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Music announces November concerts
Performances by Grammy-nominated flutist Tara Helen O’Connor and organ virtuoso Joan Lippincott are among the highlights of the Department of Music’s concert schedule in November.
O’Conner will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, North Campus, as part of the Slee/Visiting Artist Series.
She also will present a flute/chamber music master class at noon on Nov. 6 in Baird Recital Hall, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus.
Lippincott will present a solo recital at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 in Lippes Concert Hall.
The concert is co-sponsored by the Buffalo Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
The November concert schedule also features a number of free performances by UB student ensembles and solo musicians.
Pianist Roman Rabinovich and flutist Barry Crawford will join O’Conner on her program, which will include works by Bach, Yan Widor, Belinda Reynolds, Lowell Liebermann, Michael Daugherty and Ian Clarke.
Advance tickets are $12 for general admission; $9 for UB faculty/staff/alumni and senior citizens; and $5 for students. Tickets at the door are $20, $15 and $8.
A charismatic performer known for her unusual artistic depth, brilliant technique and colorful tone in music of every era, O'Connor is a member of the innovative woodwind quintet Windscape. She also is a founding member of the 1995 Naumburg Award-winning New Millennium Ensemble and the soloist of the world renowned Bach Aria Group.
A 2001 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, she received two Grammy nominations in January 2003 for Osvaldo Golijov’s recording of “Yiddishbbuk.” She was the first wind player to be chosen to participate in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two program for emerging artists.
O’Connor performs regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto USA, Chamber Music Northwest, Music from Angel Fire and the Brandenburg Ensemble.
She is a professor of flute at the Purchase College Conservatory of Music.
Lippincott’s program will include work by Bach, Mozart, Schumann and Liszt.
Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for UB faculty/staff/alumni, senior citizens and students.
Lippincott has been acclaimed as one of America’s outstanding organ virtuosos.She has been a featured recitalist at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Spoleto USA Festival, t the American Bach Society Biennial, Dublin (Ireland) International Organ Festival, and at conventions of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society and the Music Teachers National Association.
She has performed on many of the most prominent organs in churches and universities throughout the United States, including those at Yale, Harvard, Duke, Stanford, Columbia and Princeton. ;She has traveled widely in Europe, studying, playing and performing in recitals on historic and contemporary organs in Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France.
Her many recordings on the Gothic label include the music of Bach, Duruflé, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Widor, Alain and Pinkham.
Professor emeritus of organ at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Lippincott presently devotes all of her time to performing and recording.
Tickets for all Department of Music concerts may be obtained at the Slee Hall box office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, from the Center for the Arts box office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and at all TicketMaster outlets.
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