The long-running Ojai Art Center hosts four classic chamber music concerts
each year on selected Sunday afternoons.
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The Ojai Art Center presents:
How Suite it is!
Sunday, September 15th, 3:00 p.m.
$20 donation at the door
Deng and Kron are at it again! That's right, these popular draws for the Art Center chamber music series will present How Suite it is, suites reflecting the forces of nature, on Sunday, September 15 at 3pm. They'll be joined by old and new musical colleagues- composer pianist Pauline Frechette, composer pianist Leslie Hogan, violinist Alex Fager and violist Karen Long. This program features three suites by our own 805 composers and musicians. Presented will be composers who are performers and performers who are composers. Come hear Cello Seasons by Pauline Frechette, Exigencies by Leslie Hogan and the Channel Islands Suite by Ashley Hoyer. Composer Jimmy Calire will dish up a sweet dessert arrangement for a quartet encore. All of these composers have featured at previous Art Center concerts.
Violinist Yue Deng won First Prize in the National Violin Competition in China at the age of eight. She studied and received degrees at the Oberlin Conservatory and Julliard. She participated at the Music Academy of the West and the Henry Mancini Institute. Deng has recorded with Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, Diana Krall, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Yue has performed in the Carnegie, Avery Fisher, Alice Tully, and Disney Concert Halls, and at Birdland. She has mentored and coached many young violinists in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. From 2013-2019 she was Strings Instructor and Artist in Residence at University of Alberta. Jazz great Roger Kellaway arranged and wrote an album for her titled Both Sides Now. He comments, “Her musicianship is superb. Because of Yue’s talent, I fell in love with the violin.” Yue joined the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in 2019. She enjoys a second home in Ventura.
Violinist, Alex Fager is a seasoned musician and dedicated teacher who began studying the violin at age three. By 16, he had toured internationally five times and studied with renowned teachers such as Sonnhild Kitts, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Li Lin, Eugene Drucker, and Daniel Phillips. He trained at Bard College Conservatory and integrates principles from the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method, and Timani Method into his teaching. Now pursuing Suzuki teacher training, Alex resides in Ojai, California, where he uses his extensive experience and innovative methods to inspire a love of music in students of all ages.
Composer pianist, Pauline Frechette's compositions have been performed by the Baltimore Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and at Walt Disney Concert Hall. As a singer Pauline performed with legends including Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Leonard Cohen and duets with Neil Diamond. Her albums charted on Billboard’s Top Ten, have 18 million plays on Spotify and have worldwide radio play. Pauline’s Suite “Tales of Winter” premiered in 2021 with the New West Symphony and California Contemporary Dance.
Composer pianist, Leslie Hogan studied composition at the Universities of Kansas and Michigan. Her music reflects a fascination with other art forms and the potential of music to reflect the natural world. In 1999 she co-founded Current Sounds, a new music consortium based in Santa Barbara, California. She serves on the board of the Santa Barbara Music Club. Commissioning organizations and individuals include the San Antonio Choral Society, the Ojai Camerata, First United Methodist Church of Lawrence, Kansas, Paul Haar, Denise Fest, and Virginia Kron. Dr. Hogan has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Charles Ives Fellowship, 2002; Charles Ives Scholarship, 1993), the American Music Center, ASCAP, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra. Dr. Hogan has taught composition in the College of Creative Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara since 1995.
Cellist Virginia Kron has had the privilege and pleasure of bringing to life many new works written for her. They number two concerti, four sonatas, quartets for the nature project, a piano trio, two duos, numerous short pieces and today's suite. Her interest in working with living composers stems from over 25 years playing under the baton of Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz.
Violist Karen Long is a freelance musician performing with orchestras in Southern California including the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony, Santa Barbara Opera, Santa Barbara Symphony and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra. She is grateful for her wonderful teachers Oscar Raoul Iotti, Wayne Crouse, Heidi Castleman and Pamela Goldsmith. A native of Tucson, Arizona, she is former principal violist of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and now happily resides at Hollywood Beach in the beautiful Channel Islands Harbor with her family.
Sunday, September 15, 3:00 pm
Ojai Art Center 113 S. Montgomery Street
$20 exact (no change) donation
all tickets sold at door ~ information (805) 640-1158
Violinist, Alex Fager is a seasoned musician and dedicated teacher who began studying the violin at age three. By 16, he had toured internationally five times and studied with renowned teachers such as Sonnhild Kitts, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Li Lin, Eugene Drucker, and Daniel Phillips. He trained at Bard College Conservatory and integrates principles from the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Method, and Timani Method into his teaching. Now pursuing Suzuki teacher training, Alex resides in Ojai, California, where he uses his extensive experience and innovative methods to inspire a love of music in students of all ages.
Composer pianist, Pauline Frechette's compositions have been performed by the Baltimore Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, National Symphony at the Kennedy Center and at Walt Disney Concert Hall. As a singer Pauline performed with legends including Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Leonard Cohen and duets with Neil Diamond. Her albums charted on Billboard’s Top Ten, have 18 million plays on Spotify and have worldwide radio play. Pauline’s Suite “Tales of Winter” premiered in 2021 with the New West Symphony and California Contemporary Dance.
Composer pianist, Leslie Hogan studied composition at the Universities of Kansas and Michigan. Her music reflects a fascination with other art forms and the potential of music to reflect the natural world. In 1999 she co-founded Current Sounds, a new music consortium based in Santa Barbara, California. She serves on the board of the Santa Barbara Music Club. Commissioning organizations and individuals include the San Antonio Choral Society, the Ojai Camerata, First United Methodist Church of Lawrence, Kansas, Paul Haar, Denise Fest, and Virginia Kron. Dr. Hogan has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (Charles Ives Fellowship, 2002; Charles Ives Scholarship, 1993), the American Music Center, ASCAP, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra. Dr. Hogan has taught composition in the College of Creative Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara since 1995.
Cellist Virginia Kron has had the privilege and pleasure of bringing to life many new works written for her. They number two concerti, four sonatas, quartets for the nature project, a piano trio, two duos, numerous short pieces and today's suite. Her interest in working with living composers stems from over 25 years playing under the baton of Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz.
Violist Karen Long is a freelance musician performing with orchestras in Southern California including the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony, Santa Barbara Opera, Santa Barbara Symphony and the Santa Cecilia Orchestra. She is grateful for her wonderful teachers Oscar Raoul Iotti, Wayne Crouse, Heidi Castleman and Pamela Goldsmith. A native of Tucson, Arizona, she is former principal violist of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and now happily resides at Hollywood Beach in the beautiful Channel Islands Harbor with her family.
Sunday, September 15, 3:00 pm
Ojai Art Center 113 S. Montgomery Street
$20 exact (no change) donation
all tickets sold at door ~ information (805) 640-1158
Please enjoy these short films of some of our wonderful past Music Branch performances. Thank you for your support, and stay safe!
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