Holiday Newsletter 2006
Holiday greetings from the Green Lake Festival of Music!
We want to take this opportunity to thank our entire “Festival family” for all of your support over the past year, and to wish you all the best for the holidays and the year ahead. With your support, we had a fabulous summer concert season, introduced a new, free children’s concert series sponsored by Thomas E. Caestecker, and held a very successful cabaret event at the home of Tom and Lesa Marquardt . Next season promises to “Widen Your Horizons” with more fabulous music. Your continued support is critically important to us, so please consider what we offer to our community and include a gift to the Festival in your year-end giving. We thankfully accept both checks and gifts by charge card sent to our address: PO Box 569 , Green Lake , WI 54941. Of course, all contributions are fully tax deductible. Thank you!
We want to take this opportunity to thank our entire “Festival family” for all of your support over the past year, and to wish you all the best for the holidays and the year ahead. With your support, we had a fabulous summer concert season, introduced a new, free children’s concert series sponsored by Thomas E. Caestecker, and held a very successful cabaret event at the home of Tom and Lesa Marquardt . Next season promises to “Widen Your Horizons” with more fabulous music. Your continued support is critically important to us, so please consider what we offer to our community and include a gift to the Festival in your year-end giving. We thankfully accept both checks and gifts by charge card sent to our address: PO Box 569 , Green Lake , WI 54941. Of course, all contributions are fully tax deductible. Thank you!
Recent Artist News:
| Kotaro Fukuma performs in South Africa We have some exciting news about Kotaro Fukuma. Kotaro played for a Festival audience this past summer season at Thrasher Opera House and thrilled our audience with his tremendous abilities. He recently went on tour in South Africa to share his gifts with more audiences. The reviews were outstanding. He received a standing ovation as Howard Nock from the Port Elizabeth Herald reports "Fukuma played with both extrovert flair and deep musical insight, his skill allowing him to bring freshness and spontaneity to the composition that had the audience jumping to its feet and demanding an encore." After playing "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mossourgsky, Kristin Bell of the Grahamstown Grocott's Mail triumphantly said "Kotaro executed this renowned work with great finesse, showing a sensitivity for each individual mood needed for the particular painting. Ending to a resounding applause and a standing ovation..." The Green Lake Festival of Music was extremely fortunate to have had Kotaro as part of of 2006 Music in Motion season. To hear selections from Kotaros's concert this past July, listen to WPR in January and relive this marvelous performance or experience it for the first time. The dates are as follows: Sunday, January 28, 2 pm-Takemitsu Monday, January 29, 9 am-Schubert Sonata Tuesday, January 30, 1 pm-Albeniz Iberia, Book II Wednesday, January 31, 11 am- Mozart Sonata |
 Kotaro Fukuma in concert | |
More Artist News
William Bolcom, composer and pianist, who appeared with his wife, soprano Joan Morris, at the Festival in 2003, was awarded the nation’s highest honor for artistic excellence, a National Medal of Arts , by President and Mrs. Bush at a White House Oval Office ceremony on November 8. Bolcom was one of only 10 people to receive this honor.
Pianist Rieko Aizawa of the Amelia Piano Trio will be performing a little known concerto by Mozart’s big rival Salieri with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra next September. Aizawa recently performed two concerts live on the nationally syndicated WFMT radio network based in Chicago .
The Wall Street Journal recently wrote about the Amelia Piano Trio’s Dec. 3 concert in New York with renowned clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, in which they performed Paul Moravec’s Pulitzer-prize winning “Tempest Fantasy”, calling the trio “an exciting young chamber music group” and the audience’s reaction “the kind of ovation that any composer of modern music would die for.” The trio also performed a complete cycle of 6 Beethoven piano trios in three live concerts on the WFMT radio network in September. Each concert also involved a living composer: Augusta Read Thomas, John Harbison, and Daron Hagen, who discussed Beethoven’s influence on his/her life.
Amber Dolphin, who participated in the 2003 Chamber Music program, won a position in the first violin section of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra. She attended UW-Madison prior to this wonderful accomplishment.
Another past participant of out Chamber Music program, Casey Mullins, violist, has gone on to become a Shar Apprentice. Shar Apprentices are all music school graduates who answer questions and serve all of your strings needs at http://www.sharmusic.com/apprentice
Casey also had an important solo engagement recently playing the Walton Viola Concerto in Seattle .
It's always nice to hear what our Festival participants are doing. If you have some interesting news, please drop us an email and let us know what is new in your life so we can share all of these wonderful accomplishments with the entire Festival fanbase.
 Bob & Sheila House at the Salute to Bob House |
A Salute to Bob House On October 27, 2006, the Green Lake Festival of Music honored Dr. Bob House after 22 years as the Festival's leader. The event was a wonderful success and featured special music by Festival favorites Peter and Kathleen Van De Graaff, baritone and soprano, whose "Happy Birthday Mozart" concert was a highlight of our summer season. It was an extremely special evening that paid tribute to an outstanding individual. Bob, the Festival will miss you and we appreciate all of the years that you dedicated to making this organization what it is today. Thank you! | |
Get ready to celebrate the Holidays with gifts from the Green Lake Festival of Music. Check out our website for our brand new merchandise page. We have a selection of t-shirts, cds, note cards, and even a tote bag to help you ring in the holidays. The merchandise link will be situated on our main links. Just point and click on merchandise and you will be directed to gifts galore. Take a minute and check out this new feature on our website. To order merchandise, just call the Festival office at 1-800-662-7097 or 920-748-9398. We hope that you will find some items that will be sure to please this Holiday season. Click on the link below to be taken directly to the new page.
Festival merchandise
We'll see you there!
Jeannette, Kim, and Pam
www.greenlakefestival.org