MAW Aug 4

by Genevieve Rhiger

April 21, 2015

Music Academy faculty artists and visiting artists from the New York Philharmonic join forces in the West Coast Premiere of Steve Reich’s Quartet, a duo for clarinets with piano by Ponchielli, contemporary composer Joseph Turrin’s accented Fandango, and a string trio by Ernő von Dohnányi, the grandfather of famed conductor Christoph von Dohnányi.

Downtown Santa Barbara restaurant Seagrass will offer perks for pre-concert dining. Simply show your tickets to your server and enjoy!

Program:

Steve Reich: Quartet (West Coast premiere)
Michael Werner, Daniel Druckman* vibraphones / Conor Hanick, Han Chen** pianos

Ponchielli: Il Convegno, Divertimento for two clarinets
Richie Hawley, Anthony McGill* clarinets / Natasha Kislenko piano

Joseph Turrin: Fandango
Paul Merkelo trumpet / Alan Baer* tuba/ Margaret McDonald piano

von Dohnányi: Serenade
Sheryl Staples* violin / Cynthia Phelps viola / Carter Brey* cello

*New York Philharmonic visiting artists
**Academy fellow

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MAW July 28

by Genevieve Rhiger

April 21, 2015

Formerly known as Tuesdays @ 8, the Music Academy Festival Artists Series moves to the Lobero Theatre for seven outstanding chamber ensemble concerts featuring Academy faculty, fellows, and guest artists.

Baroque specialist Nicholas McGegan joins Academy faculty and fellows in four of the iconic Bach Brandenburg Concertos.

Downtown Santa Barbara restaurant Seagrass will offer perks for pre-concert dining. Simply show your tickets to your server and enjoy!

Program:

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 6
Kathleen Winkler violin / Alexander Treger violin / Stephen Bryant violin / Richard O’Neill viola / David Geber cello / Nico Abondolo double bass / Jim Walker flute / Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida oboe / Benjamin Kamins bassoon / Julie Landsman horn / Paul Merkelo trumpet / Nichoals McGegan harpsichord / Academy fellows

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MAW July 21

by Genevieve Rhiger

April 21, 2015

TWO musicians will perform Academy alumnus James Stephenson’s Vignettes. The JACK QUARTET + Thomas Adès in his Piano Quintet = FIVE, and Louis Spohr’s Nonet will conclude the program.

Downtown Santa Barbara restaurant Seagrass will offer perks for pre-concert dining. Simply show your tickets to your server and enjoy!

Program:

James Stephenson (‘01): Vignettes
Paul Merkelo trumpet / Michael Werner percussion

Thomas Adès: Piano Quintet
JACK Quartet / Thomas Adès piano

Spohr: Nonet
Kathleen Winkler violin / Karen Dreyfus viola / David Geber cello / Nico Abondolo double bass / Timothy Day flute / Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida oboe / Richie Hawley clarinet / Benjamin Kamins bassoon / Julie Landsman horn

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MAW July 14

by Genevieve Rhiger

April 21, 2015

This evening’s program celebrates French music and style on Bastille Day, including a Ravel Sonata for violin and cello and Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C Minor.

Downtown Santa Barbara restaurant Seagrass will offer perks for pre-concert dining. Simply show your tickets to your server and enjoy!

Program:

Couperin: Concert Royeux No. 1
Timothy Day flute / Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida oboe / Benjamin Kamins bassoon / Nico Abondolo double bass

Ravel: Sonata
Jorja Fleezanis violin / Alan Stepansky cello

Pierre Boulez: Une page d’ephéméride
Conor Hanick piano

Fauré: Piano Quartet in C Minor
Glenn Dicterow violin / Karen Dreyfus viola / David Geber cello / Jonathan Feldman piano

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MAW July 7

by Genevieve Rhiger

April 21, 2015

In this evening’s program Academy faculty will perform sonatas by Hungarian (Leo Weiner) and Israeli (Lev Kogan) composers, a world premiere sonata by American contemporary composer Pierre Jalbert, and Brahms’ Sonata in D Minor for violin and piano.

Downtown Santa Barbara restaurant Seagrass will offer perks for pre-concert dining. Simply show your tickets to your server and enjoy!

Program:

Weiner: Sonata No. 2
Kathleen Winkler violin / Jonathan Feldman piano
Pierre Jalbert: Sonata (world premiere)
Richie Hawley clarinet / Conor Hanick piano
Kogan: Hassidic Suite
Julie Landsman horn / Hiromi Fukuda piano
Brahms: Sonata in D Minor
Glenn Dicterow violin / Martin Katz piano

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MAW June 30

by Genevieve Rhiger

April 21, 2015

The evening, enjoy Mozart’s delightful Serenade for winds and his Quintet for strings, along with Schumann’s imaginative Fairy Tales for clarinet, viola, and piano.

Downtown Santa Barbara restaurant Seagrass will offer perks for pre-concert dining. Simply show your tickets to your server and enjoy!

Program:

Mozart: Serenade No. 12 in C Minor, K. 388
Eugene Izotov oboe / Richie Hawley clarinet / Dennis Michel bassoon / Julie Landsman horn / Academy fellows

Schumann: Fairy Tales(Märchenerzählungen)
Cynthia Phelps viola / Richie Hawley clarinet / Jeremy Denk piano

Mozart: Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515
Jorja Fleezanis violin / Kathleen Winkler violin / Cynthia Phelps viola / Karen Dreyfus viola / Alan Stepansky cello

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MAW June 23

by Genevieve Rhiger

April 21, 2015

The evening’s program includes a contemporary brass piece by former faculty artist and fellow Anthony Plog (’68), a melodic trio by 19^th century composer Carl Reinecke, and a performance of Brahms’ Trio in B Minor.

Downtown Santa Barbara restaurant Seagrass will offer perks for pre-concert dining. Simply show your tickets to your server and enjoy!

Program:

Anthony Plog: Octet
Barbara Butler trumpet / Charles Geyer trumpet / Mark Lawrence trombone / Academy fellows

Reinecke: Trio
Eugene Izotov oboe / Julie Landsman horn / Margaret McDonald piano

Brahms: Trio in B Minor
Glenn Dicterow violin / Alan Stepansky cello / Jonathan Feldman piano

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KCLU – Ask Me Another

by Genevieve Rhiger

April 8, 2015

KCLU is bringing Ask Me Another, NPR’s and WNYC’s Brooklyn-based public radio program, to Santa Barbara to tape in front of an audience at the Lobero Theatre!

Just weeks before his hit AMC show Mad Men comes to a close, show creator Matthew Weiner is teaming up with a whole different set of uncouth New Yorkers. As the designated VIP (Very Important Puzzler) on May 2, Weiner will face a round of mind-stirring Ask Me Another trivia prepared just for him and will also sit down with Eisenberg for an on-stage interview.

Ask Me Another will offer audiences an evening of comedy, music, tap-your-pencil-on-your-head trivia, and with the Mad Men mastermind in the house, libations will be part of the mix.

Ophira Eisenberg & Partners – house musician Jonathan Coulton and puzzle guru Will Hines – will also challenge contestants with rounds of trivia, word games and puzzles. Local smarties who think they have the wit and wiles to compete in an Ask Me Another game round at the Lobero Theatre can apply at amatickets.org. Warning: impersonations, puns, math, cover songs, singing and dancing are involved in this process.

The show will air on public radio stations around the country the weekend of the Mad Men series finale – May 16/17. Ask Me Another is heard on KCLU Sundays at 1PM PT and Mondays at 9PM.

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Danceworks 2015

by Genevieve Rhiger

April 2, 2015

In September 2015, Adam Barruch Dance will be the DANCEworks company-in-residence at Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre, beginning work on a Dance Theater interpretation based on highlights of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. In this exploration of the classic work, movement will be utilized to accentuate Sondheim’s brilliant score.

Mentored by acclaimed Canadian artist, Margie Gillis, Adam Barruch will work with a company of six performers to begin the process of discovering the corporeal language that will eventually become an evening length Dance Theatre production of the acclaimed musical. Using Barruch’s gestural and emotionally charged language, audiences will be taken deeper into the psychological realms of these complex and emotionally charged characters.

**This work contains scenes of nudity and violence. Parental discretion is advised.

On September 25 & 26–at the end of the four-week residency–there will be two preview performances of the new work alongside other repertory by the company.

Learn more and see more behind-the-scenes photos and videos at SBDANCEworks.com

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King Sunny Ade

by Genevieve Rhiger

March 31, 2015

Canceled Due to Travel Visa Issues

Refunds will be issued automatically for any credit card sales, please contact the box office at 805-963-0761 if payment was made in cash.

More information from King Sunny Ade’s management:

We deeply regret to report that, as result of a worldwide computer system breakdown within The Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, US Consulates have been unable to issue visas. The State Department has provided no specific timeline as to when this problem will be corrected. Once it is fixed, priority will be given to medical and humanitarian cases only. Performers and artists will not be given priority. This is a worldwide problem, not specific to only a few consulates, and affecting both immigrant and non-immigrant processing. Due to the uncertainty surrounding this unfortunate situation, we are forced to announce the cancellation of King Sunny Ade’s remaining tour dates in both the US and Canada.

King Sunny Ade, the “King of Juju Music,” is one of the most influential world musicians of all time, famous for his dance-inspiring hybrid of western pop and traditional African music.

“King Sunny is to Nigerians what James Brown has been to Americans.” – Philadelphia Inquirer

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Art Garfunkel

by Genevieve Rhiger

March 30, 2015

Folk-pop icon Art Garfunkel is best known as the lead vocalist in Simon and Garfunkel, as well as a string of solo hits. Don’t miss this legendary performer as he shares an intimate evening of his music, poetry and stories.

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Notes for Notes 2015

by Genevieve Rhiger

March 23, 2015

CAE736DD-7CD2-4FE1-87ED-9EEC4ECD5FD2[1] Peter Frampton is one of the most celebrated artists and guitarists in rock history. At 16, he was lead singer and guitarist for the British band the Herd. At 18, he co-founded one of the first super groups, seminal rock act Humble Pie. His session work includes collaborations with such legendary artists as George Harrison, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ringo Starr, John Entwistle and many others. His fifth solo album, the electrifying Frampton Comes Alive!, is one of the top-selling live records of all time.

Proceeds to benefit Notes for Notes, a non-profit organization that designs, equips, and staffs after-school recording studios inside Boys & Girls Clubs across the U.S. Learn more at NotesForNotes.Org

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SBYET – Into the Woods

by Genevieve Rhiger

March 11, 2015

It is a big year for Sondheim fans. As Into the Woods journeys onto the big screen this holiday season, Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre is poised to infuse this beloved myriad of fairy tales-gone-wrong with the extraordinary talent and spirit of their actors. SBYET’s ninth season at the Lobero is sure to astound even the most seasoned Broadway audiences. As the witch says, “Go to the wood!” and enjoy four performances.

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Nachle Deewane

by Genevieve Rhiger

March 5, 2015

UCSB student organization, Dhadkan, is proud to announce its national dance competition to be hosted at Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre on April 11. Nachle Deewane will feature nine collegiate Indian dance teams – in two styles: Bollywood fusion and bhangra – from all over the country competing for the top prize. In addition, the audience will be treated to a special guest performance by Indian popstar, Arjun. The teams include veterans of renowned competitions such as Bollywood America, Jhoomti Shaam, Bollywood Berkeley, and Bruin Bhangra. All proceeds from the event will go towards assisting non-profit organization, Ekal Vidyalaya.

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SBDI 2015

by Genevieve Rhiger

March 2, 2015

Santa Barbara Dance Institute (SBDI) has brought high-quality, high-impact educational dance programs directly into Santa Barbara County schools and organizations for ten years.

This year’s show, entitled Ten Years, Ten Lessons, will feature over 300 energetic young performers from elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the county, as well as special guest performers including school teachers, parents, and community leaders. Ten Years, Ten Lessons is an inspiring hour of dance and music that is perfect for the whole family.

Awarded Santa Barbara Independent’s “Best Youth Performance” by Elizabeth Schwyzer in 2010, and coined the, “Feel-Good Show of the Year,” by County Arts Commissioner Ginny Brush, we look forward to your presence. As Bill Cirone, County Superintendent of Schools says, “This is one show you won’t want to miss!”

Ten Years, Ten Lessons is a joyful and thoughtful reflection on the lessons learned over these past years. Lessons such as: “Focus on the Journey, Not the Destination”, “Believe in Yourself”, “Take a Stand” and “Anything is Possible” are illustrated through energetic dancing and inspirational quotations.

It is easy for both children and adults to become so consumed by achieving a goal or so distracted by everything around them that they forget to notice how their actions affect others, to see other pathways toward happiness, or to simply take time to smell the roses! “Ten Years, Ten Lessons”, is a fond look back at the things that have helped all of us at SBDI focus on the bigger picture of why we are here.

SBDI’s mission is to provide educational dance programs that help children develop discipline, a standard of excellence, and a belief in themselves that will carry over into all aspects of their lives.

If you are interested in programing, please contact rosalina@sbdi.org.

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