Chamber Music Festival Program 2024

DURANGO CHAMBER

Presented by

June 10-14 | 12:15pm

MONDAY, JUNE 10 | 12:15pm

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church | 910 E. 3rd Ave., Durango

MOSTLY MOZART

String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 458, Wolfgang Amadeus “The Hunt” (1784) Mozart (1756-1791)

I. Allegro vivace assai

II. Menuetto and Trio: Moderato

III. Adagio

IV. Allegro assai

Richard Silvers & Tennille Taylor, violins

Lauren Avery, viola; Katherine Jetter, cello

TUESDAY, JUNE 11 | 12:15pm

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church | 910 E. 3rd Ave., Durango

LYRICAL AND ROMANTIC

“Limerock” arranged for Two Violins Traditional by Mark O’Connor and Edgar Meyer

Lauren Avery & Molly Jensen, violins

Gavotte No. 2, Op. 23 (1879) David Popper (1843-1913)

Katherine Jetter, cello

Lisa Campi Walters, piano

Suite for Violin and Piano (1943) William Grant Still

I. African Dancer (1895-1978)

II. Mother and Child

Lauren Avery, violin

Lisa Campi Walters, piano

Oblivion for Piano Trio (1982) Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Molly Jensen, violin

Katherine Jetter, cello

Amelia Barrett, piano

Romance for Violin and Piano, Amy Marcy Beach Op. 23 (1893) (1867-1944)

Richard Silvers, violin

Holly Quist, piano

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 | 12:15pm

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church | 910 E. 3rd Ave., Durango

PERCUSSION AND PIANO

Sabre Dance from Gayane Aram Khachaturian (arr. Anderson & Roe) (1903-1978)

Mika Inouye and Sarah Inouye Mano, piano four hands

Ballet from Orphee et Eurydice Christoph Willibald Gluck (arr. Anderson & Roe) (1714-1787)

Mika Inouye and Sarah Inouye Mano, piano four hands

Libertango (1974) Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Lisa Campi Walters, Mika Inouye, and Sarah Inouye Mano, piano six hands

Waltz from Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Sergei Rachmaninoff) (1840-1893)

Kristen Folden and Holly Quist, piano four hands

Le bal (Galop) from Jeux d’enfants, Georges Bizet Op. 22 (1838-1875)

Kristen Folden and Holly Quist, piano four hands

Orff Percussion Ensemble Performance

Orff Ensemble Performers:

Hannah Britt

Amy Barrett

Mika Inouye

Sarah Inouye Mano

Katie Fetz

Virginia Weaver

4CMTA /SJS Student Interns:

Ayumi Lambert

Rei Rasmussen

The American Orff-Schulwerk Association is a professional organization of educators dedicated to the creative music and movement approach developed by Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman. The Four Corners Orff Chapter works to cultivate inspired, innovative, and responsive music educators in the Four Corners Area. Learn more at fourcornersorff.org/about.

THURSDAY, JUNE 13 | 12:15pm

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church | 910 E. 3rd Ave., Durango

FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL TRIO

Rochelle Mann, flute

Susan Doering, violin

Dieter Wulfhorst, cello

Sonata No. 1 in G Major Domenico Gallo (1730-1768)

The Boston Wonder (1990) Peter Schickele (1935-2024)

Pets Will Play. . .When the Family’s Nancy Lau Away

Pets Will Play

Bed-Hop Bop

Cat Nap

Chipper’s Chirp

Goldfish Waltz

Fast Harry Turtle Trot

The Pets Party

The Party’s Over The Family Returns

Aria sopra la Bergamasca (1642) Marco Uccellini (1603-1680)

FRIDAY, JUNE 14 | 12:15pm & 2:30pm Roshong Recital Hall, Fort Lewis College

12:15pm FINAL RECITAL: Durango Chamber Music Academy & Discovering Music Program

2:30pm FINAL RECITAL: Piano Academy at Fort Lewis College

GUEST ARTISTS

Lauren Avery has been concertmaster of the San Juan Symphony since 2019. Prior to moving to Durango, she performed regularly with the Louisville Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Berkeley Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, and many other ensembles in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Munich, Germany. Highlights of her varied career include touring in Muscat, Oman with the Castleton Festival’s production of La Bohème, summers spent with the Cabrillo Festival, Spoleto USA, and the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, and serving as Guest Concertmaster of El Paso Opera. Lauren has music and biology degrees from Vassar College and Rice University. When not performing or teaching, she enjoys gardening, birding, and exploring with her husband, conductor Thomas Heuser, and their son Theo.

Amelia Barrett has been a music educator in the Four Corners area for over 25 years. She received her B.A. in Music Education from Fort Lewis College where she studied piano with Ying Ying Liu and Norman Krieger. She currently maintains a private piano studio in her home and is the Artistic Director of the Durango Children’s Chorale, Durango Youth Chorus, and the Durango Narrow Gauge Barbershop Chorus. Amy is a frequent clinician for choral and orchestra festivals in Colorado and New Mexico and both her school orchestras and community choirs have performed at the NMMEA and CMEA music festivals as well as at Carnegie Hall. Currently, she teaches K-5 music at Sunnyside Elementary. She lives in Durango, Colorado with her husband and four children.

American pianist, Dr. Lisa Campi Walters is active as a performer and chamber musician throughout North America, and she has performed for such venues as the National Music Teachers Association, CSMTA and MSMTA, the College Music Society, the Chautauqua Institute in New York, the Scotia Festival of Music in Nova Scotia, for CBC and National Public Radio. Currently teaching and collaborating in Orlando, Florida, Dr. Campi Walters previously served as the Professor of Piano at Fort Lewis College where she performed as the pianist for the Red Shoe Trio and as the keyboardist for the San Juan Symphony. She is co-director of the Piano Academy at Fort Lewis College, and she has served as board member and historian for the Four Corners Music Teachers Association. Dr. Campi Walters is a vigorous advocate for the music of our time, composes and performs a wide range of solo and chamber works by leading contemporary composers, and has been associated with several modern music ensembles. A native of Silver Spring, Maryland where she studied with Nancy O’Neil Breth, Dr. Campi Walters received her BM from Indiana University, her MM from the University of Maryland, and her DMA from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Rebecca Penneys.

Susan Doering, violinist, has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East as a soloist, recitalist, orchestral, and chamber musician. Her many television and public radio broadcasts include featured performances on NPR’s “Performance Today” and satellite broadcasts from China. She has recorded numerous CD’s on various labels including chamber music by composers Stephen Danker, Tarik O’Regan, and Ernest Bloch, including a harmonia mundi CD which was nominated for two Grammy© Awards in 2009. As a member of the Emerald Duo with Dieter Wulfhorst (violin/violoncello), Doering has toured in Europe numerous times. The Duo also participates in various period (historically informed) instrument workshops and seminars around the United States, has been on the faculty of an international festival in Sweden and Germany for the past one and a half decades, and has held residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, Western Oregon University, the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the Idaho State University in Pocatello. She holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan and her Doctorate degree from the University of Maryland. A former tenured Associate Professor of Violin, she has been on the faculties of Southwest Missouri State University, Arizona State University, California State University, Fresno, and Fresno Pacific University.

Born in California, Kristen Folden grew up involved in various musical activities from choirs to orchestras, the most significant being her study of the piano. She earned her Bachelor of Music from Biola University and her Master’s Degree from San Jose State University. Kristen began teaching young piano students in 1987 and is a certified Suzuki Piano Instructor. She has enjoyed working with children as young as 3 years old as well as adjudicating and teaching for various camps and festivals. In addition to teaching, Kristen has been actively performing in chamber music concerts through 3rd Ave Arts in Durango and other venues. She is also a violist with the San Juan Symphony and the Grand Junction Symphony. When she’s not performing, Kristen can be found creating art and cultivating her garden.

A performing artist and educator in the Four Corners region, Mika Inouye performs regularly as a pianist and harpsichordist. She also performs and promotes music of living composers with her two sisters in Inouye Six Hands, a unique six-hands on one piano combination. She has a large independent piano teaching studio and is co-president of the Four Corners Music Teachers Association. Mika teaches K-6 music at Durango 9R Shared School and trains music & movement teachers in the Orff Schulwerk philosophy during the summers in Los Angeles county and Norfolk, Virginia. As founding president of Four Corners Orff Chapter, she brings specialized professional development training to music teachers in the public schools. Mika is also a member of 20Moons Dance Theater in Durango and teaches inclusive creative dance classes in Durango 9R schools for Stillwater Music.

Sarah Inouye-Mano has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano performance and is a nationally certified piano teacher through Music Teachers National Association. She teaches early childhood music and movement classes, has presented at AOSA national conferences, and is past president of Utah Orff Chapter. Sarah is a Registered Children’s Yoga Teacher (RCYT).

Molly Jensen is a violinist with the San Juan Symphony and conductor of the San Juan Symphony Youth Orchestra. She has performed extensively in the Philadelphia and New York area with the Apollon Chamber Group and regional orchestras along the eastern seaboard. Her teaching and conducting experience have reached thousands of students in public, private, and youth orchestra programs in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. Locally, she has worked with Durango 9-R, Farmington Schools, and the San Juan Symphony to bring quality music education programs to students in the Four Corners area. Ms. Jensen holds degrees from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO.

Dr. Katherine Jetter is the Associate Professor of Cello and Music Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. She has undergraduate degrees in Applied Mathematics and Cello Performance from East Carolina University and a MM and DMA in Cello Performance from Florida State University. During her time in Florida, she was a member of the Camelia String Quartet, a group that made the final round of eight at the Carmel Chamber Music Competition. Dr. Jetter actively teaches cello, bass, string methods, chamber music, chamber orchestra, music fundamentals, and musical experience at the college and privately in the community. She regularly performs with the San Juan Symphony, the Red Shoe Trio, the Telluride Chamber Music Festival, and other chamber ensembles. Dr. Jetter is currently the treasurer of the CMS Central Regional Chapter and the 4CMTA local chapter, the University Council Representative for FLC, and a board member for the state ASTA CAP committee.

Rochelle Mann is a former Featured Scholar at Fort Lewis College, where she served as Music Department Chair as well as Acting Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. A graduate of Indiana and Arizona State Universities, she is currently a Professor Emerita at FLC, maintaining an active schedule as a flutist, author, and educator. Dr. Mann has served as Principal Flute of the San Juan Symphony since 1983, and has performed with the Santa Fe Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, Texarkana Symphony, and Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra. Other concerts include Third Avenue Arts, New Deal Salon, and Musica Viva.

American pianist Holly Quist has performed, collaborated, and taught within communities throughout the U.S., Ireland, and Italy. In 2013, she won second place in the Grand Rapids Bach Festival Collegiate Youth Keyboard Competition and was a finalist in the Western Michigan University Concerto Competition. Holly studied piano and chamber music at the Bay View Summer Music Festival, the Interharmony International Music Festival in Arcidosso and Aqui Terme Italy, and the Dublin International Piano Festival in Dublin, Ireland. At Western Michigan University, Holly studied under Lori Sims where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in keyboard performance. Following her Bachelors, she studied under Dr. Peter Miyamoto at the University of Missouri where she received a Master of Music degree in piano performance and held a graduate assistantship. She recently finished completing a Doctor of Musical arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied piano under Christopher Taylor, and piano pedagogy under Dr. Jessica Johnson. Today, Ms. Quist teaches as a professor of music at Fort Lewis College, where she teaches music theory, music history, and piano.

Dr. Richard Silvers began his musical studies in west Los Angeles at the precollege program of the Colburn Conservatory of Music. He attended the Herb Alpert School of Music at the University of California, and earned a Bachelor of Music in violin performance, graduating at the top of his class with ranks of Summa Cum Laude and Chancellor’s Marshall. He next attended the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music for a Master of Music studying with Professor Mark Kaplan. He completed his studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music, where he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in violin as a student of Dr. Soh-Hyun Park Altino as a University Fellow and musicology teaching assistant. Dr. Silvers’ professional engagements have included concerts throughout the United States, including such venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Royce Hall of Los Angeles, and Madison’s Overture Center. Outside of the United States, he has also performed in Italy and Switzerland. Dr. Silvers currently serves on the faculty at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Upper Strings.

Tennille Taylor began Suzuki violin at age 6. She completed her Bachelor of Music at Arizona State University in Music Therapy. She completed long-term Suzuki training at University of New Mexico and has owned and operated Tennille’s Violin House Suzuki Studio since 2004. She is Principal 2nd violin of San Juan Symphony and has played with San Juan Symphony since 2001. Tennille enjoys running, gardening, traveling and spending time with her husband, Ryan Niehaus, and her dog, Elsa.

Dieter Wulfhorst has performed extensively in more than twenty states in the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and Australia as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral performer. Formerly the principal cellist of the San Juan Symphony and of the Johnstown, PA Symphony Orchestra, he was also principal cellist of the Meridian and Tupelo Symphony Orchestras and interim principal cellist of the Fresno Philharmonic. Currently, he is a member of the Santa Rosa, CA Symphony and also performs regularly with the Monterey Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, and Tulare County Symphony. He performed for many years in Santa Fe, NM with Santa Fe Pro Musica, the Santa Fe Symphony and various chamber music ensembles. Born and raised in Germany, he studied with Friedrich-Jürgen Sellheim at the Musikhochschule in Hannover, Germany. In 1985, Wulfhorst came to the U.S. to continue his studies with Evelyn Elsing and the Guarneri Quartet at the University of Maryland at College Park where he earned his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. He plays a cello made by Giovanni Battista Rogeri (Brescia, 1693; “exJürgen Wolf”).