Greetings!
Please join us for 2 music-filled days! On Friday, you may hear talented students perform in a master class for pianist Yukiko Sekino at our Glen Echo Park site, and stroll to the Park's Bumper Car Pavilion to hear our WCM Jazz Quartet in a benefit to support the Children's Inn at NIH.
On Saturday, Ms. Sekino, winner of the 2011 Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition will perform our final concert of the 2012-13 season, including favorites of the piano repertoire and an exciting world premiere.
Musically yours,
Kathy Judd
Executive & Artistic Director
P.S. Did you hear about our new summer 5-day piano intensive?
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 Yukiko Sekino, piano 2011 Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition Winner
In cooperation with the DC Alumni Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon
Saturday, June 8, 2013
8 pm
Westmoreland Congregational
UCC Church
1 Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, MD
Free (donations welcome)
Program
Sonata in f minor, Op. 2, No.1....Beethoven
Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 ("Black Mass")....Scriabin
Etude No. 29: Roll Your Own....Rakowski
Prelude No. 16: Mind the Gap (world premiere)....Rakowski
Etude No. 30: A Gliss is Just a Gliss....Rakowski
Intermission
Pictures at an Exhibition....Mussorgsky
Friday, June 7 at 7 pm
Piano Master Class with Yukiko Sekino
Free and open to the public
Washington Conservatory at Glen Echo Park
7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, MD
Directions
Ms. Sekino has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in the United States, Europe, and Japan. She made her debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at age sixteen, and has since appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the New World Symphony, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, Merrimack Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, Nova Vista Symphony, and Lakeside Symphony.
Gold Medalist of the 2006 International Russian Music Piano Competition, Ms. Sekino also received the Public Prize through audience vote for her final round performance of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto. In 2010, she was a winner of the S&R Washington Award, which recognizes exceptional artists in the fields of music, fine arts, photography, film, and dance. As the winner of the 2011 Mu Phi Epsilon International Music Competition, she is currently giving recitals, concerto performances, and masterclasses throughout the United States. Other honors include the Jackson Prize at Tanglewood Music Center, JAA Music Award, and an Emerging Artist Award from St. Botolph Club Foundation.
Recent recital engagements include Dame Myra Hess Concerts in Chicago, Tri-County Concerts Association in Pennsylvania, Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City, Harvard Club of New York City, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Colby College, UMass Lowell, Slippery Rock University, and Ithaca College. Her performances have been broadcast on WFMT (Chicago) and WQXR (New York) radio stations.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Sekino has been invited to Tanglewood, Kneisel Hall, Music Academy of the West, and Thy (Denmark) festivals. Between 2005-2008, she served as a pianist of New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. Having a significant interest in new music, she has premiered numerous chamber works in New York, Boston, Miami, and at Tanglewood.
Ms. Sekino is a graduate of Harvard University and the Juilliard School, and holds a doctoral degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her teachers include Gilbert Kalish, Seymour Lipkin, Robert Levin, and Eda Shlyam. She is currently an Affiliate Artist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and teaches piano at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School.
More info: 301-320-2770 or online
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| The Washington Conservatory encourages you to hear the WCM faculty jazz ensemble while supporting a worthy cause, the Children's Inn at NIH. This special event was conceived and created by our colleague at Glen Echo Park, artist J. Jordan Bruns.
An Evening with the Arts
A benefit for the Children's Inn at NIH
Friday, June 7 │ 6:30 - 9 pm
Glen Echo Park │ Bumper Car Pavilion
7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo, MD
Latin Jazz by Washington Conservatory Faculty
Marty Nau, saxophone; Wayne Wilentz, piano;
Steve Novosel, bass; David McDonald, drums
with Latin dancers, too
Visual Artists
J. Jordan Bruns, Walter Bartman, Barbara Gruber,
Glen Kessler, Christine Lashley, Lida Stifel
Watch as the artists paint in front of our eyes, inspired by the music and the musicians. Enjoy wine and light fare.
Silent auction for the evening's art at 9 pm.
Tickets: $40, available online or at the door for $50
All proceeds donated to the Children's Inn at NIH
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The Washington Conservatory is a nationally accredited community music school serving the greater Bethesda, MD and Washington, DC area since 1984.
NOW ENROLLING
Serving students of all ages - kids, teens, and adults - beginners to advanced. No audition.
301-320-2770
Two locations:
Westmoreland Circle,
Bethesda &
Glen Echo Park
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