Thursday, October 30th, 2008 7:00 pm Recital Hall St. Joseph's School of Music
Master Class with Amy Morris
AMY MORRIS has developed a professional career encompassing solo, orchestral and chamber music performing and teaching. She has been second flutist with the Minnesota Opera Orchestra since 1997, and freelances with the Minnesota Orchestra and other Twin Cities organizations. She released two solo recordings, Stories, and Theme and Variations, with pianist Susan Garrelts.
Ms. Morris is a founding member of The Indånde Duo (flute/oboe) and the Second Winds Woodwind Quartet, with whom she performs frequently in Twin Cities schools and retirement communities. In 2007, she launched the Prairie Song Project, a commissioning and performance collaboration with mezzo-soprano Katharine Goeldner and pianist Michael Heaston. The Prairie Song Project recently performed in Manchester, London and Glasgow, UK, and Salzburg, Austria.
A committed educator, Ms. Morris has been on the faculty of Hamline and Concordia Universities, and the College of St. Catherine, since 2000. She is the author of Power Practicing, a practice guide for students. In the 2009-2010 season, she will perform on the Kinder Konzert educational series with the Minnesota Orchestra.
Her performance degrees are from the University of Iowa, where she studied with Betty Bang and Roger Mather, and Northwestern University, where she studied with Walfrid Kujala.
Saturday, December 6th, 2008 1:00 Recital Hall St. Joseph's School of Music
Salon Performance and Master Class with Christina Baldwin and Jennifer Baldwin Peden
Jennifer Baldwin Peden
Christina Baldwin is a singer and actor employing integrated ways of storytelling through theater, opera, and concert performance. Christina collaborated with Theatre de la Jeune Lune over 8 years in productions such as: Don Juan Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, Mefistofele, the Astor Piazzolla tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires, as well as the title role in their critically-acclaimed Carmen. At the Guthrie Theater, she created the role of Myrtle Wilson in the world premier of The Great Gatsby. Christina’s Guthrie collaborations range from Edith in The Pirates of Penzance to playing the Courtesan in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, as well as Mrs. Fred in A Christmas Carol. She recently performed as the featured vocalist in Lorie Line’s Holiday Show. Christina has been a featured soloist with Vocal Essence, the Minnesota Orchestra, The Schubert Club and has appeared as a guest on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion." Other companies that Christina has collaborated with include: American Repertory Theatre; Berkeley Repertory Theatre; The Minnesota Opera; Skylark Opera; the Kansas City Repertory Theater; Ex-Machina; The History Theater; Nautilus Music-Theater; and New Breath Productions. Jennifer Baldwin Peden is a versatile singer/actor and arts educator in the Twin Cities. Over the last several years she has appeared in operas and musicals with such local companies as Theatre de la Jeune Lune, the Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Orchestra, Nautilus Music-Theater, Skylark Opera, Great American History Theatre, Minnesota Opera, and nationally with American Repertory Theatre andBerkeley Repertory Theatre. Jennifer’s singing talents are spotlighted in the film Drop Dead Gorgeous and in a Dutch animated film Jona/Tomberry which won the Grand Prix Canal at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in 2005. Jennifer and her sister Christina Baldwin along with Skylark Opera bring Opera Demystified, a fun and irreverent opera education outreach program,to hundreds of Twin Cities area high school kids each year. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University and a Master of Music degree from the University of Minnesota.
Saturday, January 17th, 2009 1:00 pm Recital Hall St. Joseph's School of Music
Master Class with Aaron Janse
AARON JANSE has performed across the globe as both a violinist and violist. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at venues such as Lincoln Center's Alice Tully and Avery Fisher Halls, Kennedy Center's Concert Hall, and Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall.
As a violist, Janse has performed, toured, and recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Bernard Haitink, Daniel Barenboim, and Simon Rattle. He has also performed many times as a violist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival.
He has collaborated in chamber music performances with such esteemed artists as Gil Shaham, Alicia DeLarrocha, Joseph Silverstein, Charles Castleman, and Stephen Hough in such venues as the Aspen Music Festival, the Linton Series in Cincinnati, Sommerfest in Minneapolis, and the Las Vegas Music Festival. As a violinist with the Minnesota Orchestra, Janse has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.
A recipient of the Fritz Kreisler Scholarship, Janse received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay and Joel Smirnoff. His chamber music studies included extensive work with Felix Galimir, Joseph Fuchs, and Zoltan Szekely as well as the members of the Guarneri and Juilliard string quartets. While at Juilliard, Janse served as a teaching fellow for Dorothy DeLay as well as concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra.
