DATE: April 26 2009, 3 PM
ARTISTS: Jacqui Carrasco, violin; Louis Goldstein, piano; John Beck, percussion
DATE: April 26 2009, 3 PM
SITE: NC Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh
PROGRAM
INFORMATION & TICKET SALES
- NCMA Box Office (919) 715-5923
- Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (919) 821-2030
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Violinist Jacqui Carrasco has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Mexico and Russia, including solo appearances at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and at the Library of Congress and chamber music concerts with the Cassatt String Quartet. Since moving to North Carolina in 1999, Ms. Carrasco has been featured in solo and chamber music performances at Duke University; the UNC campuses in Chapel Hill, Greensboro, and Wilmington; Music at Blowing Rock; the Foothills Chamber Music Festival; Chamber Music at St. Peter's in Charlotte, and with the Salisbury Symphony. She joined the Carolina Piano Trio in 2005.
From 1992-2002, Ms. Carrasco was the violinist of the acclaimed contemporary music ensemble Cygnus and also appeared regularly with New York-based new music groups such as the S.E.M. Ensemble, Anthony Braxton's Tri-Centric Ensemble, Newband and Musicians Accord. Ms. Carrasco has toured extensively with the Mark Morris Dance Group and been a frequent guest at the June in Buffalo Festival at SUNY Buffalo. She has recorded contemporary chamber music for the Nonesuch, Koch, Mode, CRI and Braxton House record labels.
As a noted performer of Argentine tango music, Ms. Carrasco has appeared with cellist Yo-Yo Ma in concert and on television, as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and with the New York Buenos Aires Connection at Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing. She has also been active as a jazz violinist, and her versatile skills have been featured in commercial, film and theater music, as well as on her CD Since We Met with the Jazz Strings Project. Ms. Carrasco received her B.A., magna cum laude, from UCLA, and her M.M. and D.M.A. from SUNY at Stony Brook, where she studied with Joyce Robbins. Having previously taught at Princeton University, she is now an Associate Professor of Music at Wake Forest University.
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1947, Louis Goldstein's early piano study was with a wonderful private teacher named Margaret Schmidt. Further studies occurred at Interlochen Arts Academy, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (BM), California Institute of the Arts (MFA), and Eastman School of Music (DMA and Performer's Certificate), including piano study with Joseph Hungate, Rudolf Ganz, Leonid Hambro, and David Burge.
Long fascinated with music of his own time, Dr. Goldstein was co-founder and co-director of the California New Music Ensemble and an associate member of the Los Angeles Group for Contemporary Music and Newband, in New York City. In ensembles and as a soloist, he has championed cutting edge work of current composers. His faculty recitals at Wake Forest present an absorbing blend of past masters such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Debussy, 20th-century giants such as Copland and Stockhausen, and the latest innovations of today. His CD recordings of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, Dream, and One5, and Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories have garnered accolades from print and internet sources as well as fellow musicians.
Another special interest of Dr. Goldstein's is American music. For 15 years he was on the faculty of the American Foundations Program at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art. He is also an active member of the Society for American Music.
Over the years, Dr. Goldstein has been active as a recitalist, accompanist, and ensemble member, and has appeared as a soloist in such venues as New England Conservatory, Yale, Carnegie Recital Hall, the Universities of Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina, and Florida State, as well as in Canada, The Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and Israel. At Wake Forest he teaches Piano, Piano Literature, First Year Seminars, and Introduction to Western Music, and is also Director of the Christopher Giles and Lucille S. Harris Competitions in Musical Performance and the Student Showcase Recital.
John R. Beck has performed with a wide variety of ensembles in a diversity of musical styles. He is a member of the faculty at the North Carolina School of the Arts, and a percussionist with the Winston-Salem and Greensboro Symphony Orchestras, Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the Philidor Percussion Group. A former member of the United States Marine Band, he performed regularly with the National and Baltimore Symphonies, Washington and Baltimore Operas, and the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center. Beck has toured the United States as a xylophone soloist with the Marine Band, Jack Daniel's Silver Cornet Band, and the New Sousa Band.
As a teacher, he has served on the faculties of the Universities of Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and Florida State, and holds degrees from Oberlin College and the Eastman School of Music. Beck is an active member of the Percussive Arts Society having appeared as a clinician at several PASIC's and serving on the Board of Directors. He presents clinics representing Innovative Mallets, Yamaha Percussion and Zildjian Cymbals, and his compositions, arrangements, and instructional video are published by HoneyRock. His CD "Shared Spaces" is distributed by Equilibrium.