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Welcome
to the Music Branch
The
Ojai Art Center Music Branch offers a series of chamber
music concerts held on selected Sunday
afternoons in the main gallery of the Ojai Center for the Arts
at 113 S. Montgomery Street.We also play host to
selected special events like the one below. Please
join us.
-Sold Out Event -
An OAC
evening celebration of
"The
Weavers"
Above: an album
cover featuring the original Weavers ca.1949.
Standing l to r: Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman. Seated:
Ronnie Gilbert.
Please join us for an evening celebrating
the music of The Weavers, one of
Americas consumate folk groups on Tuesday
June 30 at 7:30 p.m. Doors will open at 7:00p.m.
Their will also be signed items donated by Seeger on view for
silent auction before the show and at intermission. A percentage
of tickets and all proceeds from these items will benefit the
OCA.
For reservations call: (805) 640-8797, information call (805)
649-4000 or go to http://ojaiact.tix.com/
Members of Work'o the Weavers : David Bernz,James
Durst,Martha Sandefer, and Mark Murphy
"With adherence
to their original arrangements, we seek to recall the spirit
of "The Weavers,"
providing an echo of their music and some insight into their
story, one that resonates ever so strongly in these troubled
times when an American's right – and indeed, responsibility
– to dissent is once again being challenged. It is therefore
a distinct privilege for us, and it is with profound pleasure
that we present the timeless music and the timely message of
‘Work o' The Weavers'.
— David,
James, Mark and Martha members of
Work
o' the Weavers
Upcoming
Chamber Music Concerts:
September 27th -
Pianists
Natasha Kislenko and Hatem Nadim
will be performing a "piano
four-hands concert." Kislenko teaches at
UC Santa Barbara and Nadim teaches at Fresno State. They will
be performing Andante and Variations,
Opus 83a by Felix Mendelssohn, "Romance
del Plata," Sonatina by Carlos Gustavino (Argentinian
composer), and The Rite of Spring by Igor
Stravingsky.
Natasha Kislenko
Kislenko has performed
extensively as a soloist and a chamber musician throughout her
native Russia, Europe and the United States. Recognized as a versatile
artist for her broad range of experience, playing pieces from
the Baroque era to the present, she has performed with distinguished
artists including Sarah Chang, Zvi Zeitlin, James Buswell, Theodore
Kuchar, Tadeu Coelho, and Leone Buyse.
Winning international
awards at piano competitions in Germany, France, the Slovak Republic,
Italy, and Portugal, she made her Carnegie Hall solo debut 1996.
Kislenko holds graduate degrees in piano from the famed Moscow
Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and Southern Methodist University in
Dallas, TX. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from
Stony Brook University, where N.Y. principal teachers included
Anatoly Vedernikov, Joaquín Achúcarro and Gilbert
Kalish.
Kislenko now on the Keyboard faculty at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, was previously at California State University,
Fresno, for five years,. and has been a faculty member for summer
festivals at the Meadowmount School of Music, NY (2003) and the
Music Academy of the West, CA (2004-present).
While favoring her native Russian
music, she has also been exploring the diversity of the piano
styles in the first half of the 20th century.
Hatem Nadim
Mr Nadim, born in Cairo,studied solo piano since
the age of 10 at the Cairo Conservatoire.He has studied with R.
Yassa, V. Fedorovtzew and V. Samaliotow and graduated with honors.He
won a music scholarsh tothe University at Frankfurt (Germany)
and continued his post-graduate studies in chamber music and vocal
accompaniment, with Professors Joachim Volkmann and Rainer Hoffmann
earning his degree.
As a faulty member at the Johannes Gutenberg
University in Mainz he taught from 1989 to 1996.. In 1989 he accepted
a coveted faculty postion at the University of Music in Mannheim
and in September 2006, Mr. Nadim was appointed staff accompanist
at California State University in Fresno.
Hatem Nadim has performed throughout Europe, the United States,
Korea and the Middle East and worked with some of the most renowned
performing artists including Leslie Parnas, Arto Noras, Michael
Flaksman, Susanne Rabenschlag, Jean-Michel Tanguy, Michael Hasel,
the Verdi Quartet, Herrmann Voss and Helene Joseph-Weil.
Mr. Nadim has several recordings, including his a complete collection
of the Mozart Violin Sonatas and Variations with the German violinist,
Susanne Rabenschlag for Avi-Music and Deutschland Radio and working
on recording the complete Violin Sonatas of Beethoven and the
German Romantiks (Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn) also with Susanne
Rabenschlag.
October 18th-
Robert Krupnick will give a solo
piani recital performing Bach's Goldberg
Variations by J.S. Bach
Robert Krupnick
Robert Krupnick has performed chamber and contemporary music
extensively in Northern California, and has taught piano privately
for several years in the Ojai Valley.
Krupnick received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the San
Francisco Conservatory and UCLA, respectively, with his main teachers
Jeanne Stark-Iochmanns, William Masselos, Andrew Imbrie, and Robert
Helps.
Krupmick inaugurated the Art Center's newly acquired piano in
a memorable 2007 performance and he returned to the Art Center
twice in 2008 to present a second piano recital, participating
in a chamber concert with Amy Hagen and friends.
In 2010- Accomplished cellist Virginia Kron
returns
And
An Enduring Thank you :
An October 21rst concert marked the debut of the Art Center's
new acquisition--a Steinway Grand Player
Piano donated by the Loebl family
in memory of James D. Loebl ( 1927-2003 ). The
piano was purchased by Loebl's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin
Weil in 1924 for their Chicago home. It was passed down to Mr.
Almer Weil of Beverly Hills, his uncle, then on to Loebl himself
in 1970 when it was brought to his Ojai home. The piano's gift
also included a large collection of player rolls, some recorded
by the original musicians.It is a great honor that the Art Center
was afforded this generous gift of music.
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