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TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome from HHSO President and CEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Welcome from the Festival Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 HHSO Racial Equality Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Schedule At A Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

ARTISTS Cheng-Chow Trio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Priscila Navarro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Michael Braz and HHSO Musicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Jack Winerock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Chamber Music Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Martin Lesch & Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Sullivan Fortner and Cėcile McLorin Salvant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Lavon Stevens & Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

FINALE Finale Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Reed Tetzloff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Michelle Cann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

SUSTAINING THE HHIPC Business Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 88 Keys Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Pay-for-a-Piper Patrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Special Thanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Donors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Volunteers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Save-the-Date/2020 Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 WWW.HHIPC.ORG

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Alan Jordan, President and CEO

Live musical performances have been in uniquely short supply over the past 14 months. That is why we at the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra are more than usually excited about our Hilton Head Piano Competition’s BravoPiano! ...A Festival Celebrating the Music of the Americas. Ten memorable performances over nine days in both intimate and grand venues on Hilton Head Island and in Bluffton should be the perfect cure for our culture-starved patrons.

This Festival is unique and exciting because of its focus on music exclusively created in the Western Hemisphere. Audiences will delight in both familiar and lesser-known compositions and in experiencing the breadth of great music that we have created.

We are so happy to present former competitors as well as new stars from the classical, jazz, and local folk genres to share their talent and perspectives.

Please enjoy the riches that this Festival has to offer in our wonderful Lowcountry!

Alan Jordan President and CEO

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HILTON HEAD INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

Mona Huff, Director

Dear Friends, It is hard to believe that the last, live, in-person musical event which occurred on Hilton Head Island was the Finals of the 2020 Hilton Head International Piano Competition. That date was March 14, 2020. The very next day the Island closed tight. It has been fourteen long months of sheltering in place, lots of “Zooming”and streaming, minimal personal contact with family and friends and no travel. And now, after a very long wait, live music is finally returning to our community.

So, WELCOME BACK! I know how much I have missed sitting in a space — shared by musicians and fellow music lovers—watching and listening to live music.

We started dreaming of the theme for BravoPiano!, “Celebrating the Music of the Americas,” more than two years ago. So, what exactly are the Americas? Two entire continents (plus the Caribbean and Central America), 35 countries, 10 official languages and nearly one billion people!

There has been so much incredible music written in the Americas, some of it wellknown--Gershwin, Copland, Joplin, Bernstein to name a few composers—and many, many more not as well- known. When you attend a BravoPiano! concert, we think you will ask yourself why that is. As you page through the program book, the depth and variety of the music of the Americas will be evident.

We are so happy to welcome back to Hilton Head some of our jurors who now have an opportunity to perform for us, as well as several former competitors who are now busy sharing their talents in concert halls around the globe. This year’s theme also gives us an opportunity to showcase several of the Lowcountry’s supremely talented groups. There is something for every piano lover.

We hope you enjoy taking this musical journey with us. Let’s Festival together!

Mona Huff Competition Director

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HHSO RACIAL EQUALITY STATEMENT The HHSO affirms that all races are equal. We intentionally and systematically support HHSO policies and practices in our organization that promote opportunities for full advancement of African-Americans and other marginalized groups that have been denied equal access and opportunity. Our local situation gives good historical example of the possibility for transformative change. That example is Mitchelville, one of our Lowcountry’s treasures. It was a bold and brave experiment of 1861, before the Emancipation Proclamation, in which formerly enslaved people were granted land and provisions to build homes and to establish a working town that was self-governing. The HHSO recognizes that selfgovernance and mastery depend on equal opportunity. So, we seize the current adverse racial situation as our opportunity to become a positive change agent that will actively pursue diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in all of our policies, programs, staff, committees, and Board.

The HHSO recognizes that racial inequity is systemic throughout our society.

The HHSO therefore will examine its operations to address any racial inequality in our organization. We will work to eradicate any such adverse influence and to ensure that racial equality is integral to our mission and to implementation of our administrative and programming activities. We commit to all processes that will help us achieve our racial equity goal. We are committed to a racially inclusive approach in all that we do because we respect and value diverse racial heritages and know that hearing diverse voices will enrich what we have to offer.

Programs and Musicians: We shall schedule more performances of orchestral music by composers of color. We will be conscientious in recruitment, hiring, and advancement of musicians of color for all standard programs and competitions.

Staff: We will be deliberate in our effort to attract racially diverse staff in our recruitment and hiring activities and commit to providing equitable advancement opportunities for them.

Board of Directors: The HHSO Board pledges to seek increased representation of racially diverse directors and actively encourage opportunity for their Board leadership.

We respect diverse life experiences and work to ensure that all voices are heard and valued, and commit to creating a more comprehensive action plan that addresses diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging for all marginalized groups.

Adopted August 12, 2020

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SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE All performances $30/person General Admission

Friday, June 4 at 7:30 pm | First Presbyterian Church, 540 William Hilton Parkway The Cheng-Chow Trio • Music from the American Stage Three pianists share two pianos to perform works of Copland, Gershwin, Bernstein and others who wrote for the American musical stage Saturday, June 5 at 7:30 pm | St. Luke’s Church, 50 Pope Avenue Priscila Navarro • Rhythms of Latin America Ms. Navarro, a native of Peru, explores the influence of dance rhythms on the music of South American, Caribbean and Mexican composers Sunday, June 6 at 7:30 pm | All Saints Episcopal Church, 3001 Meeting Street Michael Braz and HHSO Musicians Play Chamber Music by American composers Monday, June 7 at 7:30 pm | St. Luke’s Church, 50 Pope Avenue Jack Winerock • Yankee Doodle and More Mr. Winerock’s program traces the history of piano music by American composers from Yankee Doodle Dandy to the mid-twentieth century Tuesday, June 8 at 3:00 pm | All Saints Episcopal Church, 3001 Meeting Street Chamber Music Charleston This world-class ensemble will showcase chamber works by American composer Amy Beach and others Tuesday, June 8 at 7:30 pm | Hilton Head Beach and Tennis Resort, 40 Folly Field Road Martin Lesch and Friends • Sing Out The Lesch quartet (piano, guitar, bass, drums) will perform a variety of beloved American songs from the 20th and 21st centuries Wednesday, June 9 at 7:30 pm | Hilton Head Beach and Tennis, 40 Folly Field Road Sullivan Fortner • Jazz—A Quintessential American Art Form Fortner, a Grammy-award-winning pianist, will dive into jazz standards with vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant Friday, June 11 at 7:30 pm | Lowcountry Presbyterian Church, 10 Simmonsville Road Bluffton Lavon Stevens & Company • Influences of Gullah-Geechee Music With a nod to Lowcountry heritage, Mr. Stevens will trace Gullah-Geechee musical influences on American jazz, blues and gospel Saturday, June 12 at 7:30 pm | First Presbyterian Church, 540 William Hilton Parkway Finale • Michelle Cann and Reed Tetzloff in Recital Ms. Cann and Mr. Tetzloff will cap the Festival with music by 20th century American composers Florence Price, Charles Ives, Charles Griffes, Rzewski and George Gershwin

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CHENG-CHOW TRIO

The Cheng-Chow Trio is composed of Angela Cheng, Alvin Chow and Alan Chow. The ensemble is a family affair — identical twin brothers Alan and Alvin, with Alvin’s wife, Angela Cheng. All three pianists are acclaimed performers in their own right, but they provide a unique concert experience when they combine forces. All three have been judges for the HHIPC. Consistently praised for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty, and superb musicianship, Canadian pianist Angela Cheng is one of her country’s national treasures.

During the 2019/2020 season, Ms. Cheng served as an Artistic Partner of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra where she will perform three concertos throughout the season. Other highlights of the season include return engagements with the symphonies of Vancouver, Victoria, and Nova Scotia. In the U.S., Ms. Cheng performed with the symphonies of Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Richmond and Canton, as well as the IRIS Chamber Orchestra.

Ms. Cheng has given concerts in Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and the 92nd Street Y in New York. She has also performed in the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, the Mariinsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg and the Sydney Opera House. She has appeared at the Verbier, Edinburgh, Miyazaki, St. Petersburg/Stars of the White Nights, and Enescu/Romania Festivals.

An avid recitalist, Ms. Cheng appears regularly on recital series throughout the United States and Canada and has collaborated with numerous chamber ensembles including the Takács, Colorado, and Vogler quartets. Festival appearances have included Banff, Bravo!

Vail, Chautauqua, Colorado, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla’s SummerFest, Ravinia, Vancouver, the Festival International de Lanaudière in Quebec, Toronto Summer Music Festival, the Cartegena International Music Festival in Colombia and the SchleswigHolstein festival in Germany.

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Alvin Chow has appeared throughout North America and in Asia as orchestral soloist and recitalist. He has also performed extensively in duo-piano recitals with his wife, Angela Cheng, and his twin brother, Alan. He graduated summa cum laude and Co-Valedictorian (with his brother) at the University of Maryland, where he was a student of Nelita True. Mr. Chow received the Victor Herbert Prize in Piano upon graduation from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Sascha Gorodnitzki, and held the Joseph Battista Memorial Scholarship at Indiana University as a student of Menahem Pressler.

Alvin has been presented as recitalist in such cities as Hong Kong, Shanghai, Wuhan, Vienna, Montreal, New York, and Los Angeles, and has appeared as soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic, and the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg, among others. He has been Convention Artist for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and numerous state MTNA conferences.

A Steinway Artist, Alan Chow has served on the artist faculty of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and is currently Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music.

Cheng - Chow Trio Music From The American Stage Friday, June 4 at 7:30 pm First Presbyterian Church Copland (American)

El Salón México (1936)

Copland (American)

Billy the Kid (1938)

Gershwin/Grainger (American) Fantasy on Porgy and Bess (1951)

He has presented numerous master classes throughout the United States and abroad, including the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Colburn School in Los Angeles, the Eastman School of Music and Indiana University, among many others. He has been invited to perform and teach at numerous summer festivals, including the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria and the Lake Como Piano Festival in Italy.

Arlen/Hirtz (American)

Wizard of Oz Fantasy

Corigliano (American)

Excerpts from Gazebo Dances (1972)

Alvin Chow currently serves as Director of the Division of Keyboard Studies at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017.

Guastavino (Argentina)

Romance No. 1

Bernstein/Duarte (American)

“America” (West Side Story)

Alan Chow has performed to critical acclaim in major venues such as New York’s Lincoln Center and Merkin Hall and Chicago’s Symphony Center and Ravinia; and with orchestras in the United States and Asia, including concerto performances with the National, Pan Asian, Utah, Oakland, Kansas City, and Omaha Symphonies and the Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tulsa Philharmonics. Mr. Chow won First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and the Silver Medal and Audience Favorite Prize at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. Other awards include First Prizes in the UCLA and Palm Beach Invitational International piano competitions.

As a chamber musician, Alan has collaborated with the American, Pacifica, and Miami and Escher String Quartets and been a guest artist at numerous festivals. In addition, he appears in recital in the Cheng-Chow Trio with pianists Angela Cheng and his twin brother Alvin Chow. Mr. Chow regularly tours Asia with performances in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, India and China.

He has given master classes throughout North America, Asia, and in Europe at conservatories, universities, and summer festivals, and is active as a juror for many piano competitions. He has served as guest professor at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, honored visiting professor at the Shenyang Conservatory, and Visiting Associate Professor at Oberlin Conservatory. His former and current students have been winners in many national and international piano competitions.

INTERMISSION

Piazolla (Argentina) Oblivion (1982), Libertangó (1974)

The music chosen for this program had its origin in the inspiration of two works by Aaron Copland, El Salón México (1936) and music from the ballet Billy the Kid (1938). Both of these pieces were composed during a period in which Copland was attempting to reach mass audiences, particularly the many Americans still suffering from the debilitating effects of the Great Depression. By infusing his works with a sense of hope and patriotism and at the same time incorporating folk tunes into many of them, he helped define in musical terms the myriad aspects of what it means to be an American.

The other works on this program from the US and South America fall into the same genre of music for the larger inclusive audience, whether it is through dance (Copland’s Billy the Kid, the Gazebo Dances of John Corigliano, the tangos of Astor Piazzolla), opera (Porgy and Bess, George and Ira Gershwin), Broadway (West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein) and Hollywood movies (Wizard of Oz, Harold Arlen). Each was written to be enjoyed by a wide audience, and it is our pleasure to present this musical gift to all who are present.

This performance is made possible by a generous contribution from Terry and Mary Ann Putnam.

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PRISCILA NAVARRO Priscila Navarro was born In Huánuco, Peru. She began her piano studies at the National Conservatory of Music (now the University of Music) in Lima, Peru, where she was a student of Lydia Hung. She attended several festivals at a young age, where she was always acknowledged as a special talent. She was the winner of the Maddy Summer Artist award at Interlochen Summer Camp, as well as the Kiwanis Music Festival Concerto Competition in Toronto.

Ms. Navarro has won numerous awards in international competitions, including first prize at the Liszt-Garritson piano competition, the Chopin competition of Texas, the Beethoven Sonata competition in Memphis, the Imola City Awards, Italy, the special Bach prize at the International Piano Competition city of Vigo "Argerich Edition," and most recently the Heida Hermanns International Competition.

Ms. Navarro made her Carnegie Hall Solo Recital Debut in 2013. Since then, she has performed in major halls in the United States, Europe, South America, and China. She is equally at home as a soloist with orchestra, in solo recital, or as a collaborator with other artists.

She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Florida Gulf Coast University, as a pupil of Dr. Michael Baron, where she held the Steinway Society Scholarship, the Van Williams Scholarship and the Lussenhop Scholarship. She holds a Masters degree and an Artist Diploma from the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where she was a student of Santiago Rodriguez and Kevin Kenner. She currently pursues a Doctorate in Piano Performance and Pedagogy, and simultaneously studies at the Imola Piano Academy with the legendary Boris Petrushansky.

Ms. Navarro competed in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in 2019 and in Cleveland’s Virtu(al)oso Competition in 2020. She has been selected as one of the 24 finalists for the Leeds 2021.

Given her heritage, Priscila has always been partial to Latin composers, a perfect fit for BravoPiano! Celebrating the Music of the Americas.

This performance is made possible by a generous contribution from Mike and Mary Briggs.

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Priscila Navarro In Recital Rhythms Of Latin America Saturday, June 5 at 7:30 pm St. Luke’s Church Astor Piazzolla (Argentina) “Adiós Nonino” Tango Rhapsody Ignacio Cervantes (Cuba) Danzas Cubanas (Soledad, Adiós a Cuba, Siempre Si, Los Tres Golpes, Ilusiones Perdidas) Ernesto Lecuona (Cuba) Danzas Afrocubanas (Danza Negra, La Comparsa) Antonio Maria Valencia (Colombia)

El Sotareño — Bambuco

Remo Pignoni (Argentina)

Por el sur — Huella

Ernesto Nazareth (Brazil) Desengocado — Tango Brasileiro Alberto Ginastera (Argentina)

Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22

INTERMISSION Manuel María Ponce (México)

Intermezzo No. 1 (1909)

Manuel María Ponce (México)

Romanza de Amor

Jimmy López (Perú)

Ccantu (2011)

Gershwin/Wild (American) Seven Virtuoso Etudes (Lady Be Good, Liza, Embraceable You, Somebody Loves Me, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, The Man I Love, I Got Rhythm) I was so excited to be invited back to Hilton Head, especially for this festival celebrating the music of the Americas. As a classical pianist from Peru, I wanted to take this opportunity to share music from Latin America as well as some of my favorite North American classics. Much of the music of the American continent is influenced by dances of the different regions. My program reflects the richness found in this variety, emphasizing the duality between song and dance.

As a wonderful teacher once told me, we must try to sing the dance. In the first half I include dance-inspired music: the Argentinian tango, many varieties of Cuban dances as well as Afro-Cuban rhythms, and finally the first sonata of Ginastera, who infused all his academic music with many genres of South American dances.

The second half of the program presents beautiful lyrical pieces, as well as a work by a living composer. I chose to end with Earl Wild’s arrangements of Gershwin songs, the embodiment of a singing piano. Gershwin captures the American spirit in a way that is both admired and loved by people all around the world, and Wild’s transcriptions allow us to play some of his most famous songs.

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MICHAEL BRAZ AND HHSO MUSICIANS Michael Braz, Principal Keyboard of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, is completing his 13-year HHSO tenure with this performance. Dr. Braz received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the University of Miami and his Ph.D. from Florida State University. During a half-century of piano, harpsichord, celesta, and other keyboard performances, he has participated in such varied concert venues as the Dolmetsch Festival of Early Music (Haslemere, UK), the New Hampshire Music Festival and the Savannah Music Festival. He has previously collaborated with the Portland (ME) Symphony, the Augusta (GA) Symphony, and—most recently—the Charleston Symphony and Savannah Philharmonic.

As Professor Emeritus of Music at Georgia Southern University and a 24-year faculty member, Braz has taught coursework in theory, composition/arranging, orchestration, and music education, as well as classes on such subjects as Finale music software and Wagner's Ring Cycle. In demand as a collaborative pianist, clinician, lecturer, and adjudicator, he was also a book and music reviewer for various professional journals and publishers. In the midst of his university career, he embarked on a one-year international sabbatical, instructing faculty and students of various ages and backgrounds at St. Benedict’s Catholic School and Performing Arts College (Derby, England), Nepal Music Center (Kathmandu), and Huazhong Normal University (Wuhan, China).

Recipient of an American Composers Forum/Rockefeller Brothers “Faith Partners” grant, Braz has a number of published choral and instrumental compositions and arrangements to his credit, many of which remain in print. Additionally, he has composed two operas: Memoirs from the Holocaust (inspired by a visit to the Dachau concentration camp site) and A Scholar Under Siege, dealing with the 1940’s firing of a respected college president by a populist Georgia governor.

His hobbies include comparative religions and trekking the Nepal Himalaya.

This performance is made possible by a generous contribution from Charlie and Joan Dattelbaum.

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Michael Braz plays Chamber Music with the HHSO Sunday, June 6 at 7:30 pm All Saints Episcopal Church Foote (American) Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.38 (1897) Muczynski (American) Fantasy Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 26 (1969) INTERMISSION Schoenfield (American)

Café Music (1987)

I’ve always found the combination of solo performance, orchestral keyboard, and chamber music to be both complementary and artistically appealing. While I may shape my own decisions as a soloist (based of course on style, tradition, and a healthy respect for the “voices within my head”), I look to a conductor for guidance in a sort of Gestalt, sublimating my own will for the success of the larger ensemble. Chamber music, in contrast, is a conversation, an exercise in group decision-making, and—in my world—a highly intimate form of communication, both with our fellow performers and the audience. Each of us arrives at rehearsal with particular ideas; each shares them with our colleagues and—in the absence of a conductor—each assumes a portion of the responsibility for the final crafting of what you hear as the finished product. It is this element of “conversation” in the music (and among the players) that serves to heighten the overall experience, especially given the necessary separation of the past year-plus. Welcome back—and enjoy the conversation!

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MICAH GANGWER,

CONCERTMASTER HHSO

Violinist Micah Gangwer has just completed his first year as Concertmaster of the HHSO. He joined the Charleston Symphony Orchestra as Assistant Concertmaster in the fall of 2012, a position he still holds.

Mr. Gangwer made his solo debut performing with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra when he was eleven years old, and throughout his childhood and college won several solo and concerto competitions. He has performed as a soloist with various professional and collegiate orchestras across America and has been showcased on public radio and television as a jazz, bluegrass, and classical violinist. Recent solo engagements include a performance of the Tan Dun Violin Concerto “The Love” with Symphony Orchestra Augusta, the Suite for Violin and Orchestra by William Grant Still with the South Carolina Philharmonic, and many solo appearances with the Charleston Symphony.

As a chamber musician, Mr. Gangwer has played in concerts across America and Europe including performances for ambassadors, royalty, and several heads of state. In 2003, Micah was a finalist in the internationally recognized Coleman Chamber Music Competition as a member of the Lennox Trio. He has participated and performed in many festivals and institutes including the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music, Salzburg Chamber Music Institute, and has performed, toured, and recorded for three summers as a member of the Echternach Festival Orchestra of Luxembourg.

Mr. Gangwer attended Miami University for his undergraduate degree in violin performance, and studied at the University of Oklahoma and the University of South Carolina for graduate school.

FRANCES HSIEH,

PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN HHSO

Raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Frances Hsieh began studying violin at age five with Dorothy Kitchen of the Duke University String School. Later as an A.J. Fletcher scholar at Duke University, she continued her studies with Eric Pritchard while earning dual degrees in Music and Biology. In 2005, Frances received her Masters for Violin Performance at the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Charles Castleman.

During the summers, Frances attended numerous prestigious summer music festivals including Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, Eastern Music Festival, Quartet Program, National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, AIMS music festival in Graz, Austria and received the Benenson Award to attend the Aspen Music Festival and Musicorda.

As an avid teacher, Frances enjoys giving back by instructing students privately at Ashley Hall’s Carolina Strings Academy. In 2014-15, Frances had the privilege of teaching violin and chamber music at Luzerne Music Center summer festival in New York.

Frances has performed with the North Carolina and Phoenix Symphonies and has won positions with the Colorado Music Festival, Richmond Symphony Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. She is currently Assistant Concertmaster of the Asheville Symphony and Principal 2nd of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra. Today, Frances continues her love of chamber music as a core member of Chamber Music Charleston, with which she has had the pleasure of performing for the second time at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in May 2017.

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LIZHOU LIU,

PRINCIPAL VIOLA HHSO

Lizhou Liu earned his B.A. degree from The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, and his Masters degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His prizes include first place in the 1988 SUNY Concerto Competition and the "Menuhin Prize" at the Portsmouth International Quartet Competition in 1982.

Mr. Liu has held positions as Assistant Professor of Viola at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music and served as principal viola with Beijing Chamber Orchestra and the Tchaikovsky Chamber Orchestra in New York.

Currently he is principal viola with the Savannah Philharmonic and the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra.

As a soloist, he premiered modern composer Chen Yi's viola concerto, “Xian Shi” with the Beijing Film Orchestra, the Central Opera Orchestra and the Central Philharmonic in China. He gave the American premier of "Xian Shi" with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory. The Boston Music Intelligencer wrote, "Soloist Lizhou Liu gave a powerful, gung-ho performance with brilliant execution of the many difficult passages and techniques, and gorgeous harmonics in the lyrical sub-theme... Liu shone through pure brute force, on top of his grand technique."

Other solo performances include "Don Quixote" with YoYo Ma and the Savannah Symphony in 2000 and Berlioz’ “Harold in Italy” with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra in 2002.

Mr. Liu is married to violist, Yvonne Johnson, and they have three children. For sixteen years he has operated BWL Music, a string instrument rental, sales and repair business. He enjoys fishing on his 16- foot boat and the occasional deep-sea trip. He also is a photographer, specializing in scenery and family portraits.

DANIEL MUMM,

CELLO ACTING

Cellist Daniel Mumm received a Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University and a Masters of Arts degree from the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University. Prior to that, he attended the pre-college program at Manhattan School of Music.

Daniel’s recent concert engagements have included a solo appearance with the Orchester der Kuenstuniversitaet Graz (Austria). Daniel has been a participant in numerous music festivals including Bowdoin International Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, and the Indiana University String Academy. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Mumm has performed in master classes for members of the Kronos, Guarneri, Borromeo, and Vermeer Quartets. Daniel has extensive experience with contemporary music, including performances of the works of Harry Partch featuring the composer’s original instruments. He is also an active studio musician and has recently recorded music for NFL films.

In addition to his career as a performer, Daniel is also a music educator. He has given sectionals for the Youth Orchestras of Essex County and has served as a chamber music coach for the New Jersey ASTA Chamber Music Institute. Currently Daniel is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Mason Gross school of the Arts at Rutgers University.

CHARLES MESSERSMITH,

PRINCIPAL CLARINET HHSO

Charles Messersmith began playing the clarinet at the age of eight. He attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and received a Bachelor of Music degree, studying with Franklin Cohen in 1991. He then went on to receive his Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music studying with David Breeden (San Francisco Symphony). After graduation, he became the Principal Clarinet of the Augusta Symphony and performed there for four years. Charles is Principal Clarinet for the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra. In 1998, he was appointed by national auditions to the Second Clarinet position with the Charleston Symphony, and in 2005 to the Principal Clarinet position.

Along with regular performances with the HHSO and CSO, he performs in Charleston with local, national, and internationally renowned chamber musicians, as well as for Piccolo Spoleto Festival programs in the spring. In the summer, he performs at the Wintergreen Music Festival in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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JACK WINEROCK Jack Winerock, a native of New York City, received undergraduate and master's degrees at the Juilliard School of Music and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. His teachers included Sascha Gorodnitzki, György Sándor, and Leon Fleisher. Currently Chancellor’s Club Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas School of Music, he was awarded the prestigious Kemper Teaching Award in 2003. In 2009, he was chosen Teacher of the Year by the National Federation of Music Clubs, and in 2010 he presented the Chopin Master Class at the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association) annual convention.

Winerock received Second Prize in the International Bach Competition, made his orchestral debut with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, and played his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. He has toured Europe, Asia, and South America as well as the United States. In 1986, he gave the first performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in the People's Republic of China, and in l990, he was appointed the first U.S. Visiting Professor at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. He is a longtime member of the International Institute for Young Musicians.

Winerock has achieved national and international acclaim as a performer, teacher, adjudicator, and lecturer. He currently performs solo recitals and presents numerous master classes in Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. His students have won prizes in national and international competitions, including the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the MTNA, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Johanna Hodges. They hold important faculty positions both in the United States as well as in conservatories in Europe and Asia. He is also Artistic Director of the International Institute for Young Musicians (IIYM) Piano Competition and Festival held every summer at the University of Kansas.

Winerock is known for his performances of early American piano music and has recorded the Three Keyboard Sonatas of Alexander Reinagle (teacher of George Washington’s children) for the Musical Heritage Society, which he played on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Broadwood Piano manufactured in the 1800’s.

Winerock was a member of the HHIPC’s Selection Jury in 2020.

This performance is made possible by a generous contribution from Mike and Mary Briggs.

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Jack Winerock Yankee Doodle And More: American Music from Colonial Times to the Middle of the 20th Century Monday, June 7 at 7:30 pm St. Luke’s Church Alexander Reinagle (American) Sonata No. 1 in D major, I. Allegro con brio Louis Moreau Gottschalk (American) Souvenir of Porto Rico, Op. 31 Edward McDowell (American) Scotch Poem, Op. 31, No. 2 Charles Griffes (American)

Sonata No. 1

INTERMISSION James Hewitt (American) Variations on Yankee Doodle "Blind Tom" Wiggins (American)

Battle of Manassas

R. Nathaniel Dett (American) Morning: Barcarolle (from “In the Bottoms” Suite) Vincent Persichetti (American)

Sonata No. 3, Op. 22

I am very excited to share with Hilton Head audiences music composed and performed in the United States over the past 200 years. The format will be a lecture-recital discussing composers, their audiences, and the settings where their music was performed.

Starting during the time of George Washington, I will present music that was played in homes as well as in concert halls and even on battlefields. Some of the works are fiendishly difficult, while others can be played by amateur music lovers.

If you want to listen to some of this music before the recital, composers will include Alexander Reinagle, Edward McDowell, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Nathaniel Dett, "Blind Tom" Wiggins, Charles Griffes, and Vincent Persichetti.

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CHAMBER MUSIC CHARLESTON Chamber Music Charleston (CMC) was founded in 2006 to enhance the quality of life in the Greater Charleston area through the performance, cultivation and promotion of classical chamber music of high artistic quality by musicians of the Lowcountry. CMC programs are developed to highlight the diversity, eclecticism and excitement possible in chamber music.

CMC was founded in 2006 with a five member advisory board and 13 core musicians who performed 15 concerts during the initial season. The majority of the performances were “House Concerts,” intimate evenings of chamber music in private homes of Downtown Charleston and Kiawah Island. Over the years CMC began presenting more concerts to meet the demand for their unique, informative, engaging presentations. Over its 15-year history, CMC has performed in theaters, churches, schools and art galleries throughout the greater Charleston area in addition to special performances for the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Happy New Year Charleston, MOJA Festival and North Charleston Arts Festival. In May 2013 CMC made their New York City debut performance at the historic Carnegie Hall, with a return performance in May 2017. Internationally, CMC has twice participated in the Musica en Segura Festival (Spain) and as part of the Forum Cultural Arts Series on St. Thomas (USVI).

The 2019-2020 season continued the tradition of House Concerts in addition to in-school performances, concerts at the Dock Street Theatre, a return to the Musica en Segura Festival, the launch of the new “Salon Series” at Charleston’s historic South Carolina Society Hall, and a special violin recital concert featuring legendary violinist Midori.

In its most recent season, CMC entertained over 5,400 audience members. Through its Classical Kids Concerts and educational outreach, annually CMC serves over 3,600 youth in the greater Charleston area. The children’s programs primarily reach children residing in the rural Johns Island area while the adult programs reach audiences from Charleston, Kiawah Island, Seabrook Island and Edisto Island. CMC has been nothing if not creative in selecting venues—they have even performed in an aquarium.

The HHIPC is thrilled to present its Lowcountry neighbor, Chamber Music Charleston, at BravoPiano! 2021.

This performance is made possible by a generous contribution from Joan and Bob Koenig.

Chamber Music Charleston: Women Of American Music Tuesday, June 8 at 3:00 pm • All Saints Episcopal Church Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (American/British) Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio, Op. 59, Book 1 (1905) Astor Piazzolla (Argentina)

Grand Tango for Piano and Cello (1982) INTERMISSION

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CHEE–HANG SEE, PIANO Hang-See is a prize-winning pianist who has been called “a cool and confident performer” by the Charleston Post and Courier. He has soloed with the Toa Payoh West Chinese Orchestra in Singapore, Bėla Bartók Orchestra in Perugia, Cleveland Institute of Music Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with Chamber Music Charleston, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, and broadcast on South Carolina Public Radio. He remains in high demand as soloist, chamber pianist, and composer in his native Singapore and all over the U.S. Chee-Hang is on the faculty at the Charleston Academy of Music.

His debut album “Violin Transcriptions”, featuring works by Rachmaninoff and Muczynski, was released in 2014.

FRANCES HSIEH, VIOLIN Raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Frances Hsieh began studying violin at age five with Dorothy Kitchen of the Duke University String School. Later as an A.J. Fletcher scholar at Duke University, she continued her studies with Eric Pritchard while earning dual degrees in Music and Biology. In 2005, Frances received her Master’s for Violin Performance at the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Charles Castleman.

During the summers, Frances attended numerous prestigious summer music festivals including Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, Eastern Music Festival, Quartet Program, National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, AIMS music festival in Graz, Austria and received the Benenson Award to attend the Aspen Music Festival and Musicorda.

As an avid teacher, Frances enjoys giving back by instructing students privately at Ashley Hall’s Carolina Strings Academy. In 2014-15, Frances had the privilege of teaching violin and chamber music at Luzerne Music Center summer festival in New York.

Frances has performed with the North Carolina and Phoenix Symphonies and has won positions with the Colorado Music Festival, Richmond Symphony Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. She is currently Assistant Concertmaster of the Asheville Symphony and Principal 2nd of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra. Today, Frances continues her love of chamber music as a core member of Chamber Music Charleston, with which she has had the pleasure of performing for the second time at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in May 2017.

TIMOTHY O’MALLEY, CELLO Timothy O’Malley was first introduced to the cello at the age of nine when he participated in a strings program in Tucson, Arizona. Since then, his studies have brought him across the United States and to Europe. While in high school he studied under Angelika May at the Academy for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna and he received his Bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Norman Fischer and Catherine Meints and his Master’s degree in Orchestral Performance from the Manhattan School of Music.

He is formerly co-principal cellist of the Hilton Head Orchestra, was a full-time core cellist of the Charleston Symphony, and is a member of Chamber Music Charleston. His Chamber Music Charleston performances have brought him overseas to the US Virgin Islands as well as Carnegie Hall.

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MARTIN LESCH Internationally acclaimed pianist Martin Lesch performs an eclectic mix of music from early stride piano to jazz renditions of the Beatles and Bob Marley with equal joy. He has been a staple of the southern regional music scene for over two decades. His Monday night concert series “A Journey Through Jazz” at Hilton Head's legendary Jazz Corner plays to sold out audiences weekly. Lesch recently released a CD entitled “Journey Through Jazz” featuring jazz from all time periods that charted on ITunes Jazz Charts.

Raised in New York City, Lesch’s mother convinced his father to spend his Christmas bonus on a piano, and Martin got the lessons he asked for on his fifth birthday. He studied with a NYU professor from an early age, graduating high school early to attend the Berklee College of Music. Lured by the active music scene for working players, he transplanted to the Southeast touring nationally and internationally with various artists and sharing the stage with numerous Grammy winners for a couple of decades. A meeting with the Jazz Corner’s founder, Bob Marsteller, led to a job offer at a time when life on the road had lost some of its allure.

Lesch now has the time to indulge his passion for music education. He works with the nonprofit Junior Jazz Foundation which promotes Jazz education for the next young generation of musicians. What started with nine students, has grown in ten years to over 100. You may have heard the Junior Jazz All Stars perform at the HHSO’s performance space, SoundWaves.

Martin has become an active champion for the arts generally in our community—as a board member of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the Hilton Head Arts Council and the HHI Crescendo Festival—proposing in a TEDx talk that with “more community support and institutional structure”, the Lowcountry could become an arts destination.

This performance is made possible by a generous contribution from Diana Riggle.

Martin Lesch and Friends: Sing Out!

Tuesday, June 8 at 7:30 pm • Hilton Head Beach and Tennis Resort

For years I stuck to the more traditional roads of Jazz, but over time it grew on me that I needed to be more inclusive. I grew up around a lot of different cultures and types of music and I wanted to speak to a younger generation and hopefully inspire more of them to embrace jazz as listeners and musicians. So, as I started to perform more contemporary popular music, I realized it freed me from the constraints of being married to a genre. At the same time, I’ve tried to apply the great improvisational and free elements of Jazz to everything I perform.

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PLAYING WITH MARTIN: Guitarist Jackson Evans is a staple of the Lowcountry jazz community. He is known for his partnership with bassist and singer Maggie Evans and leading his own trio, but can also be heard with the Jody Espina Trio, and the Martin Lesch band. His style is energetic, rhythmic, and draws deeply from the jazz tradition while maintaining a quirky individualism culled from the influence of other music. When not performing, Jackson is a representative for Benedetto Guitars, is an avid bicycle racer, and loves to spend time with his rescue dog, Carter.

Robert Britton Saunders is a Savannah native and a rising drummer on the local scene. He attended Savannah Chatham County Public schools graduating from Windsor Forest High School. After that, he attended Armstrong State University as a student of Dr. Stephen Primatic. He has played with local jazz hero’s such as Teddy Adams, Ben Tucker, Howard Paul, Huxie Scott, and Gina Renee.

He is also a member of The Eric Jones Trio and the Isaac Smith band.

Marc Chesanow holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Memphis in addition to a Bachelor’s Degree from the Eastman School of Music in Double Bass performance. Currently residing in Savannah, Georgia, Marc can be heard regularly performing with the Savannah Philharmonic and The Hilton Head Symphony as well as regular performances at jazz venues such as the Good Times Jazz Bar and The Jazz Corner. Marc was formerly on the faculty of Coastal Carolina University and was the program coordinator for music at Southeastern Community College.

In 1993, Marc was awarded a Grammy award in the Student Jazz/Big Band category. Marc has performed with artists Tom Scott, Wycliffe Gordon, Rod Stewart, Bernadette Peters, Isaac Hayes, Maureen McGovern, Eddy Arnold, the Marvelettes, Joel Grey, Tommy Tedesco, The Moody Blues and many others.

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SULLIVAN FORTNER For the past decade, Sullivan Fortner has been stretching deep-rooted talents as a pianist, composer, band leader and uncompromising individualist. The Grammy Award-winning artist received international praise as both key player and producer for his collaborative work on The Window (Mack Avenue, 2018), alongside multi-Grammy winner, vocalist-composer Cécile McLorin Salvant. As a solo leader, he has released Moments Preserved (Decca, 2018) and Aria (Impulse!, 2015) to critical acclaim, and he’s only getting started. This past year, Fortner earned recognition in multiple DownBeat Critics Poll categories, winning first place in Rising Star Piano and Rising Star Jazz Artist.

In addition to associations with such diverse voices as Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Diane Reeves, Etienne Charles and John Scofield, Fortner’s frequent and longtime collaborators have included Ambrose Akinmusire, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Stefon Harris, Kassa Overall, Tivon Pennicott, Pete Bernstein, Nicholas Payton, Billy Hart, Gary Bartz, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Fred Hersch and the recently departed Roy Hargrove. The highly-sought improviser has performed across the country and throughout the world at such cultural institutions as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Standard, Smalls Jazz Club and New Orleans clubs as well as celebrated festivals, including at Newport, Monterey, Discover, Tri-C and Gillmore Keyboard, among others. In 2019, he brought his band to the historic Village Vanguard for a week-long engagement as a leader. Fortner’s notable studio contributions include work on Etienne Charles’s Kaiso (Culture Shock, 2011), Donald Harrison’s Quantum Leap (FOMP, 2010), and Theo Croker’s The Fundamentals (Left Sided Music, 2007).

Playing solo or leading an orchestra, Fortner engages harmony and rhythmic ideas through curiosity and clarity. Within phrases, he finds universes, and listeners often hear how he's moved by each note he explores. Coming up in New Orleans, Fortner began playing piano at age 7, following a storied lineage of improvisers, masters of time and every iteration of the blues. He earned his Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory and Master of Music in Jazz Performance from Manhattan School of Music (MSM). A champion of mentorship, Fortner has offered masterclasses at MSM, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Purdue University, Lafayette Summer Music Workshop, Belmont University and Oberlin Conservatory where he held a faculty position.

Pulling distinct elements from different eras, Fortner’s artistry preserves the tradition and evolves the sound. He seeks connections among different musical styles that are at once deeply soulful and wildly inventive. Both his works and his insights have been featured in culturally iconic publications, from The New York Times to The Root. Accolades include 2015 winner of the Cole Porter Fellowship by the American Pianists Association, Leonore Annenberg Arts Fellowship and the 2016 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists.

Sullivan Fortner With Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant Jazz — A Quintessential American Art Form Wednesday, June 9 at 7:30 pm Hilton Head Beach and Tennis Resort

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CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT The world first learned of the incredible vocal artistry of Cécile McLorin Salvant when she won the prestigious 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. In just under the span of a decade she has evolved from a darling of jazz critics and fans, to a multiGrammy® Award winner, to a prescient and fearless voice in music today.

Since 2010, McLorin Salvant has soared to the top of the music world, garnering praise and gathering awards. “She has poise, elegance, soul, humor, sensuality, power, virtuosity, range, insight, intelligence, depth and grace,” announced Wynton Marsalis. “You get a singer like this once in a generation or two.” She has been honored with top spots in DownBeat’s critic’s polls in the categories of “Jazz Album of the Year” and “Top Female Vocalist.” NPR Music has awarded her “Best Jazz Vocal Album of the Year” and “Best Jazz Vocalist.” Her debut album, WomanChild (2013), received a Grammy® nomination. And her following releases, For One to Love (2015), Dreams and Daggers (2017), and The Window (2018) all won Grammy® Awards for “Best Jazz Vocal Album.”

Her most recent project, Ogresse, is a melting pot of musical theatre and mythical storytelling—a musical narrative with genre-defying orchestration blending jazz, blue-grass, folk rhythms and chanson accents. This project is a fairytale-like musical experience, a modern-day secular cantata that highlights not only her voice, but her theatricality, and her brilliance as a songwriter as well as a storyteller.

Her gifts as an artist are rooted in her intensive study of the history of American Music and her uncanny ability to curate its treasures for her audience. Her albums are explorations of the immense repository of experience and feeling that abound in popular song.

She understands the special role of the musician to find and share the emotions and messages in music that speak to our past, present and future. “I am not interested in the idea of relevance,” she explains. “I am interested in the idea of presence. I want to communicate across time, through time, play with time.”

Onstage, her persona is often compared to that of an actress. But, as McLorin Salvant notes, “Jazz would not be what it is without its theatrical origins, vaudeville, and minstrel shows.” Through her selection of repertory and brilliant interpretations, she “plays with time,” making the musical past speak to our contemporary world. Her unflinching performance of songs from the minstrel tradition, such as Bert William’s “Nobody,” challenge us to think harder about race in America today. Her blues numbers are bawdy and vibrant, melancholic and forlorn, insistent and emancipatory. She sings of the ecstasy and agony of love, of jubilation and dejection, of desire and being desired, of fearlessness and fragility.” I want to get as close to the center of the song as I can,” McLorin Salvant explains. “When I find something beautiful and touching, I try to get close to it and share that with the audience.” Immersed in the song and yet completely in control, McLorin Salvant brings her immense personality to the music—daring, witty, playful, honest, and mischievous.

This performance is made possible by a generous contribution from Ryan Huff and Mila Sheeline.

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LAVON STEVENS Lavon Stevens is an acclaimed pianist, singer, song writer and producer. Local audiences know him as a multi-keyboard talent whose music ranges from warm and sensuous to infectiously energetic. His extensive repertoire, heavily influenced by his southern roots, encompasses soulful jazz, blues, contemporary, and gospel.

A native of Thunderbolt, Georgia, Lavon grew up on gospel music. He began his musical studies at the age of seven with the violin. He was an inaugural member of The Savannah Youth Orchestra circa 1970. By 13, he was singing and playing piano across the southeast with local bands. He studied piano and voice at Dekalb College (now Perimeter College) in Atlanta (1979 – 1983). He then performed with various groups nationally for years before returning to the Lowcountry.

Lavon’s recordings reflect his versatility as an artist, his musicality and imagination.

Traveling Music is a collection of jazz standards recorded live with vocalist Louise Spencer. I See Love is a compilation of original material. A gospel CD titled The Last Mile was recorded with the gospel group The Voices of El Shaddei. He is affiliated with BMI as a publisher/songwriter.

Mr. Stevens is a passionate advocate for the native island community, serving as a Board Member on the Town’s Gullah-Geechee Cultural Preservation Task Force. The GullahGeechee people are descendants of Africans who were first enslaved in the late 1600’s on the rice, indigo and Sea Island cotton plantations of the lower Atlantic coast. The ancestors of the Gullah Geechee people brought with them a rich heritage of African cultural traditions in art, food and music. Once here, their music evolved out of the tough conditions that characterized their lives. The influence and evolution of musical forms that arose out of Gullah music can be heard in many musical genres including spirituals and gospel music, ragtime, rhythm and blues, soul, jazz and even hip hop. There is no better person than Lavon Stevens to take us on this important and uniquely American musical journey.

This performance was made possible by a generous contribution from the Strauch Family.

Lavon Stevens & Compnay: Gullah Geechee Musical Influences Friday, June 11 at 7:30 pm • Lowcountry Presbyterian Church

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African influences have helped shape American music for almost two centuries. Many artists have approached different genres with their own unique perspective based on their level of formal training and their God-given talent. We will explore the impact of Gullah culture on music stylings. The Gullah Geechee Culture has touched every American art form including the visual arts, architecture, cuisine, and music. The audience can expect to hear traditional arrangements of Jazz, Gospel, and Blues along with improvisations inspired by the energy of the moment. This freestyle approach coupled with a basic foundational structure allows for some very interesting interpretations of the music in the moment— which means that you may never hear these songs played the same way in another setting.

We will present a historical timeline through the music commencing with an overture that sets up the many styles which we will explore. We will start with some early forms of Blues and Spirituals and show the progression of the music into what we have today in Jazz and Gospel. What makes this journey so unique is the fusion of genres, the freedom of the performers, and the inspiration of the audience.

It is our hope that you will leave energized and inspired with an appreciation for how we all are connected through the power of music—and with a deeper understanding of the Gullah Geechee culture which illustrates so well that we are all a part of the history of the moment, a moment that will live on for many generations to come.

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PRISCILLA ALBERGOTTIE, VOCALS Priscilla Albergottie is a sophisticated, soulful and chilling vocalist/pianist, who performs in gospel, pop, country, R&B, and jazz music in equilibrium. She grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina and began singing at the age of five in her father’s church. At an early age, Albergottie was already familiar with such iconic vocalists as Mahalia Jackson and Sarah Vaughn. She holds a master’s degree and certification in Education Administration.

Priscilla is the featured vocalist for the 17-piece Savannah Jazz Orchestra, which has held up the legacy of jazz for 39 years in our neighbor, “The Hostess City of the South.”

She can be heard on the group’s live recording Satin Doll, The Music of Duke Ellington and Johnny Mercer. Albergottie has also performed with superb jazz musicians such as trombonist Teddy Adams, bassist Ben Tucker, Eric Jones, and many other icons.

Albergottie has secured numerous showcase performances in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart, Germany as well as a plethora of performances in the United States. She released her debut demo, One Star in the Night, and has performed live before Fergie, the Dutchess of Wales. Priscilla has a genuine love for music from all genres.

DR. TERRY GRANT-ROBINSON, VOCALS Dr. Grant is a fifth generation native of Hilton Head Island. She received a B.A. in Music from South Carolina State University, a Masters Degree in jazz performance from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, and an Educational Specialist degree and Ed.D. in advanced studies in Educational Leadership from South Carolina State University. She has taken music courses at Towson State University, the University of Nebraska, the University of South Carolina and Converse College. An interest in acting began in 1994 when she performed with the renowned Hallelujah Singers for the Forest Gump movie soundtrack.

She has also performed the opening for The Reverend Luther Barnes in Concert, an executive producer of gospel music who has released over twenty-eight CDs. Dr. Grant holds a South Carolina Teaching license in Music Education, Elementary and Secondary Principal and Superintendent. She has been teaching for ten years, at Hilton Head Elementary School and previously at Beaufort Elementary School. She was the Assistant Principal at Hardeeville Elementary school for three years and the Jasper County School District PBIS Coach for two years.

In addition, Dr. Grant is a certified FAA Remote Pilot and a Certified Teacher Cadet Instructor. Currently, she is a student at Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University majoring in Unmanned Systems.

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AARON JENNINGS, DRUMS Jazz drummer and percussionist Aaron Jennings discovered his passion for music playing in church in his hometown of Savannah, Georgia. He attended the prestigious Savannah Arts Academy of Visual and Performing Arts where his love for jazz was cultivated.

Throughout high school, Jennings performed in various ensembles including the Savannah Arts Academy Skylight Jazz ensemble, wind symphony, orchestra and pit orchestra.

Jennings has found a steady stream of work as a theater musician. His long list of shows already include: Spring Awakening, Evil Dead: The Musical, Grey Gardens, Songs for a New World, Aida, and A Christmas Carol.

In January 2020 Aaron performed at the 62nd annual Grammy Nominee Celebration in New York City. He has made notable appearances at major jazz festivals including the 2012 Savannah Jazz Festival with the Skylight Jazz Ensemble and at the 2015 Jacksonville Jazz Festival where he shared the stage with members of the Jacksonville University Jazz Faculty. Throughout his time at New York University, Aaron made several appearances at the Blue Note with NYU jazz ensembles. Jennings is also featured in the method book entitled “Jazz Brushes for the Modern Drummer” by Grammy award-winning jazz drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. Jennings has a B.M in Jazz and Commercial Music from Jacksonville University where he studied with Tony Steve, Rick Kirkland (Ray Charles), and John Ricci. Aaron has also studied with Sean Bolden (Estelle), Billy Drummond, John Hadfield, and Ulysses Owens Jr. He recently received his M.M in Jazz Studies at New York University and is now working as the community liaison and program assistant for the Savannah Music Festival Jazz Academy.

DELBERT FELIX, BASS Delbert Felix is the son of Wesley and the late Ann Felix. He is a native of Frogmore on St. Helena Island, SC. His first influence in music was his father, who was the band director at St. Helena High School. At the age of eight he received a bass guitar from Jonathan Francis, developing a love for the instrument. In high school his influences were Earl Davis, John Ferguson, Steve Best, Nate Drake, and later Bill Barnwell, who introduced him to Jazz.

Delbert attended the Berklee School of Music and later joined the Navy Music program where he went on to become Bass Instructor at the Armed Forces School of Music.

Delbert was the original bassist in the Branford Marsalis quartet. He has performed with Lavon Stevens, Teddy Adams, Freddie Hubbard, Lou Rawls, Freddie Cole, Sting, Joe Henderson, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton, Ellis, Jason and Delfeayo Marsalis. Delbert has traveled and performed extensively throughout the world, and has made numerous appearances on television, including, the Bryant Gumbel NBC Early Morning Show. He currently works as a freelance musician on the east coast and resides on Hilton Head Island.

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{BEYOND THE WAVES} ARTS, CULTURE & HISTORY

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With some of the finest art galleries, live music venues, and dance and theater productions happening year-round, Hilton Head Island’s arts and culture scene is second to none.

Browse the Coastal Discovery Museum or Heritage Library and take a step back in time, discovering the Lowcountry’s fascinating history. No matter which artistic pursuit or cultural experience you choose, we can guarantee you’ll be entertained!

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BRAVO FESTIVAL FINALE

CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF THE AMERICAS Saturday June 12, 2021 • 7:30 pm First Presbyterian Church

PROGRAM REED TETZLOFF Charles Griffes Charles Ives

The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan (1912/1915) Sonata No. 2 (“Concord”) (1920/1947) II. Hawthorne III. the Alcotts

Frederic Rzewski North American Ballads, IV. WInnsboro Cotton Mills Blues (1979)

INTERMISSION MICHELLE CANN Florence Price George Gershwin

Sonata in E minor (1932) Rhapsody in Blue (1924)

The finale is made possible by a generous contribution from the Strauch Family.

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REED TETZLOFF The American pianist Reed Tetzloff is one of the brightest stars of a new generation of musicians. He enthralls audiences with his “magical tone” (The Cincinnati Enquirer) and “ebullient” virtuosity (Gramophone Magazine).

Reed has excited audiences in tours of China, Europe, and the United States.

He made his Lincoln Center concerto debut with the Mannes Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall, and his New York solo recital debut at Merkin Hall. He has performed concerti with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra, among many others. He gives annual multi-city recital tours in Belgium, playing to critical acclaim at major venues including De Singel (Antwerp), Flagey (Brussels), the Miry Concertzaal (Ghent), and the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth (Waterloo).

Festival appearances have included the Northern Lights Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, and repeat engagements with the Beijing International Music Festival and Academy, the International Keyboard Institute and Festival, Mannes Sounds Festival, and the Young Artist World Piano Festival.

An insightful proponent of complex and often neglected repertoire, including that of the American canon, Reed Tetzloff is constantly engaging his listeners’ curiosity and broadening their horizons. His presentation of Charles Ives’ masterpiece, the ‘Concord’ Sonata, was featured in a recent season of the Mannes Sounds Festival, and the great American pianist Ursula Oppens described his interpretation as “One of the best I have ever heard of the piece,” hailing its “utter beauty and wild intensity.”

At the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, Reed Tetzloff was named one of twelve semi-finalists. His performances were widely acclaimed in Russian media, which dubbed him “the lyric hero of the competition,” and were noted by music connoisseurs across the globe. He has won prizes from international competitions including the Cincinnati World Piano Competition, the Cleveland International Piano Competition, and the Tbilisi International Piano Competition. Reed competed in Hilton Head in 2016.

Tetzloff has received career grants from Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi and from the Center for Musical Excellence (CME). His debut solo album, Sounds of Transcendence, was sponsored by CME and is available on the Romeo Records label. Reviewing the album, Patrick Rucker of Gramophone Magazine praised his version of Charles Griffes’ Piano Sonata as “ranking easily with the recordings of Garrick Ohlsson and Stephen Beus as the finest available,” in addition to extolling his “refined touch,” “rhetorical aptness,” and “fervent rapture” in music of Franck and Scriabin.

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tetzloff began his studies with Dr. Paul Wirth. He went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Mannes College in New York, studying at the legendary Upper West Side campus with Piano Department Chair Pavlina Dokovska. Within his first year and a half of undergraduate study, he had won the school’s two largest awards: the Concerto Competition and the Nadia Reisenberg Competition.

Reed Tetzloff is an Artist-in-Residence with The Drozdoff Society, and has a residency in the Village Meridian Series in New York City, both as a soloist and a chamber musician.

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MICHELLE CANN Concert pianist Michelle Cann is a young artist committed to performing and teaching a wide range of repertoire. She made her orchestral debut at age fourteen and has since performed with various ensembles including the Florida Orchestra, the New Jersey, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Sphinx Symphony Orchestras. She has appeared as guest soloist with the Knoxville Symphony and The Dream Unfinished Orchestra and performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra in its debut of Florence Price’s Concerto in One Movement in February, 2021.

Ms. Cann regularly appears in recital and as a chamber musician throughout the U.S., China, and South Korea. Notable venues include the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and the Bermuda Festival. Recently, she performed with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in its Green Umbrella series at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and again at the Barbican in London.

Ms. Cann has won top prizes in state, national, and international competitions including the International Russian Music Piano Competition, the Blount Slawson Young Artists Competition, and the Wideman International Piano Competition. In 2019 she served as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s MAC Music Innovator in recognition of her role as an African-American classical musician who embodies artistry, innovation, and a commitment to education and community engagement.

Ms. Cann has appeared as cohost and collaborative pianist with NPR’s From The Top and has been featured on WRTI and WHYY-TV in Philadelphia. Her summer festival appearances include the Taos Chamber Music Festival, Yellow Barn, Perlman Music Program, and Pianofest in the Hamptons, where she served as artist in residence.

Ms. Cann has served as the director of two children’s choruses in the El Sistema-inspired program Play On Philly and was among the first class of Community Artist fellows at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Ms. Cann holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Paul Schenly and Daniel Shapiro, and an Artist’s Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Robert McDonald.

Ms. Cann served on the faculty of the Sphinx Performance Academy during their inaugural year at the Juilliard School and performed in the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra during its 23rd competition. She joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2020, holding the Eleanor Sokoloff Chair in Piano Studies.

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SUSTAINING THE COMPETITION GOLD SPONSORS Custom Audio Video • Rice Music House • Steinway & Sons Savannah/ Hilton Head International Airport

SILVER SPONSORS Correll Insurance Group • Hilton Head Lexus • Herrin Piano • The Great Frame Up Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce

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88 KEY SOCIETY The 88 Key Society is limited to a maximum of 88 members, each of whom “owns” one or more specific keys on the “HHIPC piano.” One becomes a member of this exclusive group with an annual donation of $500 per key. Members enjoy special recognition and benefits including: • Their name on their key(s) of the 88 Keys Society keyboard displayed at all HHIPC and HHSO events throughout the concert season • Preferred seating for HHIPC events • Listing in the HHIPC program book and on the HHIPC and HHSO websites • Invitations to exclusive 88 Keys Society special events held throughout the year.

88 KEY SOCIETY MEMBERS 2021: Chris and Mary Albright

Carol and Frederick Hack

Mary Ann and Terry Putnam

Dede Bethke

Sharon and Gordon Hassing

Mona and Tim Ridge

Darle and Bob Booher

HHSO Musicians

Nina and Stewart Rodman

Peggy Ashworth

Estie and Dominick Bonanno

Susan and Michael Harter Karin Haupstein

Nancy and Dave Borghesi

Mila Sheeline and Ryan Huff

Mary and Mike Briggs

Laura and Bret Jacobowitz

Michael Braz

Ginger and Mike Caporal

Heather and Bob Cherichella

David Coquillette In honor of the Thornbury Family Clair and Ted Craver

Joan and Charles Dattelbaum Linda and Bill DeArment Sandy and Ralph Drayer Eileen and Jerry Durkin

Linda and Charles Eberly Karen and Buck Edwards Patty and Dave Ekedahl Tricia and Jay Elliot Sally Evans

Cary and Peter Fleming

Mary Ann and John Goodrich Debby Graves Kathy Grote

Lynn Gustafson

Mona and Joe Huff

Marianne and George Krall

Sylvia Richards Diana Riggle

Dr. George Constant Sakakini

Frances and Charles Sampson Anne Senf In memory of Brad Jacobs

Christine and Juan LaCerda

Patricia and Charles Sinatra

Darnell and Kennon Lattal

Myla Lerner and Larry Kramer

Barbara Sorkin In memory of Michael Sorkin

Clare and Jim Mackie

Bill and Judy Thorpe

Carol and Dick McCusker

Elizabeth and John Vinton

Nancy Minor

Jim Way

Carol and John Lang

Miyoko Lotto

Jeanne and Joe Maguire

Mieke and Hendrik Smit

Lorene Thornbury Carol Tucker

Evelyn McNair

Connie and Jerry Voight

Peggi Moon

Florence and James Willard

Marty and Jim Neumeister

Julie Williams In memory of Henry J. Williams

Susan Parrish In memory of Ed Parrish

Barbara Wolf In memory of Michael Wolf

Jane and Dr. William Murray Mary Noonan

Mary Princing

Lois Wilson

Rhetta and Buzz Yount Kathy and Bill Zurilla

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PAY FOR A PIPER Our fabulous HHSO musicians are an “instrumental” part of all HHIPC events as they accompany the artists’ finale performances. “Pay for a Piper” offers HHIPC supporters the chance to salute their favorite instruments and instrumentalists - with a $500 contribution to “Pay for the Piper.” We proudly present 2021’s Piper Patrons.

Vie for a Violin Mona and Joe Huff Mila Sheeline and Ryan Huff Value a Viola Linda and Ray Moloney Choose a Cello Darnell and Kennon Lattal Diana Riggle Bank on a Bass Judy and Bill Thorpe Heather and Bob Cherichella

Favor a Flute Joan and Charles Dattelbaum Mona and Joe Huff Opt for an Oboe Stan and Sharon Potter Mary Princing Bill and Kathy Zurilla

Highlight a Horn Barbara Holmes Target a Trumpet Peggy Ashworth Tap into Timpani Sandy and Ralph Drayer

Clamor for a Clarinet Laura and Bret Jacobowitz Book a Bassoon Michael and Susan Harter

Have a Harp Susan and Ed Parrish Mary Princing Tout a Tuba Karen and Alan Jordan

SPECIAL THANKS TO THOSE WHO MAKE THIS ALL POSSIBLE Accurate Lithograph and Printing

Jazz Corner

Bill Gwynne — Audio Recording

Jeff Herrin — Piano Technician

Chris and Mary Albright — Host Family

Jim Way

All Saints Episcopal Church

Local Life

Bluffton and Hilton Head Sun

Lowcountry Presbyterian Church

Bradley Fuller — South Carolina Public Radio

Mark Gilmour — Video Recording Engineer

Charles Grace — Graphic Designer

Michelle Pearson — Interior Motives

Custom Audio Video Staff

Carlton Pitts

First Presbyterian Church

MobileCause

Hilton Head Beach and Tennis Resort

St. Luke’s Church

Hilton Head Monthly

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DONORS GIFT OF $15,000 The Strauch Family GIFTS OF $5000 - $14999 Mary and Mike Briggs Joan and Charles Dattelbaum Ryan Huff and Mila Sheeline Mary Ann and Tarrant Putnam Diana Riggle GIFTS OF $2000 - $4999 Heather and Bob Cherichella Mary Lamb Cowan Joe and Mona Huff Bret and Laura Jacobowitz Mary Princing Judy and Bill Thorpe GIFTS OF $1000 - $1999 Peggy Ashworth Dede Bethke Ted and Clair Craver Ralph and Sandy Drayer Jay and Trish Elliott Debbie Graves Michael and Susan Harter Carol and Frederick Hack Joan and Bob Koenig Darnell and Kennon Lattal Linda and Ray Moloney Jim and Marty Neumeister Sylvia Richards Dr. George Constant Sakakini Caroline Tucker Jerry and Connie Voight Jim and Florence Willard Bill and Kathy Zurilla GIFTS OF $500 - $999 Estie and Dom Bonanno Bob and Darle Booher David and Nancy Borghesi Michael Braz Dan and Betsy Brown Michael and Ginger Caporal David Coquilette In honor of the Thornbury Family Bill and Linda DeArment Eileen and Jerry Durkin Chuck and Linda Eberly Buck and Karen Edwards Patty and Dave Ekedahl Sally Evans Peter and Cary Fleming Mary Ann and John Goodrich Kathleen Grote Lynn Gustafson Gordon and Sharon Hassing Karin Haupstein Barbara Holmes George and Marianne Krall Juan and Christine Lacerda John and Carol Lang

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Miyoko N. Lotto Myla Lerner and Larry Kramer Clare and Jim Mackie Jean and Joe Maguire Carol and Dick McCusker Evelyn McNair Nancy Minor Peggi Moon Charlie and Carol Moore William and Jane Murray Mary Noonan Susan Parrish In memory of Ed Parrish Stan and Sharon Potter Tim and Mona Ridge Nina and Stewart Rodman Frances and Charles Sampson Anne Senf In memory of Brad Jacobs Charles and Patricia Sinatra Hendrik and Mieke Smit Barbara Sorkin In memory of Michael Sorkin Lorene Thornbury John and Elizabeth Vinton Jim Way Julie Williams Lois Wilson Barbara Wolf In memory of Michael Wolf Buzz and Rhetta Yount GIFTS OF $100 - $499 Anonymous Kathy and Dave Alven Alan Bise Judy and Stan Bluestone Barbara Butler Kathy and Wayne Corley Beth and Jeff Corry Connie Davidson Martha Lou Davis Linda DeLuca Lou and Morris Drucker Janet England-Bender Peter Forbes Bobbi and Tom Fox Pat and Jill Graybeal Carol Gyllenhoff Gail Kaess Lavonne Hales Terri and Brian Haley Kurt And Linda Hanaway Ted Haslam Noel and Angela Horne Lois Hoyt-Berry Ann and Bill Huff Jean and Bob Huff Ford and Patsy Hutchinson Richard Johnson Pam and Roger Kahn In honor of Mona Huff Pat Kenworthy

Bob Kruppa Barbara Loots Nancy LoPresti Ingrid Low In memory of Gerry Low Laura Marks Bob and Eloise Mason Joy McNeill Jeffrie and Louis Natale David and Janine Nelson Harwood and Barbara Nichols J.P. and Mary Parekh John and Beverly Parschauer Carolyn Patterson Jan and Bill Raisch Connie Randall Kate and Kip Sheeline Jill Schiffman Alice Schulte Regina Silletti William Sutton Debbie Wenner-Waterman James Williams Nancy Williams Randi Wolfe GIFTS UP TO $99 Anonymous Bob and Shirley Alberti Joel Aronson Peggy and Vic Arrington Michelle Audet Bob and Sally Berman Deborah Burling Don and Ginny Castro Kenneth Eickhoff Jacqueline Fesq Maureen Fowler Pamela Gray Joyce Goldklang and Jay Diamond Cynthia and George Gorski-Popiel Sam Handley Joanne Hom Gayle Lang Lucia Mueller Deborah Quarry Kasten Carol Liff Christa Mondoro Sharon Nowak Patricia O’Dwyer Janet and Grey Palmer Sarah Patton Betsy Pehrson Lucia Pirisi-Creek Kathy Quirk John Richardson Leslie Samuel Alexandra Skevington Nancy Stermer Carol Sussman Ruth Tebrake Cynthia Walker WWW.HHIPC.ORG

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Robert Koenig

Carol Barker

Barbara Lagorio

Sherman Barker

Sue Lievense

Janet England Bender

Lynne Lotz

Dede Bethke

Blaine Lotz

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Nancy Minor

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Connie Davidson

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Jim Neumeister

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Mickey Graham

Louise Rose

Lynn Halpin

Julie Scovel

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Tim Henderson

Judy Walsh

Raymond Hickey

Megan Sisson

Candi Hough

Bill Zurilla

Lois Hoyt-Berry

Kathy Zurilla

BRAVO PIANO! FESTIVAL COMMITTEE Director – Mona Huff

Production – Joe Huff, Scott Camp

Assistant to Director – Julie Williams

Social Media – Bob Koenig

Ambassador Program – Jeanne Maguire

Tickets and Merchandise Sales – Lynn Gustafson

Grants/Special Projects – Jim Neumeister Hospitality – Sue Blake, Eileen Durkin Host Families – Barbara Holmes, Peggi Moon

Transportation – Mike Caporal Volunteers – Bill and Kathy Zurilla Member-at-Large – Carol Liff

Musical Feast – Mary Briggs, Joan Dattelbaum, Eileen Durkin, Bob Koenig, Peggi Moon, Mary Princing

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