Music and Art Opportunities
Sunday, July 19 at 4PM
Join us for an evening of spectacular music with
Clarinetist, Shawn Coleman and Pianist, Dr. Obadiah Ariss
and an Art Display by Floy Walberg
Shawn Coleman - Clarinet, graduated
from Juilliard with a Bachelors of Music where he studied with Ayako
Oshima. He received his Masters of Music from the University of Colorado
in 2007. Mr. Coleman has served as Principal Clarinet of the Wyoming
Symphony and Bass Clarinetist with the Sinfonia Nacional de La
Republica Dominicana. Shawn has served on the Board of the Colorado
Youth Symphony and the faculty of the junior Session of Kinhaven Music
School (Weston, VT), as well as, on the Music Advancement Program (MAP)
of the Juilliard School. He was twice featured on CBS 60 Minutes
stories about the MAP program. He has an active performance and
teaching schedule. Shawn is keenly interested in politics, and over the
past 5 years has become increasingly involved in local and national
politics. In 2006 Shaw was appointed to the City of Boulder Downtown
Management Commission. He ran unsuccessfully for Boulder City Council
in 2007 and went on to represent Colorado's Second Congressional
District as a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
Currently, Shawn is a Legislative Assistant in Washington DC for
Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO).
Obadiah Ariss - Piano, has performed at venues across North America, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, the Elora Festival in Ontario, Canada,
and three engagements at the Colorado Music Festival's Eckstrand
Competition Performance Series. In 2003, Ariss received three
scholarships from the University of Colorado,
including the award for Best Graduate Solo Piano Performance in
recognition of his performance of Beethoven's Concerto No. 5 with the University of Colorado
Orchestra. Additionally, Ariss was presented with the Audience Choice
award at the 2006 Bruce Eckstrand Graduate Competition Finals. In 2006
Ariss received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Colorado. Previous mentors include Doris Lehnert of the University of Colorado,
Angela Cheng of the Oberlin Conservatory and James Anagnoson of the
Royal Conservatory of Music. Ariss is Director of Institutional Giving
for the Colorado Symphony Association.
Meet
with the performers and with our featured artist, Floy Walberg, at a
reception following the concert. All art displays in our reception
hall are provided by The Palette Gallery of Nederland,
which is an associate of the Mountain Community Music and Arts
Association. The reception will be hosted by members of the Nederland
Community Presbyterian Church.
Floy Walberg paints
in pastels, tempera-ink resist, opaque and transparent watercolor. A
native of rural Nebraska, Floy graduated from the University of
Nebraska and has been a Colorado resident since 1948. She had been in a
number of juried and group artistic shows and is a Signature Member of
the Colorado Watercolor Society, a member of the Denver Allied Arts
Guild, the Artists by Design (former student of Edith Niblo), and a
member of Park Hill Art Club, Foothills Art Center and is a volunteer
at the Denver Art Museum. Floy lives in Denver, Colorado and is a
summer resident of the Nederland/Sugarloaf area.
This is the second of five concerts in the MCMAA 2009 Summer series
(Behind the Mining Museum on Hwy 72).
To see the schedule of all five concerts in our series click here. …………………
Suggested $10-$20 donation is requested for each Concert/Artistic Display
(children are always free)
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