May 8th, 2012
Organist Vlada Moran
Join KUSP OnSite host Joe Truskot and Santa Cruz Baroque Festival Artistic Director Linda Burman-Hall for an evening of Baroque favorites as transcribed, adapted, and arranged by Gounod, Brahms, and others. Organist Vlada Moran is the featured soloist. More information on her at
http://www.vladapiano.com/.
Ariose Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Michael McGushin will also join the SC Baroque Festival program. That’s this Friday, May 11 at 8 p.m.
May 2nd, 2012
Eroica Trio Performs at Carmel's Sunset Center
Chamber Music Monterey Bay presented the Eroica Trio in March 2012, join KUSP OnSite host Joe Truskot for the broadcast of this performance at Carmel’s historic Sunset Theater. It will be an evening of exquisite chamber music from Edouard Lalo, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Kevin Puts. The Eroica Trio has earned praise from critics around the globe. That’s KUSP OnSite, every Friday at 8 p.m.
April 23rd, 2012
- Pianist Jon Nakamatsu
John Larry Granger conducts Brahms monumental Fourth Symphony, Berwald’s Estrella de Soria Overture, and Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with Van Cliburn Prize Winner (and Bay Area resident) Jon Nakamatsu.
Join me, Joe Truskot, for an evening of great music and fun. That’s KUSP OnSite every Friday beginning at Eight.
April 19th, 2012
Polish Composer Henryk Gorecki
Join host Joe Truskot for the Santa Cruz Chamber Players performance of music by Hillary Tann, Sofia Gubaidulina, Henryk Gorecki and others. That’s KUSP OnSite, every Friday at Eight on Central Coast Public Radio.
Russian Composer Sofia Gubaidulina
March 25th, 2012
Caterina Lichtenberg & Mike Marshall headline a problem devoted to the evolution of the mandolin.
Concert Took Place on Saturday, March 10, at 7:30pm
UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
SC Baroque Festival’s Concert II, Evolving Mandolins, brings two of the world’s greatest mandolinists to Santa Cruz. Caterina Lichtenberg and Mike Marshall will showcase the evolution of the mandolin through musical time starting with its 16th-century roots in Europe and extending to folk music traditions of the Americas.
A performer as adaptable and charismatic as her instrument, Caterina Lichtenberg has appeared worldwide as performing and workshop artist, showcasing the instrument’s folk and classical music capabilities alike, as soloist and in various ensembles. Originally from Bulgaria, she now holds the only professorship of mandolin in Europe at the Cologne University of Music in Germany.
Well-known to the Santa Cruz mandolin community, Mike Marshall is one of the world’s most accomplished and versatile string instrumentalists in America today. A master on mandolin, guitar, mandocello and violin, he has created some of the most adventurous instrumental music for over 35 years. His concert tours that have taken him around the globe.
The Baroque Festival enthusiastically welcomes back Caterina Lichtenberg, together with Mike Marshall in a collaboration of two virtuosos that promises a dynamic and colorful journey through the world of mandolin.
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March 17th, 2012
COMPOSER PAUL HINDEMITH
Join KUSP OnSite host Joe Truskot for the broadcast of the Santa Cruz Chamber Players concert of February 4. The musicians say it’s one of their best performances and you won’t want to miss it. OnSite begins promptly at 8:00 p.m.
Music by Hindemith, Etler, Reinecke, and Gordon Jacob
- Peter Lemberg, artistic director and oboe
- Lars Johannesson, flute and piccolo
- Jeff Gallagher, clarinet
- Jane Orzel, bassoon
- John Orzel, horn
- Ivan Rosenblum, piano
In this concert the melodic sophistication and variety of the wind quintet combines with the rich sonorities of the piano, creating an array of organic “building blocks” of sound. You will hear compositions from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries featuring delightful and diverse combinations of these melodic instruments.
Paul Hindemith’s masterpiece for wind quintet, Kleine Kammermusik opens the program. The ensemble then performs in smaller combinations (the “building blocks”) both with and without piano. The beautifully matched oboe and clarinet will play composer and oboist Alvin Etler’s Duo. Then, Carl Reinecke’s Trio for Oboe, Horn and Piano (a rare combination of instruments deserving to be heard more often) adds a late-romantic flourish. Finally, the smaller “building blocks” are assembled for the concert finale, Gordon Jacob’s magnum opus, the elegiac and witty Sextet.
March 10th, 2012
- California Koto Ensemble
KUSP OnSite presents the opening concert of the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival’s 2012 Season. Last season, the SC Baroque Festival explored endangered Baroque-period instruments. This season the folks at the Festival present concerts which focus on the evolution of Baroque music and instruments.
This concert presents music by Bach, Vivaldi and others performed on koto (Chinese zither), marimba, and guitar ensembles. It’s baroque music with a new ring! Don’t miss one enjoyable notes.
- SC Baroque Artistic Director Linda Burman-Hall
That’s KUSP OnSite, hosted by Joe Truskot and bringing you the finest broadcasts of Monterey Bay area professional ensembles and organizations, every Friday evening at 8 pm on Central Coast Public Radio KUSP Santa Cruz.
March 5th, 2012
Join us for Chamber Music Monterey Bay’s presentation of the Calefax Reed Quintet with music by Shostakovich, Bach, Debussy and others. Dana Werdmuller, executive director of CMMB, will join me in the studio to talk about the Arc of Life project and upcoming concerts. The fun starts at 8:00 p.m. on Friday.
Calefax, established 25 years ago, are now in great demand worldwide, not least because of their unique instrumentation. The quintet performs standing up and always introduces itself and the program to the audience. Most importantly, the five musicians arrange, recompose and interpret music from eight centuries to suit their unique constellation: from early music to classical and jazz to world premières; in the hands of Calefax it all sounds fresh and new.
The Amsterdam based ensemble has won a number of prestigious prizes and can be heard frequently throughout Europe and further afield in Russia, China, India, Turkey, Japan and the USA.
The Times: “Calefax – five extremely gifted Dutch gents who almost made the reed quintet seem the best musical format on the planet”.
