Announcement

Winners of the 2018 High School Competition

The 2018 Winners of the High School Competition pictured here with Mary Parse (far left), High School Awards Chair and Janie Keys (far right), WMMC President. The four winners are (left to right) Kevin Yu, pianist; Eliot Kim, violinist; Lillian Sun, Violinist; and Claire Kim, pianist.

Meet the talented  winners of the 2018  Wilcox, Maurer, Putter and Rudd Awards for High School Students

 

Claire Kim,  Maurer Award winner, graduated this year from Cedar Park High School and  plans to major in piano performance at UT Austin in the fall.  She performed  the Spanish Rhapsody by Franz Liszt.  Her teacher is Shearon Horton.

 

Lillian Sun, the recipient of the the Putter Award for second place in the Maurer Contest,  studies violin with Molly Emerman.    Lillian  graduated this year from Westlake High School and will attend Stanford in the fall.  She  performed the first movement of the Wieniawski Second Violin Concerto, with pianist,  Alex Maynegre.

 

Eliot Kim,  a ninth-grader, is the first place winner of the Wilcox Award.   He attends Westwood High School, and studies with William Dick. He played  the second movement of the Second Violin Concerto by Henryk Wieniawski, with pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa.

 

Kevin Yu, also a  ninth grader, is the second place winner of the   Wilcox Award.  He is a student at  Westlake High School and studies piano with Susan Groves. He played Frédéric Chopin’s Ballade No. 2 in F Major.

 

 

Meetings

Coming Up on May 1

A Concert Honoring National Music Week

Music…The Universal Language10 AM

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Music by:

Frederic Chopin, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Johannes Brahms, Cole Porter, Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon, and George Gershwin

Performed by:

Rachel May, violinist, Terri Freeland, cellist, and Robert Centeno, pianist

Phyllis Noonan, pianist

Kay Race, pianist

Lisa Shirah-Hiers, pianist

Jerry Conn, tenor, and Walter Tibbitts, guest pianist

Meetings

Coming Up on April 18

A Concert Dedicated to Opera10 AM

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Music from the operas 

The Bohemian Girl by Michael Balfe,  L’Enfant Prodigue   by Claude Debussy,  and Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss  

Performed by:

Elise Ragland, soprano, and Brian Grothues, pianist

Katharine Shields, soprano, and Brian Grothues, pianist

Brian Grothues and Margarito Morales,  pianists

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Coming Up on April 4

 POPS  Concert10 AM

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 Music by 

RIchard Rodgers, Harvey Schmidt, Ray Henderson, Jimmy Webb, Ralph Rainger, Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, Paul Fleischman, Agustin Lara, Cole Porter, Ernesto de Curtis

 

Performed by 

The Silver Strings Orchestra directed by Catherine van Zanten

Suzy Gallagher, soprano, Kit Thompson, tenor, and Greta Gutman, pianist

Marcia Edwards and Sarah Harriman, vocalists

Charles Palmer, baritone, and Kathryn Govier,  pianist

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Coming Up on March 21, 2018

A  M u s i c a l  M e l a n g e

10 AM

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Music by

Walter Gieseking (1895-1956),   Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750),   John Bartlett (fl.1606-1610),   George Frideric Handel (1685-1759),   Jacques Ibert (1890-1962),   Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941),  Gabriel Faure (1845-1924, April Verch (b. 1978)

 Performed by

Sheryl Goodnight, flutist and Stephen Burnaman,  guest pianist 

Janie Keys, pianist

 Carla Johnson, soprano and Katie Kerwin, guitarist

 Pat Yingst, flutist, Andy Ross, guest oboist and Maxine Gomes, pianist 

Katherine Shields, soprano  and Mary Parse, pianist 

Ruby Jane Smith (guest)  and Gregory Shields, fiddlers

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Coming Up on February 21, 2018

A Concert Dedicated to Strings

10 AM   

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MUSIC BY: 

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Antonio Vivaldi (1578-1741), and Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)      

PERFORMED BY:  

Marianne Weiss Kim, soprano,  Pat Yingst, flutist,  Angela Smith, cellist, and Wanda Reynolds,  guest pianist

Mary Parse, pianist

Leah Nelson, guest violist, and Toby Blumenthal-Phillips, pianist

Ruby Jane Smith, mandolinist,  Greg Shields, violinist, and Brian Grothues, pianist

Terri Freeland, cellist, and Robert Centeno, pianist

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

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Coming Up on February 7, 2018

A Concert Dedicated to  Sacred Music

10:00 AM

Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church

7127 Bee Cave Road

 

Featuring Music by:  Alexandre Guilmant, Ludwig van Beethoven, J.S.Bach, Eugene Reuchsel

Performed by:  Gena Tabery, organist;   Barbara George, cellist and Felicity Coltman, pianist;  Ruby Jane Smith and Gregory Shields, violinists, and Brian Grothues, pianist;   Paul Keith, guest organist

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Coming Up on January 24, 2018



A Concert Dedicated to American Women Composers


This event, originally scheduled for January 17, was rescheduled  because of icy weather 


10:00 AM


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Our Program


Angela Smith, author – Clips from a documentary based on her book: Chicks with Sticks 


Carlie Burdett, composer  – Three Short Songs performed by Carla Johnson, soprano and Carlie Burdett, pianist  and Poems by Robert Frost performed by Russell Gregory, bass-baritone and Carolyn McColloch, pianist


Kathryn Mishell, composer – Five Preludes performed by Nan Hampton, pianist


Marta Keen, composer – Homeward Bound performed by Elise Ragland, soprano and Brian Grothues, pianist


Melanie Richards, composer – Song Cycle: Three Songs of Spirit on Poems of Anne Morrow Lindbergh performed by Kellie Bledsoe, guest soprano and Melanie Richards, pianist


Gwyneth Walker, composer – Salem Reel performed by Martha MacDonald, clarinetist, Terri Freeland, cellist, and Felicity Coltman, pianist



	

	
	

	
	
		

	

	





		
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