Bowman-Jewett Award Concert Features Piano and Flute Artistry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 26, 2001
Robert Bowman, Department of Music
530-898-4043
Kathleen McPartland
530-898-4260
Bowman-Jewett Award Concert Features Piano and Flute Artistry
The 14th Annual Fall Jane Bowman-Jewett Award Benefit Concert will be held on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 P.M. in Ruth Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, California State University, Chico. The concert, The 2 R’s and 2 B’s, features Ravel’s Sonatine for piano, Reinecke’s “Ondine” Sonata for flute and piano, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in E Major, op. 109 and Brahms’ Variations on a Theme of Haydn for two pianos. Featured performers include Robert Bowman and John Milbauer, pianists, and Heidi Pintner, flutist.
Admission is free, and all proceeds from donations and a bake sale will support deserving keyboard students. Local merchants Cory’s Treats and Sweets, Starbuck’s Coffee and Brooklyn Bridge Bagel Company and members of the community will donate refreshments.
This concert marks the second appearance by Milbauer in concert at CSU, Chico since his recent appointment as director of the Accompanying Program. He has performed throughout North America and Europe, and has been broadcast on New York radio station WQXR, National Public Radio, and French national television. After initial study in the liberal arts at Harvard College, he earned his B.M. from the Eastman School of Music, an M.M. from Juilliard School and a D.M.A. from Manhattan School of Music. A Fulbright grant enabled further study at the Liszt Academy in Hungary, 1994Ð96.
Milbauer has been a staff accompanist at Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music. In Banff, he performed with cellist Antonio Lysy and flutist Carol Wincenc. In New York, he was a studio pianist for the late Beverley Johnson (teacher of soprano Renee Fleming), accompanied Metropolitan Opera Young Artists, and was a piano soloist during a Columbia Artists tour with the New York Theatre Ballet. A regular participant in Juilliard’s FOCUS! Festival for contemporary music, he also collaborated in joint music/dance productions for the Juilliard “Composers and Choreographers” series.
A keyboard solo and collaborative artist, Bowman has performed extensively on the West and East Coasts of the United States in solo and chamber ensemble recitals, in numerous appearances with orchestra, and on radio-TV since 1960. He has also performed solo piano recitals in Frankfurt, Baden-Baden, Munich, Geneva and Prague, and organ-harpsichord recitals in Austria.
Bowman, who received an M.A. in orchestral conducting from Stanford University, has served as a guest conductor for the Paradise Symphony, Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and free-lance chamber orchestras. During the summer of 2001, he presented a duo-recital at the Antonin Dvorak Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, and an introductory workshop on the Dorothy Taubman Approach in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Pintner has performed extensively in Florida, Ohio, Washington, Texas and Northern California as soloist, orchestral flutist and chamber music artist. She received her B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, M.M. from Florida State University and D.M. from Florida State University.
Currently principal flutist in the North State Symphony Orchestra, Pintner performs with the Chico Early Music Ensemble. In addition, she has performed in many ensembles such as the Chico Symphony Orchestra, the Redding Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic and the CSU, Chico Wind Ensemble. She has served as associate director of the Chamber Music Workshop and will assume the duties as director during summer 2003.
For more information about the concert, contact Robert Bowman at 530-898-4043.
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