Sponsored by the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
Mother & daughter duo Catherine Rodland and Catherine Carson will perform works for organ and violin, exploring folk music and the music of female composers.
Catherine Rodland is a prizewinner in several competitions including the American Guild of Organists Young Artists Competition, the Calgary International Organ Competition, and the International Organ Competition at the University of Michigan for which she received first prize. She concertizes extensively throughout the United States and Canada.
Ms. Rodland currently serves as Artist in Residence at St. Olaf College. In 2010 she released two CDs: “Dedication”, and “American Weavings”, the latter recorded in Boe Chapel at St. Olaf College with violist and duo partner Carol Rodland. The Rodland Duo is managed by Concert Artists Cooperative. Ms. Rodland received both the MM and DMA from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY where she was a student of Russell Saunders.
Catherine Carson, a violinist from Northfield, MN, is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School studying with Laurie Smukler. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Renée Jolles, Catherine served as concertmaster of both the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra and the Eastman Philharmonia, and won the position for a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade. Catherine has also won prizes in numerous competitions, including the Young Arts, Schubert Club Scholarship, Thursday Musical, Young People’s Symphony Concert Association (YPSCA), Rochester Music Guild and Mary West Solo Competitions, and as a result of the YPSCA competition, at which Catherine won the grand prize, she performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Minnesota Orchestra.
As an avid chamber musician, Catherine is currently in the Honors Chamber Program at Juilliard with her string quartet DragonBoot, and has worked with Merry Peckham, members of the Ying Quartet, members of the Juilliard Quartet, David Bowlin, Gwen Krosnick, Natasha Brofsky, Laurie Smukler, Don Weilerstein, Raman Ramakrishnan, Samuel Rhodes, and Joel Krosnick. Catherine has attended prestigious summer festivals such as Bowdoin International Music Festival, California Summer Music, Bravo! Summer Music, Pienza Music Festival, The Perlman Music Program, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival. Previous teachers include Sally O’Reilly and Susan Crawford; Catherine has also worked with Robin Scott, Almita Vamos, and Ayano Ninomiya, and has performed in masterclasses with Gil Shaham, Itzhak Perlman, Jennifer Koh, Gwen Thompson, Nicola Benedetti, and Donald Weilerstein.
Casavant Frères, Opus 3713, 1992
3M/P. 44 stops. 36 ranks. 2041 pipes. Manual compass 61 notes. Pedal compass 32 notes.
Slider chests with EP pull-downs (externally mounted). Electric action.
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Program
Praeludium in F Major
Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn) (1805-1847)
Sonata in A Major
George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
Andante
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Air (Orchestra Suite in D)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005
Johann Sebastian Bach, Largo
Fugue in Eb, BWV 552.2
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pause
Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
Max Bruch (1838-1920), Adagio
Rhapsody no. 2 for Solo Violin
Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981)
Toccato
Florence Price (1887-1953)
La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Introduction and Tarantella
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Chapter Dinner
There will be a dinner for chapter members and their guests before the concert at 6:00 PM
Reservations must be made by Monday, November 2nd by the end of the day.
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