Music

Singer-Songwriter Max Gomez Performs In Los Alamos

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Singer-songwriter Max Gomez. Photo by Paul Moore
 

By Bonnie J. Gordon
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
Taos Singer-songwriter Max Gomez will play two shows at the Posse Lodge in Los Alamos this month. An artist in the tradition of Jackson Browne and Kris Kristofferson, Gomez has a sweet smoky vocal style and his heart-felt lyrics have brought him acclaim around the country as well as here in the Land of Enchantment.
 
Gomez is at home in Taos these days, working on his second album. The first “Rule the World” on the New West record label has gotten quote a bit of notice.

“I have a home studio where Read More

Broadway Singer Performs At UNM-LA

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Broadway singer Seph Stanek performing Tuesday at UNM-LA. Photo by Nancy Coombs
 

MUSIC News:

“That guy has some pipes!” exclaimed a UNM-LA student after Broadway singer Seph Stanek sang two songs Tuesday at the College Concert at UNM-LA.

Stanek is touring with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players who performed “The Pirates of Penzance” at Popejoy Hall this past weekend. He stopped in Los Alamos for a couple of days to visit his cousin Diana Martinez of the Family YMCA.

While in Los Alamos, Stanek has UNM-LA instructor Juanita Madland accompanying him on piano. Madland invited him to Read More

Los Alamos Community: Support Middle School Band

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LAMS Band Director Ryan Finn works with his students to prepare them for upcoming regional competition. Courtesy photo
 
By LAPS Foundation Executive Director Joanna Gillespie and
The Band Aid Committee

Many of you are familiar with the Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation’s (LAPSF) work to help teachers and students in LAPS with “classroom makeovers.”

This year the LAPSF is leading the charge to refurbish the Los Alamos Middle School (LAMS) Band classroom. Working with a committee of band parents, LAMS staff and administration, (including Band Director Ryan Finn, Principal Johnson Read More

New Mexico Philharmonic Ends Popejoy Classics Series With Return Of Violinist Rachel Barton Pine

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NMP News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Philharmonic welcomes violinist Rachel Barton Pine back to the Popejoy stage at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 30. 
 
Featured on the Popejoy Classics Season Finale are three audience favorites: The Academic Festival Overture by Johannes Brahms, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and the “Organ Symphony” of Camille Saint-. Fawzi Haimor conducts. The concert will be preceded by a Pre-Concert Talk at 5 p.m. with Maestro Haimor
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Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo Performs In Los Alamos April 17

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Acclaimed clarinet and piano duo Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu and perform April 17 in the Duane Smith Auditorium. Courtesy/LACA

LACA News:

The Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo will perform in Los Alamos at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 17 in the Duane Smith Auditorium.

Presented by the Los Alamos Concert Association, the acclaimed clarinet and piano duo has won praise for its compelling virtuosity and engaging stage presence.

One of the great clarinet soloists of his generation, Jon Manasse is principal clarinetist with the American Ballet Theater and New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. His solo Read More

Public Invited To Lunchtime Concert At UNM-LA April 5

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Students who participated in the 2015 Music Theory for the Non-major class at UNM-LA. Instructor Juanita Madland is on the right. Courtesy/UNM-LA
 
UNMLA News:
 
The Music Theory class presents a public concert 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, in Building 2 at the University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA).
 
Students will perform musical pieces they worked on this semester as they explored how to understand what makes music and its emotions. The audience will hear performances by students Betty Carlson, Shane Kim, Skyler McCall, Rheta Moazzami, Nancy Nunnelley, Phyllis
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New York Singer To Perform Benefit For Los Alamos Y

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Seph Stanek

YMCA News:

Seph Stanek is coming to Los Alamos in the middle of a national tour of “The Pirates of Penzance” to hold a benefit performance for The Family YMCA’s scholarship program.

He will hold a preview performance for his “Broadway at the Y,” program at noon Monday, April 4 at the Betty Ehart Senior Center accompanied on the piano by Juanita Madland. His full benefit performance is 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 5, at the Los Alamos Teen Center where he will be accompanied on the piano by Nate Salazar.

The public is welcome to attend and the performance is free, however donations will be accepted Read More

New Mexico Philharmonic, New Mexico Ballet Present Fantastical Alice In Wonderland April 9

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COMMUNITY News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― To the delight of audience members of all ages, the New Mexico Philharmonic and the New Mexico Ballet will perform Alice in Wonderland at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 9 at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque.
 
The newly appointed artistic director of the New Mexico Ballet, Natalie Harris, has created an extraordinary ballet telling of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice stories, which are the basis of a successful 2010 Johnny Depp movie and its soon-to-be-released sequel, Alice through the Looking Glass.
 
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Teatro Paraguas: Flamenco Fiesta April 29-30

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TP News:
 
Teatro Paraguas will present two evenings of flamenco music and dance inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca, as well as selections of his poetry in Spanish and English, in commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the poet’s death, at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday April 29-30.
 
Compania Chuscales y Mina Fajardo have performed numerous times at Teatro Paraguas.  Chuscales (Guitarist, Musical Director, Composer), a world-renowned guitarist of legendary technical and musical prowess, will be joined by fascinating group of flamenco
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Los Alamos Students Chen And Svyatskaya Win Highest Prizes In Dennis Alexander Piano Competition

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First prize winner Julia Chen, left, Dennis Alexander and second prize winner Sonya Svyatskaya. Courtesy photo
 
MUSIC News:
 
The prestigious Dennis Alexander Piano Competition was held for the sixth consecutive year March 11-13 in Albuquerque.
 
This year’s competition attracted the highest number of entries of any previous year with 58 young pianists entering from throughout New Mexico and Texas.
 
Nationally, less than half-of-one-percent of all students studying piano ever prepare for a competition. However, seven outstanding young
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