Young Artists
Open
Festival Season
June 2
Festival of Music
2007 Season
Widen Your Horizons
FREE CONCERT!
Saturday, June 2
7:30 p.m.
Thrasher Opera House
Saturday, June 2
7:30 p.m.
Thrasher Opera House
ALSO:
- Preview of the season, 6:45 p.m.
- Free "Guide to Chamber Music" written by the Amelia Piano Trio
- Drawing for a pair of free tickets.
No
tickets necessary.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Lynn and Jerry Grout.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Lynn and Jerry Grout.
Tim Sawyier is a third-year student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studies with Richard Woodhams, Principal Oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Tim's many awards include a $25,000 "Music for Youth" Foundation Award, one of two given annually through the youngARTS program, and a 2004 Presidential Scholars in the Arts nomination. Tim has appeared on National Public Radio's "From the Top" program, and has appeared as soloist with the Encore Chamber Orchestra, Kishwaukee Symphony, Birch Creek Music Center Orchestra, and the Chicago Youth Concert Orchestra. Tim has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, and this summer he will return to the Tanglewood Music Center where he was the Fernand Gillet Oboe Fellow and winner of the Mickey Hooten Memorial Award in 2005. In addition to his studies at Curtis, Tim is pursuing his interest in modern European history at the University of Pennsylvania.
Michelle Naughton, who resides in Madison, is a student of Clilburn Competition medalist Christopher Taylor. She has soloed with the Madison Symphony, the Ars Viva Orchestra and the Park Ridge Symphony of Chicago, and gave a recital on the Pianoforte Chicago piano series in Chicago. In 2003 she was featured on a Comcast television special, and her competition wins include first prize in the 2005 Virginia Waring International Piano Competition in Palm Desert, California; the Chicago Steinway Society's "Most Promising Pianist" competition; and first prize in the PianoArts Biennial National Competition. Michelle was Artist in Residence with the Gulf Coast Symphony in 2005, and performed at St. John's Cathedral in Denver, Colorado in 2006. Michelle also enjoys performing two-piano music with her twin sister Christina, with whom she has given duo recitals in San Francisco, Chicago and Palm Springs. In the 2007-08 season, the sisters will perform on the Artist Series of Sarasota, the San Francisco Chamber Music Society Series, and with the Erie Philharmonic.
Tim and Michelle's musical paths have crossed several times in the past: both have been winners of the Midwest Young Artists Concerto Competition in Chicago, and both have appeared on the Music in the Loft concert series in Chicago. Next fall their paths will cross once again, as Michelle will join Tim as a student at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music.
Their program will include music by Telemann, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Chopin, and a surprise encore!
Tim Sawyier, award-winning oboist
Michelle Naughton,
2006 winner of Milwaukee's PianoArts National Competition
2006 winner of Milwaukee's PianoArts National Competition
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