Lent Season 2010 Lunchtime Recital Series
Rio Rancho Presbyterian Church presents a lunchtime recital series during the 2010 season of Lent. Beginning February 18 and every Thursday through April 1, the church will feature some of the finest musicians in the Albuquerque/Rio Rancho area in a 30 minute recital followed by a complimentary lunch. The program begins at noon and is free to the public. See below for the schedule and the performers' biographies.
Date
Performer
February 18
Rio Rancho String Quartet
February 25
March 4
Paul Bower, baritone, with Susan Landers, piano
March 11
Jerome Jim, flute, with Amy Greer, piano
March 18
Jim Gross, guitar
March 25
Jacque Zander-Wall, mezzo-soprano, with Martha Hanson, piano
April 1
Amy Greer, piano
Paul Bower, Baritone
Paul has been Director of Music Ministry at Rio Rancho Presbyterian Church since 2003. Along with coordinating our music ministry, Paul also directs our Chancel Choir and the JuBELLation Bell Choir. In addition to his work with us, Paul also works as a freelance musician in Albuquerque. Prior to his appointment at RRPC, Paul held similar positions at Harwood United Methodist Church in Albuquerque and Madison Avenue Christian Church in Covington, Kentucky. As a professional singer, Paul has been heard with Opera Southwest, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, and various opera companies in over twenty roles around the United States. Paul also teaches music at Central New Mexico Community College and has a voice studio with twenty private students. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Paul has degrees in music from the University of New Mexico and Northern Kentucky University. Paul and his wife Ling have a young daughter Audrey who the RRPC family would adopt if her parents would allow us!
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Amy Greer, Piano
Amy Greer is a pianist, teacher and writer living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recognized for her creative approach to traditional piano teaching, she holds a bachelors degree in piano performance from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a masters degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She has published numerous articles in various music publications, and her column Marking Time: Notes from a Musician's Journal appears in American Music Teacher.
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Jim Gross, Guitar
Jim has produced over 3000 musical events in New Mexico between 1991 and 2008. He has a Bachelor's degree in Business Management from University of Redlands and is the founder and owner of Carousel of Music. Live performances include the Carpenters, Rose Bowl, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and artist tours throughout U.S. He has also performed on several albums. Guitar styles range from classical & flamenco to jazz standards.
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Martha Hanson, Piano
A native of Minneapolis, Martha Dalager Hanson started her piano studies with Thelma Johnson. She attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, where she received her Bachelors degree in Piano Performance and spent a year at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, Austria, as part of her studies. Ms. Hanson holds a Masters in Piano Performance with concentration in Accompanying from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, where she studied with Lois McLeod. She taught on the faculty at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff before settling in Albuquerque. Ms. Hanson does a variety of accompanying at the University of New Mexico, performed in the Music with the Maestro concerts with members of the New Mexico Symphony, pro Musica in Santa Fe, Santa Fe Opera Mosaics, Bosque Chamber Music Society, Chamber Magic at the Kimo Theater, and on the Roswell Chamber Series. She also has accompanied for summer workshops, including Opera Unlimited's Singing with Bill & Dixie Neill, the Richard Miller Workshop in Flagstaff and the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan.
Jerome Jim, Flute
Born on the Navajo Reservation, Jerome Jim is an active and versatile musician with styles ranging from traditional Native American flute, to the classical flute repertoire. As a classical and Native American flute soloist, he has appeared with the Grand Canyon Music Festival in the world premiere of Guardians of the Grand Canyon by composer Brent Michael Davids This performance was broadcast on American public television (PBS) in the spring of 2002. He as also appeared at numerous University of New Mexico public events as a Native American Flutist.
Now primarily a recitalist, Jerome has worked collaboratively with pianist Amy Greer on numerous projects, including several recordings of rare and unknown works for flute and piano.
Jerome also performed with Musical Theater Southwest (formerly The Albuquerque Civic Light Opera Association) from 1995 to 2003. In the summer of 2000, he traveled to Rome, Italy to play flute in The International Opera Academy of Rome.
He received his undergraduate degree from The University of New Mexico in European Musical Performance in Cultural Context, a degree which encompasses musical performance, History, Art History, Literature, and languages. Then in 2003, he attended the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Holland to further his performance art and pursue research on the Early Romantic operatic soprano Giuditta Pasta.
His primary teachers include Valerie Potter and the late Frank Bowen.
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New Mexican Marimba Band
The NEW MEXICAN MARIMBA BAND is an all-occasion, low-volume ensemble, exciting and unique. The Band performs on an authentic Mexican buzzzzzz Marimba from Chiapas made by Alfredo Mancilla featuring their family diamond inlay pattern on the frame. The Band has performed for local, state, national, and international conventions including for dignitaries from around the world. The band performs many favorites and also original works by Steve Chavez in every style.
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Jacqueline Zander-Wall, Mezzo-Soprano
Over fifty recital credits include the Stuttgart Hugo Wolf Gesellschaft, the Hamburg Mahler Verein, the Villa Lobos Ensemble, the Goethe Institute in Moscow and Boston, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She has performed Chamber Music with the New York Skaneateles Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Warebrook Contemporty Music Festival in Vermont and throughout Germany. A proponent of new music Ms. Zander-Wall has sung with L?art pour l?art in Frankfurt, Chaosmas in Moscow and Boston and Hamburgs improvisatory Scala Theater.
As an oratorio soloist, she has performed with Robert Shaw, Canticum Novum, the Flensburger Back Chor, and Cathedrals in Hamburg, Wismar, and Lubeck. She has sung the role of Proserpina with Monteverdi Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Chicago Opera Theater. Other opera credits include the Boston Lyric Opera, Arizona Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Opera Southwest, and the Hamburg Opera. Recently performing the title role in Carmen with the Duluth/Superior Symphony, she has also been a soloist with the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the New Haven Symphony, Konzertante Oper Hamburg, the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
She is on the Voice Faculty at the University of New Mexico and the Founder and Director of the Vocal Artistry Art Song Competition. She has been a fellow at the Music Academy of the West, the Britten Pears School, the Vienna Meisterkurs, the Ost-West Musik Akademie, and the Hochschule fur Musik in Hamburg and Berlin. Her primary teacher in Elizabeth Mannion. She has also worked extensively with Phyllis Curtin, Dietrich Fiescher-Dieskau, Suzanne Danco, and Jane Snow.
