Thursday, July 2nd at 7:30 PM
Please join us for our third "First Thursdays" concert of the summer! It will be a mix of music from across centuries, for a clarinet quartet, flute, and voice, presented by Boston-area musicians. See below for more information about the program and players.
Appetizers are provided by Bon Savor Restaurant and other friends of the series. We hope you will be moved to make a contribution in support of the series. There are no tickets sold, so we’ll call whatever you contribute a gift. That’s the spirit of the series…the gift of music shared with the community. For more information please contact us at info@jpconcerts.org.
Margo McGowan, clarinet
Monica Duncan, clarinet
William Kirkley, clarinet
Rane Moore, clarinet
Takao Shinzawa, flute
Peter Terry, voice
Program
Early Hungarian Dances, Ferenc Farkas
clarinet quartet
- Intrada
- Slow Dance
- Shoulder-Blade Dance
- Leaping Dance
Trio songs
flute, clarinet, voice
- Tre giorni son che Nina, Vincenzo Ciampi
- Plaisir d'amour, Jean Paul Egide Martini
Divertimento, Alfred Uhl
clarinet quartet
- Allegro
- Andante sostenuto, molto espressivo
- Allegro con brio
Japanese flute
French Suite, Yvonne Desportes
clarinet quartet
- Prélude
- Sarabande
- Gavotte
- Menuet
- Bourée
- Gigue
About the performers
Margo McGowan is a member of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, National Lyric Opera Company, The Bostonians, and the Lexington Symphony. She also performs frequently with Boston Ballet, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Boston Lyric Opera Company. She is a member of the Young Audiences of Massachusetts woodwind quintet North Winds, as well as the Northeast Quintet based in Rhode Island. Ms. McGowan has also been a guest artist for the Newport Music Festival. She has performed and recorded with the Kalman Opperman Clarinet Choir for the Sony/BMG label. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Longy School of Music, Phillips Academy/Andover, Brandeis University, and Eastern Nazarene College.
Clarinetist Monica Duncan freelances throughout the Greater Boston area, and has performed with Symphony by the Sea, Cape Ann, Lexington, and Greater Lansing Symphonies, North Shore Music Theater, Hillyer Festival Orchestra, Chalumeau Chamber Ensemble, and Arlington Street Chamber Players. Duncan has performed in Japan and Canada, and has premiered works at the 1999 SCI National Conference and the 1998 Latin American Music Festival. She can also be heard on the CDs Awaiting the Sun, FleetingVisions, and Metamorphosis through Beauport Classical, and Basically British with Philharmonia a Vént. Duncan holds a Masters degree from Indiana University where she studied with James Campbell and a Bachelors degree from Michigan State University. In addition to her role as performer, Duncan teaches clarinet from her private studio and in the Hamilton- Wenham School District. She is also a chamber music coach with the Northshore Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Active as an orchestral musician, recitalist, and chamber musician, clarinetist William Kirkley’s performances have been called “emotional, committed, and intensely exciting” by the Boston Globe. He has performed to acclaim with the Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the Santa Fe Opera, and throughout North America. Currently principal clarinet of the Lexington Symphony, the Cape Ann Symphony, and solo bass clarinetist with the Orchestra of Indian Hill, he is also the faculty mentor with the Gordon Symphony, and is on the music faculty of Gordon College. Mr. Kirkley is the clarinetist for the world renowned Boston Musica Viva, and was the clarinetist for the Auros Group for New Music for 15 years. He has given recital master classes at Harvard University, Brandeis University, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, Yale University, the SUNY campus’ of Fredonia, Cobleskill, and Albany. He has peformed and given lectures at the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, and ClarinetFest 1997 and 1999. Mr. Kirkley has been heard on WGBH’s Performance Today, and has recorded for the CRI, SEAMUS, New World, Albany Records, Reference, and New World labels.
Hailed by the Boston Phoenix as "phenomenal," clarinetist Rane Moore performs regularly at home and abroad. An enthusiastic interpreter of contemporary repertoire, she has given numerous premieres of new works and appeared with groups such as the Firebird Ensemble, Harvard Group for New Music, Raduis Ensemble, Ludovico Ensemble, and the Talea Ensemble. Her recent performance with Boston Musica Viva was called a "tour-de-force" by the Boston Globe. She has worked with a wide range of composers including Helmut Lachenmann, Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Fredrick Rzewski, Lee Hyla, Steve Reich and Brian Ferneyhough. Ms. Moore has been featured as a guest artist at the Royal College of Music and Drama in Wales and has worked closely with Pierre Boulez at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Other festival appearances include Nevada Encounters of New Music (NEON), Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo in Leon, Mexico, La Ciudad de las Ideas in Puebla, Mexico, and Festival Internacional de Música Clásica Contemporánea de Lima. As an orchestral musician she has performed with the Owensboro Symphony in Kentucky, the Columbus, Indiana Philharmonic, and the New England Philharmonic. She has recorded for Gravina Música and Mode records. Ms. Moore holds degrees from Indiana University, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and the University of California at Berkeley.
Takao Shinzawa came to America from Japan thirty years ago, and has been living for 24 of those years in Jamaica Plain. He enjoys gardening and drawing, and works part-time at Mass Art. Takao plays Western flute and Japanese flutes called Ryuteki and Komabue, which are integral to Gagaku dance and ceremonial music…with an unbroken history stretching more than a millennium.
Peter Terry starting singing at age 3 and 52 years later he is still at it. His voice has been described as “masculine lace”, and as “lush” and “astonishing”. A performer of opera, oratorio, liturgical, chamber and solo recital repertoire, Peter has sung in India, Israel, Europe and up and down both coasts of the States, as well as a number of points in between.