SOGO March 4, 2018 Concert Program by Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia

2017-2018 Season Sunday, March 4, 4:00p.m. Washington Center

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Featuring Northwest artists Carrie Rehkopf and John Michel performing the Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello 1

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Concerto for Violin and Cello, Johannes Brahms Allegro, Andante, Vivace non troppo Carrie Rehkopf, violin John Michel, cello Pines of Rome, Ottorino Respighi

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Carrie Rehkopf, Violin

Carrie Rehkopf has crafted an exciting career blending the best of the worlds of performing and teaching. An enthusiastic teacher, she has served as the violin professor at Central Washington University since 1990. Her students are immediately employed upon graduation, and teach across the United States as well as in Hong Kong and Japan. As first violinist of the Kairos Quartet, she has toured North America over the past 20 years. She founded and was director of the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute from 1995-2004, and of the Kairos Chamber Music Lyceum in 2005-6. In addition to numerous solo recitals and concerto performances with youth orchestras and the CWU Symphony Orchestra, she has soloed with the Everett Symphony and Philharmonic, and the Olympia, Wenatchee, Yakima, Southwest Washington and Lake Sammamish Symphonies. Before her position in higher education Ms. Rehkopf performed with various professional orchestras, including serving as Associate Principal Second of the Honolulu Symphony. She received her degrees from University of Michigan on a full tuition scholarship, studying with Camilla Wicks. She studied further in London with David Takeno. She and her cellist husband John Michel have three rambunctious boys. Despite possessing a variety of other interests, these poor children were also forced to practice their stringed instruments. They can now read Beethoven quartets with their unrepentant parents. Source: themichels.org/carrie/Carrie_Rehkopf/Bio.html

John Michel, Cello

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John Michel, in his twenty-seventh year as cello professor at Central Washington University, enjoys his eclectic career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Mr. Michel is a member of the Kairos String Quartet, which holds an endowed professorship as the resident ensemble of Central Washington University. For the past twenty years the Kairos Quartet has been regularly performing and teaching throughout the Northwest. He is the founder and former director of the Internet Cello Society, a cyber-community of cellists, that shares the knowledge and joy of cello playing with enthusiasts from around the globe. During the summers, Mr. Michel performs and teaches at the Kairos Chamber Music Lyceum, Marrowstone Music Festival and the Evergreen Music Festival. He also has been co-director and faculty at the Icicle Creek Music Festival and Institute. He founded StringTeaching.com that features videos of fundamental exercises and activities for string instruction. The American String Teacher Association, Washington chapter, named him Outstanding College String Teacher in 1996. He serves on the board of the New Directions Cello Association. His formal training includes Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Michigan and the New England Conservatory. Bernard Greenhouse of the Beaux Arts Trio, Jeffrey Solow, Stefan Popov, Ned Johnson, John Lenz and Susan Ladley were his main teachers. He is married to Kairos Quartet violinist Carrie Rehkopf, and father of three active young men. He enjoys tennis and strategy games including online chess. Source: cwu.edu/music/john-michel

About the Music Concerto for Violin and Cello (1887) By Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Johannes Brahms was a German composer of the Romantic period. He began playing piano at the age of seven. As a teenager, he helped support his family by performing in local inns and taverns. Brahms wrote Concerto for Violin and Cello as an attempt to mend his broken friendship with violinist Joseph Joachim. They had fallen out when a letter of support Brahms wrote to Joachim’s wife was made public in their divorce proceedings. After the premiere in 1887, Clara Schumann wrote in her diary “Joachim and Brahms have spoken to one another again after years of silence.” The soloists for the premiere were Joachim and cellist Robert Hausmann, with Brahms conducting. Cellist John Michel says the piece is a “unique concerto for violin and cello solo and full orchestra. It is a favorite of both audiences and performers. The orchestra parts share constantly in the dialogue with the soloists and the writing features Brahms’ rich and expressive harmonies.”

Pines of Rome (1924)

By Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) A successful violinist, Respighi left Italy to travel and study. He went to Russia where he played in the St. Petersburg Opera House and studied composition with Rimsky-Korsakov. Finally returning to Italy, he enjoyed a long and successful career as teacher of composition at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. Respighi became famous through his symphonic poems titled Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome and Roman Festivals. Written in classical forms of the past, these works demonstrate his musical pictorialism constructed out of old modes and plain chants of the Renaissance. The Pines of Rome (1924) is four movements without interruption: Pines of the Villa Borghese picture children playing mimicking marching soldiers; Pines Near a Catacomb is hymn-like depicting shadows of the pine trees overhanging the entrance to the catacombs; Pines of the Janiculum reveals the moon-light night and a nightingale singing; Pines of the Appian Way begins with the distant sound of Roman soldiers marching towards the city center. As they get closer the brass usher in one of the largest crescendos ever heard in orchestral literature at the time...

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Conductors

John Welsh, Music Director

Greg Allison, Artistic Director

John Welsh brings a wealth of experience, leadership, and direction to the members of the Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia (SOGO).

Greg Allison received his B.A. and M.A. in Music Education from Western Washington University where he studied trumpet with the late William D. Cole. Mr. Allison has taught instrumental music in the Olympia School District for over 30 years. His bands have been chosen to perform at the State and Northwest Music Educators’ Conference and the Western International Band Clinic.

His past conducting engagements include Resident Conductor of the Rainier Symphony Orchestra in Tukwila and Music Director positions with the Bremerton Symphony Orchestra, the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra in Tennessee, the Prince William Symphony, Georgetown Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area. Mr. Welsh has conducted the San Miguel Philharmonic in Manila, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the New World Symphony in Miami, the Festival International Echternach Chamber Orchestra in Luxembourg, the Metropolitan Chamber Players at Lincoln Center, the Arlington Symphony, the Annapolis Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and the Shenandoah Music Festival Orchestra. He has also held residencies at Indiana University.  Mr. Welsh holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano from Miami University in Ohio and a Masters in Conducting from Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. While serving as a Captain in the United States Air Force, he conducted the United States Air Force Band and Symphony and Military Airlift Command Band. His mentors include Richard Lert, Leo Mueller, Leon Barzin, Leon Fleisher, Kiril Kondrashin, Max Rudolph and Gustav Meier. Mr. Welsh is very proud to be the first Music Director of SOGO and Conductor of the Conservatory Orchestra.

Mr. Allison has performed in the Northwest Wind Symphony, the 22nd Ave Dixieland Band, the Tacoma Concert Band, and the Evergreen Brass Quintet. He has been a guest adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor for state and regional festivals and conventions including the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. He has served on the Washington Music Educator’s board of directors, managed WMEA High School and Junior All-State, and was a recipient of the WMEA Teacher of the Year for middle level education. In 2014, he was inducted into the WMEA Hall of Fame.

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Conductors Jeffery N. Lund

Jeffery N. Lund, Academy Orchestra Conductor, holds a Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting from Central Washington University, where he directed the University Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Contemporary Chamber Players, Ellensburg Campus-Community Orchestra (ECCO), and the Kittitas Valley Youth Orchestra. As an Interim Professor of Music at Central Michigan University, he conducted the University Orchestra, and the Percussion Ensemble. Currently, Mr. Lund is the Music Director with the Rainier Symphony. He is also an Associate Conductor with the Tacoma Community College Orchestra. Since his return to Washington in 2009, Mr. Lund has been involved in Music Education with the Tacoma Youth Symphony, Icicle Creek Youth Symphony, and as the Music Director for the Capital Youth Symphony. Also holding a Masters Degree in Percussion Performance, Mr. Lund is an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Puget Sound and is active in performing throughout Washington with the Tacoma Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, and various other groups around the Seattle area. Actively sought out as a guest clinician/adjudicator, Mr. Lund has held Masterclasses at multiple music festivals as well as being invited to perform as a Guest Artist in venues from Benaroya Hall in Seattle to Carnegie Hall in New York. Mr. Lund is the recipient of the Hubbard Scholarship and is a Liberace Scholar.

Jennifer Marin

Jennifer Marin, SOGO Debut Orchestra Conductor, is a respected, collaborative, and innovative music educator with more than 18 years of small-schools experience. She is the Band Director and elementary Music Specialist for the K-8 Griffin School District outside Olympia. A long-standing WMEA member, Ms. Marin has presented at state and regional conferences, presided over conference sessions, served as conductor for the Centralia Community College Orchestra, performed with the Northwest Wind Symphony, South Sound Community Band, and served as Secretary/Treasurer for the Chinook Region Music Educators Association for 4 Years. Ms. Marin previously worked with the Debut Orchestra for the first nine years of SOGO. Ms. Marin holds a BA in Instrumental Music Education at Pacific Lutheran University and has engaged in graduate studies at Southern Oregon Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s American Band College. She has a small private studio for flute.

Travis Sipher

Travis Sipher, SOGO Debut Orchestra Conductor, is the orchestra director at Capital High School and Jefferson Middle School. Mr. Sipher earned his degrees in Cello and Music Education from Western Washington University. He served as assistant conductor of the Eugene Community Orchestra in Oregon. Mr. Sipher previously worked with SOGOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s POGO program at the Boys and Girls Club.

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Elizabeth Ward, Assistant Conductor Brass Choir and SOGO French Horn Teaching Artist, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington and a Master of Musical Arts degree from Yale School of Music. Ms. Ward is a former member of the New Haven Symphony, Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra, Pennsylvania Orchestra, Philadelphia Opera Orchestra and Young Audiences Inc. of Philadelphia. Returning to the Northwest, Ms. Ward founded the Evergreen Brass Quintet, well known for its outstanding educational presentations. As a studio teacher Ms. Wardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students have consistently received awards on the local and national levels. Ms. Ward is Assistant Conductor of the Tacoma Junior Youth Symphony, and Conductor of the Tacoma Youth Symphony Orchestraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brass Choir and Chamber Winds.

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Mary Jo Knesal Rydholm, Ensemble Coordinator and SOGO Violin Teaching Artist, teaches in the Olympia School District and is a Nationally Certified Music Teacher. She has served as Concertmaster for several symphony orchestras in Washington State. An avid chamber musician, she completed her Chamber Music Workshop Director Internship under Dr. Valgene Phillips, at Humboldt State University (CA) and has since served as the SOGO Ensemble Coordinator. She also coaches the Conservatory strings.

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Be sure to bid on some enjoyable experiences for Mother’s Day gifts, Father’s Day gifts, or just for fun! Basket items are on display in the lobby today. Bids will end after intermission. Winners will be able to take home their items this evening. A Day at the Park: Two tickets to a Tacoma Rainiers baseball game for the 2018 Season. Includes: parking, food, beverages & reserved seating. Basket also includes Rainiers gear-signed baseball, hat & more! Fill the Frame! Let our photographer focus on your musician & provide 6-10 edited photo files on a DVD or thumb drive. Your son or daughter will be highlighted in at least one rehearsal & at the May concert. Items includes a frame. This item is available for TWO guaranteed bids! Treat Yourself: Spa basket from Antidote includes a 30 minute hydrosoothe, body butter, body oil, scented lotions, face cream & wash. A Night at the Symphony: Two ticket vouchers to an Olympia Symphony Orchestra concert and a dinner gift certificate. Pastel Lessons for Two! Let the artist in you emerge while you enjoy a pastel art class with a local artist. Item includes a canvas bag filled with everything you need to get started!

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2017-2018 Donors Bischofberger Violins, LTD Goldberg Family Isabelle Bohman Charitable Foundation Carla Nagle Carol Tamblyn Carlson Sponsor, $2,000 to $4,999 Georganne & Scott Anonymous Copeland Olympia Federal Savings Helen & Evan Cropp Olympic Dermatology & Dr. & Mrs. Damitio Laser Clinic, INC. P.S. Sheila & Jerry Fay The Community Foundation Carolyn Folden of South Puget Sound Gretchen & David Gacetta ThurstonTalk Teresa & Robert Gilbert WA State Arts Commission Bonnie & Peter Hauschka Kari & Tom Hertter Guarantor, $1,000 to $1,999 David & Linda Hoffman Academy Mortgage Kristen Jaudon Corporation, Kathy Pat & Paul Kabler Randich Judith Kimeldorf Cabinets by Trivonna Dr. George & Linda Lamb Capital Heating & Cooling Judy & Norman Lund Dorrie & Harold Carr Laurie & Fred MacInnes Lindsey & Doug Ford Ginny & Justin Nordhorn Dana & Josh Phelps Nancy & Ernie Rascon Jeanne & Greg Tranum Virginia Ray Dr. Scott and Amy Rowley Benefactor, $500 to $999 Anne & Ronald Schafer Chris & David Bartruff Patricia Shramek Charneski Charitable Fund Dwayne Slate Mary & John Fleckenstein Lisa & David Smith Mary Milnes Floyd Smith PCS Structural Solutions Sandra & Mark Spee Ed Sandor Helen Tafejian Deifi & Doug Stolz Janet Cherry & Mark Timberland Bank Teply Tumwater Eye Clinic & VUE, Vondean & Bob Thompson Dr. Doug & Karen Jeske Debbra Warren Washington State Patron, $250 to $499 Federation of Music Anonymous Clubs Dawkins Charitable Trust Deborah & Bruce West Kathryn Guykema Sarah & Steve Hauschka Donor, $50 to $99 Olympia Pediatrics, PLLC Anonymous (3) Martha Robbins Mary Jane & Frederick Elizabeth Ward Adair Colleen Welch Jennie Adkins John Welsh Roger Baugh Christina & Jessie Zach Mark Damitio Cherie Davidson Friend, $100 to $249 Jeanyce Derby Anonymous Beth Dubey Ramona & Greg Allen Jennifer Ferguson Joan & Greg Armstrong Phyllis Freitas Philanthropist, $5,000 +

Denise LaFlamme & Brad Grimsted Ryan & Kurtis Hall Nancy Hoff Melissa Johnson Jennifer & Samuel Meyer Lois & Brian Midles Bill & Nancy Mikkelsen Mary Nordlund Bernadine & Suryakant Santi Frances Tanaka Kim & Roger Wigfield Contributor, $25 to $49

Stacy Yarbrough & Bret Bertolin Joan A. Boileau Diane Coulter Evelyn & John Coyne Judith & Raymond DeBuse Catherine Young & Kirk Ericson Elizabeth Fox Patricia Kay Marnie & Donn Livingstone Cheryl Roosendaal & Kevin McFarland Dee & Richard Morton Patricia Mosure Jennifer Bowman, Olympia Piano Lynn & Glenn Scroggins Miriam Sterlin & Ryan Stephens Kathleen & Thomas Stidham, Jr. Stormanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Inc. Dannette Sturm Linda Wozniak Member, up to $24

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Greg & Krina Allison Anitidote Spa & Salon Bud Bay Cafe Levin Conway Dolores Damitio Stephanie Ehinger Doug Ford Doug Gross Sadie Hawkins Music & Arts Joy Nguyen Ginny Nordhorn Olympia Seafood Company Pacific Lutheran University Print NW R.L. Ray Violin Shop Kathy Rosmond Salon Salon Ed Sandor Linda Schmitt TAGS Awards & Specialties Rose This Mark Thome ThurstonTalk TSS Washington Center for the Performing Arts We gratefully acknowledge the many donors who support SOGO. We make every effort to ensure accuracy. Please inform us of errors or omissions by contacting us at studentorchestras@gmail.com. Donations in memory of or in honor of someone special are gladly accepted. SOGO is a registered 501c(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization and accepts both tax-deductible donations and in-kind contributions. We are always looking for new concert sponsors and advertisers. Contributor list updated 02/23/18.

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