PARTY ON!
BMC’s Centennial season kicked off on June 21 with a Gala Concert, featuring 16 Student Awards alumni, from Joanne Donnellan (1961) to Madeline Slettedahl (2011) – the payoff on 50 years of recognizing and rewarding budding virtuosos.
The festivities continue with BMC’s Centennial Night Beat Season:
• Three more multiple-Student Award champions,
• A Cabaret Evening of Cole Porter perennials,
• An opera diva from New York, and
• A boutique of outstanding talents from Western.
Please check below to see the ALL STAR line-up and concert dates, and our calendar for the full BMC season.
SEASON PASS
For a limited time, a season pass is available for purchase. 6 concerts for $60! With individual tickets priced at $15, the pass gives you 2 free concerts! Click on link to make your purchase and choose your date for the Cole Porter show. With the season pass, you have tickets waiting for you at ‘will call’ for all Night Beats except the benefit concert with Martin Kuuskmann (tickets can be purchased separately now – $20). At this time, individual tickets are also available for Susan Tang’s recital on Sept. 10 ($15) online, at Village Books and Piper Music ($15). See you at the concert!
Purchase individual Night Beat tickets in person at either Village Books (1200 11th St.), located in downtown Fairhaven, or Piper Music (2512 Meridian St.), located in Meridian Fountain District. Tickets are very affordable and available one month before each concert. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door before the concert.
TAKE-A-STUDENT
One teenager accompanied by an adult is admitted free to all 5 Night Beat concerts at First Congregational Church. Because of space limitations at Firehouse PAC, the offer is not valid for the Cole Porter show in October.
ALL-STAR LINEUP
September 10 – SUSAN TANG, pianist (BMC Awards 1997, 1998)
Assistant Professor at NE Illinois University and Artistic Director of the Chicago Chamber Music Festival, Susan Tang holds B.Mus., M.Mus. and DMA degrees from the Eastman and Manhattan schools of Music. Of all her performances — Ravinia Festival, Carnegie-Weill Hall, the Far East, North America, Colombia — she takes special pride in that gig as pianist-actor with the outrageously avant-garde Mabou Mines Dollhouse.
Dr. Tang will play a program of Chopin, Ives, Ligeti and Albeniz.
October 8 and 24 – A SWELL PARTY WITH COLE PORTER*
They’re b-a-a-ack! The Cabaret cabal returns in a new musical comedy revue with the songs of Cole Porter. Music direction Scott Henderson.
Book by Scott Henderson, Martin Bray and Larry Rosen.
With: Sherrie Kahn, Martin Bray, Megann Schmidt, Ben Buchanan and Martha Benedict as Elsa Maxwell. (rated PG-14 for sophistication.)
*(Firehouse PAC. Sorry, no Take-a-Teen passes.)
DEC. 3 – JEREMY BERRY, violist (BMC Awards 2001, 2002, 2003)
Let the Revels begin! We have been lucky enough to steal Jeremy Berry for a day or two from the renowned Calidore Quartet, and his duties as Visiting Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University. A graduate of both The Juilliard School (B.Mus.) and Colburn Conservatory of Music (Artist Diploma), Mr. Berry has soloed in concertos with the American Youth Symphony and Bellingham Festival of Music, and took first place in the Marrowstone Festival Concerto Competition. Other appearances include the Aspen, Sarasota, Verbier and Kneisel Hall Festivals, the Itzhak Perlman Program, and Youth Orchestra of the Americas. Jeremy Berry began his viola studies with Elizabeth Stuen-Walker at the age of five.
APRIL 7 – WESTERN TREASURES
Every year we bestow the Virginia Glover Awards on three Western students, chosen in competitive audition. But the awards concert is often more about the joy of collaboration, as the recipient’s friends pile on for an exhilarating classical jam session, full of virtuosity and fun.
MAY 5 – JEREMY DESCHANE, pianist (BMC Awards 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
In addition to sweeping our Enid Carrick Awards, Jeremy Deschane twice won the WSTMA Young Artists Competition, and presented an award-winning piano trio performance at the 2012 MTNA National Convention. Solo and chamber appearances have taken him across the U.S., and he has appeared with orchestras in Bellingham, Seattle, Ellensburg and Rochester. His teachers have included Jeffrey Gilliam, Rebecca Penneys at the Eastman School of Music, and John Pickett at Central Washington University, as well as master classes and lessons from such artists as Leon Fleisher, Malcolm Bilson, Stephen Drury and Gil Kalish, and studies at the Icicle Creek and Chautauqua Festivals. Jeremy Deschane lives in Seattle.
JUNE 2 – KATHERINE COPLAND, soprano
At Manhattan School of Music, Katherine Copland was Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus. Other lead roles in New York include The Judgment of Paris (Eccles), the Brahms Requiem, Messiah, Simon Boccanegra, Carmen, and Sir John in Love; in Italy, La rondine, Anna Bolena, Madama Butterfly, and Le nozze di Figaro (both the Countess and Susanna). Ms. Copland grew up in Bellingham, and earned a B.Mus. degree from the University of Washington. She now resides in New York City.
SEASON PASS: 6 concerts for $60.
Online until Sept 10 or at the door (Sept. 10 Night Beat).
TAKE-A-STUDENT: One teenager accompanied by an adult is admitted free to all 5 Night Beat concerts at First Congregational Church. Because of space limitations at Firehouse PAC, the offer is not valid for the Cole Porter show in October.