OK Mozart International Music Festival

OK Mozart International Music Festival

<p> OK Mozart International Music Festival</p><p>Presents</p><p>Satellite Showcase Chamber Music Oklahoma All Stars Harwelden Mansion, Tulsa, OK Monday, June 9, 2014 7:00 PM</p><p>David LeDoux, Violoncello Robert Conway, Piano</p><p>Twelve Variations on “Ein Madchen oder Weibchen” Ludwig van Beethoven From Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, Op. 66 (1770-1827)</p><p>Vier Phantasiestucke for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 17 Richard Stohr Andante espressivo (1874-1967) Andantino grazioso Andante con moto Prestissimo</p><p>Intermission</p><p>Sonata in F Major, Op. 99 Johannes Brahms Allegro vivace (1833-1897) Adagio affettuoso Allegro passionato Allegro molto</p><p>David LeDoux, a graduate of Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, came to the Detroit Symphony from the Syracuse Symphony, where he served as Principal Cellist from 2006-2012. LeDoux has appeared as a soloist with the Syracuse Symphony, the Skaneatelas Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Tulsa Philharmonic, the Oklahoma State University Symphony, the Louisiana Sinfonietta and the Mid-Texas Symphony. LeDoux is an active and avid chamber musician, including many years with the Syracuse Society for New Music. As a committed private teacher, he spent last year as a cello instructor for Imagine Syracuse, a music program in an inner-city school which was modeled after the El Sistema program in Venezuela. Previous professional engagements for David have included serving as Principal cellist with the Baton Rouge (LA) Symphony, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Symphony and the Louisiana Sinfonietta. This summer David will be returning to his faculty position with the Eastern Musical Festival. David and his wife currently reside in Madison Heights, and David includes among his hobbies reading, running and movies.</p><p>Robert Conway, a graduate of Edison High School in Tulsa, is an associate professor of piano at Wayne State University, where he is also the director of the piano area. Since 1989, he has performed regularly as orchestral keyboardist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and has been a soloist with them on several occasions. In 2013, he performed the solo piano part to Symphony No. 4 by Charles Ives in Carnegie Hall as part of the Detroit Symphony’s presentation of the complete symphonies of Ives. He has served as a musical representative of the United States as an Artistic Ambassador of the United States Information Agency on a month-long tour of South Asia and the Middle East in 1997, as well as acting as a Department of State Cultural Envoy to Jamaica in 2005 and Azerbaijan in 2008. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared at numerous national and international festivals, performed concertos with many orchestras, collaborated with prestigious composers, given countless premieres and is featured on several recordings on numerous labels. Conway received a bachelor's degree in piano performance from the New England Conservatory and master's and doctoral degrees in piano performance from the University of Michigan. His principal teachers were Theodore Lettvin, Rudolf Kolisch and Eugene Bossart.</p>

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