Susan Lamb Cook Susan Lamb Cook

May 30, 2012 Concert # 474 ~ Since Nov. 13, 2002 “Where friendship & music intersect” …a lways free! Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m. th 1856 2012 13 & N Streets, Sacramento, CA 95814 156 years of service Fine musical talent - serving the local community - supported by the local community “Rest here, weary mind, feel the soft harmonies for my hidden anguish. Heal me, I implore Thee.” (Bach Cantata 210) Susan Lamb Cook Cello Natsuki Fukasawa Piano Hear selected past concert music; see upcoming concert info/photos: www.musicatnoon.org Please share information about these admission-free concerts with your community. Jun 06 A jazz tribute to Doris Day; vocalist Laura Didier and the Jim Martinez Trio Jun 13 Bay Area Pianist John David Thomsen: Bach, Beethoven, and more Jun 20 Mezzo Soprano Donna Olson and Friends: Classic Opera and Broadway Jun 27 Organist Katya Kolesnikova July 04 CHURCH CLOSED July 11 Sacramento Youth Symphony Chamber Music Workshop; Susan Lamb Cook, Director July 18 Sacramento Youth Symphony Chamber Music Workshop; Susan Lamb Cook, Director July 25 Matthew Grasso, 7-string guitar Aug 01 Sacramento Youth Jazz Band; Stephen J. Bingen, Jr., Director Aug 08 Pianist Peter Hill and Friends Aug 15 Francesca Homan, jazz singer; Steve Homan, jazz guitarist; “Jazz ‘n Samba Duo” Aug 22 Duo Harpists Beverly Wesner-Hoehn and Carol Kihm perform great duo repertoire Aug 29 Oboist Curtis Kidwell and Friends Westminster Presbyterian Church funds the administrative costs of M.A.N. 100% of your contributions supports M.A.N. (with more than 90% going to our artists). Tax-deductible SPONSORSHIPS start at $35. Please make checks payable to Westminster Presbyterian Church (memo “MAN”). For audition information or program suggestions, please contact Program Director Brad Slocum: 916.442.8939 x315. Westminster Presbyterian Church is a welcoming, inclusive, and diverse community. PROGRAM Susan Lamb Cook, cello Natsuki Fukasawa, piano Arioso from Cantata No. 156 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) “Ich wandte mich und sahe an”, op. 121, no.2 Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) (I journeyed on my way) Vocalise, op. 34, no. 14 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943) Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano, op. 66 Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 – 1959) Andante cantabile Sonata for Piano and Cello in F Major, op. 99 Johannes Brahms Allegro vivace Adagio affettuoso Allegro passionate Allegro molto Currently Artist Affiliate in cello and chamber music at the University of California, Davis, Susan Lamb Cook is an active performer and educator both nationally and internationally, and her performances and recordings have won critical acclaim. Her solo work has been featured on public radio station broadcasts, and she performs regularly with the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra. She is on the artistic staff for the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, and the Vianden International Music Festival and School in Luxembourg. Professor Lamb Cook has served as artist in residence at Xiamen University, China and her recent master class at the Jinan Youth Palace was broadcast throughout Shandong Province. As a member of the Gold Coast Trio, she has performed and given master classes at San Francisco State University, Scripps College and Harvey Mudd College. The trio’s 2006 performance at the Liszt Concert Hall in Raiding, Austria was featured on Austrian National Television. Susan Lamb Cook is an active member of the California Association of Professional Music Teachers and the American String Teachers Association, and is co-author of Guide to Teaching Strings by Norman Lamb. She is director of the Sacramento Youth Symphony’s Chamber Music Workshop, and her students perform regularly for competitions and public concerts. Her recordings include Works for Cello and Piano by Rachmaninoff , The Gold Coast Trio – Works by Beethoven, Beach, Bernstein and Piazolla, and La Commedia - chamber music by American composer Daniel Kingman for Innova Recordings. Natsuki Fukasawa 's music career has taken her throughout U.S. cities as well as to Europe, Scandinavia, Israel, Australia, Japan and China in the role of soloist and chamber musician. As a founding member of the award-winning Jalina Trio, Natsuki has won many accolades and international prizes, including a rave review in Fanfare magazine and the Best Chamber Music Recording of the Year from the Danish Music Awards. Natsuki’s recent highlights include a tour of Italy performing Gershwin’s Concerto in F as well as performances of Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto with the Sacramento Philharmonic and Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto with the Camellia Symphony (U.S.). During this year, her projects include traveling to Hong Kong (teaching and judging) and a concerto performance with Folsom Symphony, as well as recording a CD in Texas and performing in Brazil and Ukraine. Natsuki is on the artist faculty for the Orfeo Music Festival in the Italian Alps, and Calcap Chamber Music Workshop in Sacramento. She has taught at California State University Sacramento, St. Mary’s College of Moraga, and has been a guest faculty at University of South Florida. She also enjoys nurturing the young talents in her own private studio. Her main teachers include Takako Fukasawa (her mother), Fumiko Ishikawa, Mark Richman, Martin Canin, Jan Panenka, Anne Koscielny, Ferenc Rados and violist Tim Frederiksen. She is a Fulbright Scholar and has earned her degrees from New York’s Juilliard, Prague Academy in Czech Republic and University of Maryland. Natsuki records for Classico and Da Capo labels and her career is noted in the World of Women in Classical Music and Who’s Who in America. .

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