<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Music in May]]></title><description><![CDATA[Articles]]></description><link>http://www.musicinmay.com/</link><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright Music in May]]></copyright><generator>sNews CMS</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Videos]]></title><description><![CDATA[  Music in May 2010. Puccini Crisantemi.&nbsp; Rebecca Jackson, Liang-Ping How, Michael Tree, Ronald Leonard.  
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  Opening Gala Performance 2008  
  Dvorak's Romantic Pieces  
    Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin &amp; Edward Auer, piano    
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  Schubert's Rondo  
    Shmuel Ashkenasi accompanied by Laura Albers, Rebecca Jackson, Michael Klotz and Jason Calloway    
    
  
          
  Dvorak's Piano Quartet in E flat major, movement one  
    Shmuel Ashkenasi, Edward Auer, Jason Calloway, Michael Klotz    
  
  
        
  Kuumbawa Jazz Center 2008  
  Excerpts from Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins  
    Laura Albers, violin I, Rebecca Jackson, violin II    
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  Busking on Pacific Avenue, downtown Santa Cruz 2008  
  
  
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        Liang-Ping How, violin    
        Rebecca Jackson, violin    
        Amy Yang, piano    
        Eric Sung, cello      
        
  
  Guest Artists  
  
        Ronald Leonard, cello    
        Michael Tree, viola    
  
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       LIANG-PING HOW   (violin and viola) began studying violin at the age of four and continued his studies at the Interlochen Arts Academy and with Jaime Laredo at the Curtis Institute of Music. How made his solo debut with the National Youth Orchestra of Taiwan at the age of seven and his Carnegie Hall debut in 1974 with the New York String Orchestra under Alexander Schneider. He has been a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra since 1980, appearing both as member and soloist and often leading the group as concertmaster. He has toured extensively throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia with Orpheus, among other ensembles, and has recorded on numerous occasions with Orpheus for the Deutsche Grammophon label. How is an active soloist and chamber musician.  He performed as soloist with Orpheus playing the Bruch violin concerto and the Morzart G major with the New Mexico Symphony. How's chamber music activities have included performances at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Spoleto, Caramoor Music Festival, the Lockenhaus Festival, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He also appeared with the New York Philomusica at the International Music Festival of Sofia and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. How currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is a member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. He plays an 1863 J.B. Vuillaume.  
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     Hailed as &quot;riveting&quot; by The San Francisco Examiner, founder and artistic director of Music in May, Korean-American REBECCA JACKSON (violin), is a native of California.&nbsp; She has traveled and performed throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, Spain, Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Japan, China, and Taiwan. Ms. Jackson received her B.M. from The Juilliard School and recently received a graduate degree from UC Santa Cruz where she studied with Roy Malan.&nbsp; She is assistant concertmaster of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra and regularly performs with the San Francisco Opera. She has performed with the Mendocino Festival and Cabrillo Festival Orchestras. Founder of A Musical Gift, Rebecca Jackson originated this concert series devoted to raising funds for worthwhile community causes. To date, over $100,000 has been raised.&nbsp; She was part of the broadway musical South Pacific during its 2009 fall time run at the Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco.&nbsp; Ms. Jackson's acting and original composition was featured April 2010 at Exit Theater (San Francisco) in the production, &quot;The Wind and Rain.&quot;&nbsp; In addition Ms. Jackson has completed two marathons, three triathlons, is an avid salsa dancer, and served as Miss Santa Cruz County 2005.&nbsp; www.rjviolin.info  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:09:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.musicinmay.com/musicians/rebecca-jackson/</link><guid>http://www.musicinmay.com/musicians/rebecca-jackson/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amy Yang]]></title><description><![CDATA[        
    Hailed by Harris Goldsmith of   The New York Concert Review   as &quot;  a magnificent artist and poet: everything she touches turns to gold--a Midas touch for tone and music  &quot;, twenty-four-year-old pianist   AMY JIAQI YANG   has captured first prizes at many competitions and has performed in various renowned venues in the United States, Europe and Asia.&nbsp; Most recently, she toured the east coast with Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Institute, made her debut at The OK Mozart Festival, returned for her second season at Marlboro Music Festival, and competed in the Thirteenth Van Cliburn Piano Competition.&nbsp; This season will include Ms. Yang&rsquo;s debut recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall&nbsp; and recitals at Steinway Hall in New York.&nbsp; An experienced performer, Ms. Yang has concertized in major venues including the Kennedy Center, Columbia University, Lincoln Center&rsquo;s Rose Studio, Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, and at The Ravinia Festival, to name a few.&nbsp; From a chamber recital, Peter Dobrin from The Philadelphia Inquirer remarked,   &quot;Yang made sense of complex passages by deftly highlighting one voice among many [and] elevated joy to the edge of rapture while still in control of a totally refined sound.&quot;  &nbsp; Ms. Yang has garnered first prizes at the International Corpus Christi Young Artists' Competition, where she also received the grand prize, the National Chopin Piano Competition of the Kosciuszko Foundation of New York City, and the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition (Corpus Christi). She has been a soloist with the Houston Symphony, Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Corpus Christi Symphony, Richardson Symphony, and Woodlands Symphony. Her performances have been heard on radio broadcasts in Poland, across the U.S., and on National Public Radio.&nbsp; Ms. Yang received degrees from The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. Currently, she is pursuing an Artist Diploma at The Yale School of Music, where she received the Elizabeth Parisot Prize for an Outstanding Piano Student. Her principal teachers are Hua Yang, Qing Li, Timothy Hester, Claude Frank, Robert McDonald, and Peter Frankl. A visual artist, she devotes her time to drawing, painting, and sculpting as well as reading great literature, playing classical guitar, and taking art classes at Yale. Her compositions have been premiered at Juilliard's Double Visions series. www.amyjyang.com  
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    ERIC SUNG   is the Associate Principal Cellist of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.&nbsp; He has studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, University of Southern California, and the Juilliard School.&nbsp; His principal teachers have been Stephen Geber, Ronald Leonard, Fred Sherry, David Geber and Lynn Harrell.&nbsp; An avid chamber musician, Eric has performed at the Taos, Sarasota, Scotia, Banff, Mendocino, Kent/Blossom, Aspen, Tanglewood and San Luis Obispo Mozart Festivals.&nbsp; He has participated in the New York String Seminar, Piatigorsky Seminar and has attended the National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, Pacific Music Festival and Verbier Festival.&nbsp; As a soloist, Eric has appeared with the Colburn Chamber Orchestra, Aspen Academy of Conducting Orchestra and the Saratoga Symphony.&nbsp; He was a member of the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and was the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic.&nbsp; Eric has served as Acting/Guest Principal of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada and has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra.  
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  Guest Artist  
      
  Ronald Leonard has long been acknowledged as one of America&rsquo;s most highly acclaimed cellists, chamber musicians and teacher.  &nbsp;   While a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Leonard Rose and Orlando Cole, Mr. Leonard won the prestigious Walter W. Naumburg award.  &nbsp;&nbsp;   Upon graduation he was invited by George Szell to join the Cleveland Orchestra, a position he held for two years.  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;   He was then appointed principal cellist of the Rochester Philharmonic and also joined the faculty of the Eastman School of Music.  &nbsp;&nbsp;   Before joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal cellist in 1975, he was a member of the Vermeer Quartet.  &nbsp;   During his years as principal cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he was presented as soloist with the orchestra many times,  &nbsp;   performing, to name a few, concertos by Haydn, Dvorak, Elgar, Barber, Shostokovitch, Brahms, Beethoven, Strauss, Tschaikovsky and Prokofiev, with world famous conductors Zubin Mehta, Carl Maria Giulini, Sir Simon Rattle, Michael Tilson Thomas and Esa-Peka Salonen.  &nbsp;     &nbsp;  Chamber Music has also been a major part of his musical career.  &nbsp;&nbsp;   While at Eastman he was a member of the Eastman Quartet,  &nbsp;   spent summers at both Aspen, where he regularly performed with Itzahk Perlman, Pinkus Zuckerman, Claude Frank,  &nbsp;   and Marlboro, where he collaborated with Rudolph Serkin, Alexander   &nbsp;  Schneider, Felix Galimir, Jaimie Laredo, Arnold Steinhardt, Richard Goode, Lilian Kalir,Ruth Laredo, Murray Perahia, Walter Ponce,   &nbsp;  Shmuel Ashkenasi,  &nbsp;   Pina Carmirelli, Isidore Cohen, Sylvia Rosenberg,  &nbsp;   Michael Tree, Sandor Vegh, James Dunham,  &nbsp;   Bruno Giuranna, John Graham, Raphael Hillyer, Jorge Mester, Philip Naegele, Timothy Eddy, Madeline Foley, Yo Yo Ma, Siegfreid Palm, Miklos Perenyi,   &nbsp;&nbsp;  and many others .  &nbsp;&nbsp;   He has been involved in the chamber music programs at many festivals, including Aspen, Marlboro, Musicorda, Music Fest, the Australian Music Festival,   &nbsp;  Reno Chamber Music Festival and the Sarasota Music Festival.  &nbsp;&nbsp;   He has also been guest artist with the Guarnerius, American, Mendelssohn , Boromeo, and Jiulliard Quartets. &nbsp;Mr. Leonard was an active member in the Hollywood studio scene and can be heard on the sound tracks as soloist in such movies as Witches of Eastwick, Sophies Choice and  &nbsp;   Snow Falling on Cedars. &nbsp;Regarded as one of the world&rsquo;s leading pedagogues, Mr. Leonard has held important posts at the Eastman School of Music, the Aspen Music Festival, the Meadowmount School of Music, the Perlman Music Program, Musicorda,  &nbsp;   UCLA, the Heifitz International Music Festival, USC, where he was the Piatigorsky Professor of Cello,  &nbsp;   and now the Colburn School, where he teaches cello and chamber music and is conductor of the Colburn Chamber Orchestra.  &nbsp;   His former students are members of orchestras such as  &nbsp;   Cleveland, Boston, Cincinnatti, Los Angeles,   &nbsp;  Toronto, and  &nbsp;   Buffalo,   &nbsp;  and many others hold positions in chamber music groups and educational institutions.  
  
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  Guest Artist  
      
    MICHAEL TREE  &nbsp;was born in Newark, New Jersey and received his first violin instruction from his father.&nbsp; Later, as a scholarship student at the Curtis institute of Music in Philadelphia, Mr. Tree studied with Efrem Zimbalist, Lea Luboshutz and Veda Reynolds.&nbsp; In 1954, the New York Herald Tribune wrote, &quot;A 20- year-old American violinist, Michael Tree, stepped out upon Carnegie Hall stage last night and made probably the most brilliant young debut in the recent past... the violinist evidenced not one lapse from the highest possible musical and technical standards&quot;.&nbsp; Subsequent to his debut, Mr. Tree has appeared as a violin and viola soloist with the Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Baltimore, New Jersey and other major orchestras.&nbsp; He has also participated in leading festivals, including Marlboro, Casals, Spoleto, Israel, Aspen, Santa Fe and Taos.&nbsp; As a founding member of the Guarneri String Quartet, Mr. Tree has played in major cities throughout the world.&nbsp; In 1982, Mayor Koch presented the Quartet with the New York City Seal of Recognition, an honor awarded for the first time.&nbsp; One of the most widely recorded musicians in America, Mr. Tree has recorded over 80 chamber music works, including piano quartets and quintets with Artur Rubinstein.&nbsp; Other artists with whom he has recorded include Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, Jamie Laredo, Yo- Yo Ma, Sharon Robinson, Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman.&nbsp; Mr. Tree is co-founder of the Schumann Trio, featuring works for clarinet, viola or violin, and piano.&nbsp; His colleagues include Anthony McGill and Anna Polonsky.&nbsp; Mr. Tree is on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Bard College and the University of Maryland at College Park.  ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:03:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.musicinmay.com/musicians/michael-tree/</link><guid>http://www.musicinmay.com/musicians/michael-tree/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friday May 14, 8pm and Saturday May 15, 8pm]]></title><description><![CDATA[    Mim 2010 will feature Michael Tree of the Guarneri Quartet and former principal cellist of the LA Philharmonic, Ronald Leonard.    
    General Admission: $20 with limited Gold Circle Seating at $35 per concert     (plus any applicable service charges).     Door price $5 additional      
    
      Tickets are NOW on sale through the Civic Center Box office  .&nbsp;     (831) 420-5260. www.santacruztickets.com    
      A portion of tickets sales will benefit Aptos Community Foundation, Cultural Council of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Neighbors and the music program at Tierra Pacific Charter School.      
      
May 9, 2008: Shmuel Ashkenasi performing Schubert Rondo with Laura Albers, Rebecca Jackson, Michael Klotz, and Jason Calloway for Mim's inaugural season.&nbsp; Lauren Hardy photography.  ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:25:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.musicinmay.com/home/friday-may-14-8pm-and-saturday-may-15-8pm/</link><guid>http://www.musicinmay.com/home/friday-may-14-8pm-and-saturday-may-15-8pm/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[2010 Season Calendar]]></title><description><![CDATA[  General Admission: $20 with limited gold circle seating at $35 per concert.   Door Price $5 Additional    
  Tickets are NOW on sale through the Civic Center Box Office. (831) 420-5260&nbsp;  
  www.santacruztickets.com&nbsp;  
  We look forward to seeing you and thank you for your support!  ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:03:21 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.musicinmay.com/calendar/2010-season-calendar/</link><guid>http://www.musicinmay.com/calendar/2010-season-calendar/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friday May 14]]></title><description><![CDATA[      First Congregational Church       (900 High St. Santa Cruz CA 95060)    
    8:00pm    
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    Pasquali Sonata     
    Michael Tree, viola &amp; Amy Yang, piano    
    Haydn &quot;Sun&quot; String Quartet Op. 20 No. 4     
    Liang-Ping How, Rebecca Jackson, Michael Tree, Ronald Leonard    
    Schubert Cello Quintet     
    Liang-Ping How, Rebecca Jackson, Michael Tree, Ronald Leonard, Eric Sung    
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    *Steinway Grand courtesy of Sherman Clay Pianos  *  
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    8:00pm    
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    Bach Capriccio on the Departure of his Beloved Brother, BWV 992     
    Amy Yang, piano    
    Tortelier Sonata Breve     
    Ronald Leonard, cello &amp; Amy Yang, piano    
    P    uccini Crisantemi String Quartet    
    Rebecca Jackson, Liang-Ping How, Michael Tree, Ronald Leonard    
    Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, No. 2    
    Amy Yang, Liang-Ping How, Rebecca Jackson, Michael Tree, Ronald Leonard    
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    *Steinway Grand courtesy of Sherman Clay Pianos  *  
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      Two of the world&rsquo;s most famous classical musicians are coming to Santa Cruz.  &nbsp;   That&rsquo;s why I am so excited to write you about the third season of Music in May with its gift of beautiful chamber music, an outreach to youth and collaboration with charities that serve our community.  &nbsp;     
      I am most proud to announce 2 very special guest artists for 2010 - violist Michael Tree from the legendary Guarneri String Quartet and Ronald Leonard, former principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  &nbsp;   Two performances, Friday May 14  th   and Saturday May 15  th   , are scheduled.  &nbsp;&nbsp;    &nbsp;       
    
  For two seasons we will forever be thankful to the Santa Cruz Chamber Players serving as our sponsor organization.&nbsp; Starting this season the Aptos Community Foundation has graciously accepted to take over this role.&nbsp; In addition, we will sell $20 tickets for each show.&nbsp; A portion of ticket sales will go to support several local non-profits that include Aptos Community Foundation, The Cultural Council, Santa Cruz Neighbors and the music programs at Tierra Pacifica and Westlake Elementary.  
  Mim has been and will remain focused on uplifting and bringing our community together.  &nbsp;   We sincerely appreciate your support on so many levels, especially in times of reduced finances for the arts!  &nbsp;   Please consider a tax-deductible donation to help sustain the success of Mim.  &nbsp;   Please make your check out to &ldquo;Aptos Community Foundation,&rdquo; noting on the memo line &ldquo;Music in May.&rdquo;  &nbsp;   The mailing address for your contribution is:       
  Music in May  
  c/o Daniel Le  
  1127 &frac12; Soquel Avenue Suite A  
  Santa Cruz CA 95062  
      Every donation of $150 will receive two 2-day regular tickets for Mim, all donations of $250 will receive two 2-day tickets in a gold circle seating area, and all donations of $500 and more will receive two 2-day gold circle tickets and an invitation for two to a lunch with the musicians.       
  The personal pleasure of attending will be exceeded only by the satisfaction that your participation benefits many others.  &nbsp;   If you have questions or would like to volunteer, please contact me.       
  Warm regards,     
    
  Rebecca Jackson  
  Email: musicinmay@gmail.com  ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:41:43 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.musicinmay.com/support/thank-you-for-your-support/</link><guid>http://www.musicinmay.com/support/thank-you-for-your-support/</guid></item></channel></rss>