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, violinist, is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree at The Juilliard School. As an avid chamber musician, she is currently in the Honors Chamber Program at Juilliard with her string quartet DragonBoot.
Ms. Carson is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and served as concertmaster of both the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra and the Eastman Philharmonia. She 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 Ms. Carson won the grand prize, she performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Minnesota Orchestra.
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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Chapter Dinner
There will be a dinner for chapter members and their guests before the concert at 6:00 PM
Details and sign up coming soon.