Greetings!
You are invited to enjoy
a recital by nine students who were chosen to perform on the 2010 Washington
Conservatory Honors Recital 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. Musically
Yours, Kathy
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Upcoming Events Reminder
@ Glen Echo Park Simulcast: Philadelphia Orchestra Charles Dutoit, Conductor Music of Strauss and Mozart | free
Final simulcast of the seasonSat., June 12, 8 pm@ Westmoreland CircleJos� Ramos-Santana, piano music of Spain and Latin America No Tickets | Pay-as-you-can
More information below Mon., June 14, 7 pm@ Westmoreland CircleCello Master Class: Alisa Weilerstein in cooperation with WPAS No Tickets
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Jos� Ramos-Santana, piano
Saturday, June 12, 8 pm Washington Conservatory of Music One Westmoreland Circle Bethesda, MD 20816Pianist 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's
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 Mannes College in
New York
City and the Amalfi
Coast Music and Arts Festival in Italy.
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