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Greetings!

As our season comes to an end, we would like to thank everyone whose kind donations supported our 2009-10 concerts. We also send special thanks to our friends at WPAS who helped us to present master classes with world-class musicians.
 
Our final live (free) simulcast of the Philadelphia Orchestra is June 6 at Glen Echo Park. June also brings two events at Westmoreland Circle: a concert by pianist Jos� Ramos-Santana on June 12 and a master class by cellist Alisa Weilerstein on June 14.
 
Hope to see you at our June simulcast, concert, and master class!

Musically yours,
 
Kathy Judd
Executive and Artistic Director
HaskellJos� Ramos-Santana, piano
 
Saturday, June 12, 8 pm

Washington Conservatory of Music
One Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda
, MD 20816
301-320-2770 | Directions
www.washingtonconservatory.org

Free
| donations accepted

Jose_Ramos-SantanaPianist Jos� Ramos-Santana will perform a concert featuring works of Spanish and Latin American composers including selections from the Iberia Suite by Alb�niz and works by Campos Parsi. He will also perform works of Fr�d�ric Chopin.

Jos� Ramos-Santana, a native of Puerto Rico, performs a wide and diverse repertoire while being an acknowledged master of Spanish Music.  He has appeared as a soloist with such major orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Detroit Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, 92nd Street Y Orchestra, The New York Virtuosi, Casals Festival Orchestra, Puerto Rico Symphony, and the orchestras of New Mexico, Sioux City, Utah, and Syracuse, among others.
 

Jos� Ramos-Santana's much lauded guest appearance with the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall during the Sonidos de las Am�ricas Festival was described by critic Allan Kozinn of The New York Times as "powerful...Mr. Ramos-Santana played with virtuosity and precision." This event marked his third Carnegie Hall performance in one year.

A top prize winner of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, he has performed extensively in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Far East. He has appeared in music festivals such as Spoleto, Caramoor, Casals Festival, Grant Park Festival in Chicago, Festival de M�sica Contempor�nea in El Salvador, and Festival Bravissimo in Guatemala as a soloist with the Guatemala Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist, Mr. Ramos-Santana has performed at The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theatre and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Radio Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, B�sendofer Hall in Osaka, Japan, Center for the Arts in Hong Kong, China, and at the 25th Anniversary of M�sica de Camara Series at Merkin Hall in 2004.

A frequent performer on radio and television, he has been featured in documentaries, including the 1986 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition on the PBS network, "Casals Festival 1995" on the Arts and Entertainment Channel, and on "CBS Sunday Morning." In 1989 he was selected from over one hundred pianists to participate in the prestigious Xerox Affiliate Artist Program.  Mr. Ramos-Santana is a graduate of the Juilliard School where he studied with Adele Marcus, William Masselos, and Sylvia Rabinof. He has also coached with Leon Fleisher and Alicia de Larrocha.

His world premiere recording of "Glosas" by Roberto Sierra with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, has been described by the Hong Kong Hi Fi Review magazine as "Jos� Ramos-Santana who established his career as an interpreter of Spanish Music is indeed extraordinary in his performance, which excites our desire to repeat this auditory experience." Other works included in this CD are Ravel's Piano Concerto in G and Saint-Sa�ns Piano Concerto in g minor op.22, on the Fleur de Son Label.

Mr. Ramos-Santana is a faculty member at The Catholic University and at Washington Conservatory of Music; in the summers, he is an artist faculty member of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at MannesCollege in New York City and the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival in Italy.


See the complete Washington Conservatory concert season and complete Washington Conservatory simulcast season.
UpcomingUpcoming Events 
 
@ Glen Echo Park
Simulcast: Philadelphia Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, Conductor
Music of Strauss and Mozart | free
 


Alisa Weilerstein, celloAlisaMon., June 14, 7 pm
@ Westmoreland Circle
Cello Master Class: 
Alisa Weilerstein
in cooperation with WPAS
No Tickets



2010 Washington Conservatory Honors Recital
 
Congratulations to all 21 Honors Recital nominees and to the nine students who were chosen to perform on this year's recital to be held on Saturday, June 5, at 7 pm, at Westmoreland UCC Church. The program will include music for voice, electric guitar, classical guitar, piano, cello, and flute, performed by students 11 to 17 years of age. An audience reception will immediately follow the performance.

Who We Are

The Washington Conservatory is a nationally accredited community music school that serves the greater Metropolitan DC and Bethesda area from two sites: Westmoreland Circle in Bethesda, MD (the border of the District of Columbia and Maryland) and in Glen Echo Park, in Glen Echo, MD. With our exceptional international artist faculty, we offer a personal approach to music for young children, teens, and adults. No audition required. Lessons on all instruments, including voice - ensembles - jazz - early childhood classes - and much more. For lesson information: www.washingtonconservatory.org 
 
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2009/10 ISSUE 31

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Washington Conservatory of Music
One Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, Maryland 20816