Sonata Soiree
Saturday, September 28th at 7 pm 1201
UTRGV Performing Arts Complex
A B O U T T H E
Jared Agee is a conductor and collaborative pianist from Dallas, TX. He received two undergraduate degrees from Abilene Christian University, and a Masters in Choral Conducting from the University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory. During his time at UMKC he also studied collaborative piano with Dr. Karen Savage. He has performed with several choirs, including the Abilene Christian University Acapella chorus, and most recently, played Eric Whitacre's Sacred Veil with SONUS Chamber Choir at their debut performance in Kansas City. In addition to playing with choirs, Jared enjoys chamber music and attended the Puerto Rico Center for Collaborative Piano in the summer of '23. There he collaborated with many wonderful musicians including Diana Seitz. He is currently the Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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B O U T T H E P E R F O R M E R S
Diana Seitz is currently violin faculty at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas where she resides with her husband and the youngest of her three children. A soloist and chamber musician in demand, Diana has had the pleasure of performing in sold-out venues such as:Segerstrom Concert Hall (Costa Mesa, CA), Detroit Music Hall (MI), Lensic Performing Arts Center (Santa Fe, NM),Krannert Center (Champaign, IL), The Palladium (Carmel, IN), Touhill Performing Arts Center (St. Louis, MO), ARTIS-Naples (FL), Steinmetz Hall, and Dr. Phillips Center (Orlando, FL). Diana’s most recent engagements included a full-length Recital at Carnegie Hall with pianist Maya Tuylieva and cellist Esther Seitz.Born and raised in Baku, Azerbaijan into a family of professional singers, Diana grew up backstage traveling with her parents’ rock band. She made her debut at the age of nine as a soloist with chamber orchestra. As a teenager, she went on to become a laureate of the Azerbaijan National Young Musician’s Competition, performing Paganini’s Violin Concerto No.1 with the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Orchestra, including a fiendishly difficult cadenza by E. Sauret.
After graduating from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, Diana was forced to leave her homeland. A refugee fleeing severe ethnic persecution, Diana stepped off an airplane onto US soil in 1993 and never looked back. Since then, Seitz has performed all around the US, including solo appearances with the Kansas City Civic Orchestra, Kinnor Philharmonic Orchestra (Kansas City, KS), Grassroots Festival Orchestra (PA), Endless Mountain Music Festival Symphony Orchestra (Corning, NY), Lancaster Symphony Orchestra (PA), and was the featured soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Turkmenistan on the soundtrack of the VR immersive documentary “1991”. Diana’s international career has taken her to concert halls in Russia, Europe, and Mexico, and has garnered the highest praise of her colleagues. Diana’s fast-growing YouTube channel Seitz String Pros has allowed her to connect with audiences in both the US and abroad. Diana plays a 1759 Paolo Testore violin.
PROGRAM
An Evening of Sonatas
Sonata, for Violin and Piano, Op. 162 / D. 574 in A major Franz Schubert I Allegro Moderato (1797-1828)
II Scherzo
III Andatino
IV Allegro vivace
Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 51 no. 1. Joaquin Turina
I Lento, Allegro molto (1882-1949)
II Aria
III Rondeau
Suite for Violin and Piano
William Grant Still
I African Dancer (1895-1978)
II Mother and Child
III Gamin
Diana Seitz, Violin
Jared Agee, Piano
UTRGV Symphonic Winds & Wind Orchestra
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