canada. He is currently Chair and CEO of WolfBrown, a consulting firm he founded in 1983 to assist arts organizations, foundations, government agencies and corporate giving programs. Thomas Wolf holds an Ed.D. degree from Harvard University and has taught at Harvard and Boston Universities. Wolf is the author of Presenting Performances and other books and serves as an Overseer of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He is listed in the International Who’s Who of Musicians.
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Marc Johnson was cellist of the Vermeer Quartet for over three decades. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. While still a student, he became the youngest member of the Rochester Philharmonic and performed as a soloist with the orchestra. Among numerous awards, he won first prize in the prestigious Washington International Competition. Before joining the Vermeer Quartet, he was a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has recorded for CRI records and has played recitals and made solo appearances with various orchestras in the United States and Europe. He served on the Resident Artist Faculty at Northern Illinois University at DeKalb which recently awarded him an honorary doctorate and is on the faculty of Boston University. With his wife, pianist Kathie Johnson, he serves as Co-Artistic Director of Bay Chamber Concerts’ Next Generation Youth Chamber Music Program, a summer program serving primarily young performers from the State of Maine. |
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