Music

New Trumpet Students Invited To Open House & Honk-a-thon At Los Alamos Music Academy Saturday Night

Local trumpet player Mandy Marksteiner is hosting an open house Saturday at the Los Alamos Music Academy on DP Road. Courtesy photo

MUSIC News:

Does your son or daughter want to learn the trumpet? Mandy Marksteiner is a local trumpet players who teaches private lessons at the Los Alamos Music Academy (LAMA).

She is hosting a free open house 7-8 p.m. Saturday, April 28 where children and their parents can meet her and find out more about taking trumpet lessons. Marksteiner will provide several trumpets for students to look at and try and will provide a packet of information on the trumpet, practice Read More

SFCC Spring Choral Concert May 1

SFCC News:
 
Santa Fe Community College Spring Choral Concert is 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 1 in the Jemez Rooms on the SFCC campus at 6401 Richards Ave., in Santa Fe. 
 
The program features folk songs from the United States and Wales, music by Benjamin Britten and the New Mexico State Song. The concert is directed by Fred Graham and the choir is accompanied by Margaret Coxwell on piano. 
 
The concert is presented by the School of Arts, Design and Media Arts and free and open to the public.
 
Call 505.428.1731, for more information.
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High Desert Saxophone Quartet Performs Friday

 
MUSIC News:
 
The next Sage Concert Series presentation is Friday with the High Desert Saxophone Quartet (and friends) performing at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Church of Los Alamos. 
 
The group includes:
 
David Dennison – Tenor Sax
Dennison retired from 37 year engineering career Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, EG&G Energy Measurements and General Electric Nuclear Energy Division. Started the clarinet at 8 years old and later added the alto saxophone. He continued playing through high school
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Los Alamos Concert Association Presents Pianist Garrick Ohlsson In Newly Expanded Smith Auditorium

Garrick Ohlsson performs 4 p.m. Sunday, May 6 in the Duane Smith Auditorium. Courtesy photo

 

LACA News:

Distinguished American pianist Garrick Ohlsson will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 6 in the Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos. Presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association, he will play works by Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert.

Ohlsson remains the only American to have won Warsaw’s prestigious International Chopin Competition. His gold medal performance in 1970 launched a career that takes him to great concert halls around the globe.

A native of White Plains, NY, Ohlsson studied Read More

Harmaleighs Return To Perform In Los Alamos

Harmaleighs will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Fuller Lodge. Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

Jonathan Lathrop of Live In Los Alamos concerts is once again presenting The Harmaleighs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Fuller Lodge.

The Harmaleighs are a duo based in Nashville whose sophomore album was released shortly after they played to a near sold-out crowd in Los Alamos last February. Glide magazine wrote of that work, “the six-song album captures two talented and promising songwriters who exude a natural chemistry. They craft charming, Poignant folk on ‘Hiraeth.’’  

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Locally Celebrated Pianist Performs Brown Bag Concert

Pianist Charles Lieou peforms May 2 at Fuller Lodge. Courtesy photo
 

LAAC News:

Local pianist and scientist Charles Lieou will perform a varied program of Classical and Romantic music for solo piano noon May 2 at Fuller Lodge. The concert is free.

The program will include music of Mozart, Ravel and Brahms.

Lieou is a native of Hong Kong and a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory. While pursuing his PhD in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, between 2010 and 2015, he simultaneously studied piano with Charles Asche at the UCSB Music Department. Read More

Spring Fling For Pianists At UNM-LA Sunday

Performers in the Feb. 22 Musicale, front row from left, Henry Gans, Lenny Svyatsky, John Kang, Gala Nelson, Anna Simikov and Emily Xu. Back row from left, Daniel Kim, Karin Eby, Philip Ionkov, Jack Ammerman, Evan Strohmeyer, Philippa Fung, Betty Kang and Yunseo Kim. Courtesy photo

 
COMMUNITY News:

The UNM-LA Campus continues its ongoing mission of Community Outreach and Service through their sponsorship of the Sunday Musicale Recital Series, presented at 2 p.m. this Sunday, April 22, by students of teachers in the Los Alamos Music Teachers Association (LAMTA).

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Choral Evensong With Visiting Cathedral Choir April 22

The Cathedral Choir performing in May 2015 in Los Alamos. Courtesy/TOTH

TOTH News:

The 50-strong choir of the Cathedral of St John in Albuquerque will visit Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church in Los Alamos at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 22.

The Cathedral Choir, directed by Maxine Thévenot, with Edmund Connolly on organ, will sing a service of Choral Evensong with the resident Evensong Choir and singers from other parts of Northern New Mexico.  

The Cathedral Choir has toured the US and the UK and made several critically acclaimed recordings. The service, which uses the language of the 1662 prayer Read More