SASHA & MARI PIANO DUO

Program: 

C. Debussy The Petite Suite, L 65

1. En bateau (Sailing): Andantino
2. Cortège (Retinue): Moderato
3. Menuet: Moderato
4. Ballet: Allegro giusto

F. Schubert. Fantasie in F minor,  D.940

S. Rachmaninoff  - 6 Pieces, Op. 11

S. Sound Song of the Light, Op. 

Preview this incredible duo at the links below!

F Schubert Fantasie D 940 Segment Sasha& Mari Piano Duo: https://youtu.be/vQYerEiKneM

Sasha Sound - Song of the Light, Op.8, Sasha & Mari Piano Duo : https://youtu.be/gR3fSzwygyE

About the Artists

Sasha Sound is a concert and jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and music educator. He performed concerts in Russia, Europe, and the US. Sasha was a teaching assistant in the piano area and jazz studies at the University of Iowa. In the Spring of 2018 Sasha completed his doctorate at the University of Iowa. His final thesis is dedicated to the analysis and performance of tempo and rhythmical principles Al Rigore and Flessibile in Medtner's compositions. As a part of his final doctoral project, Sasha recorded Medtner's solo works: Tales op. 20, op. 34 No. 2,3, Three pieces op.31 including Improvisation op. 31 No. 1, and the Second Improvisation, op. 47.He also served as a piano faculty at Iowa Wesleyan College and at Indian Hills Community College in Iowa. He currently holds a Master Teacher position at Pacific Piano School in San Jose, California.

Mari Kawamura is a concert pianist whose curiosity has taken her in a variety of directions ranging from improvisation and dance to biology and physics. Kawamura is drawn to music, which utilizes the entirety of the piano as an expressive device. She is as equally fascinated by works that showcase the tremendous agility of the instrument, as by compositions that explore its ability to produce cavernous resonances, complex spectral sounds, and unpitched noise. After studying with Stephen Drury at the New England Conservatory, she pursued her Doctorate in Contemporary Music Performance at the University of California, San Diego, where she trained under Aleck Karis. Her research dealt with ma, an ancient Japanese concept concerning space and time, and is focused on identifying ma-like structures in music outside of Japan's sphere of influence with the goal of demonstrating that the concept of “charged stillness” is a widespread global phenomenon. 

SOLD OUT

River Garden Gala

featuring The Rogue Valley Brass Quintet

Music by the Mountain’s programs for our local community are funded in large part by our loyal patrons and donors.  In appreciation and as an opportunity to help fund future endeavors, Music by the Mountain is once again hosting a River Garden Gala at Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens this summer on Sunday, July 31st. Our concert this year features The Rogue Valley Brass Quintet, composed of leading brass musicians in the Rogue Valley, all current or former members of the Rogue Valley Symphony. Members of the quintet also play in the Ashland City Band and the Rogue Valley Symphonic Band.

Gates will open at 4:00 p.m. in the Botanical Gardens by the Sacramento River. Participants are invited to wander through the silent auction and visit with friends while enjoying a glass of wine and substantial hors d’oeuvres, catered by Pipeline Craft Taps and Kitchen of Mt Shasta. The musical portion will open with a brief performance by this year’s Carol Medrano Memorial Scholarship winner, followed by The Rogue Valley Brass Quintet at 6 p.m. Seating and tables will be available for guests, courtesy of Dunsmuir Rotary Club.

River Garden Gala tickets are $45 per person*

*includes the concert, hors d’oeuvres, and a glass of wine (other beverages available).

Concert-only tickets are $20 per person*

*Children under 14 years are free for concert only!

*includes access to no-host bar and concert

Get Your Tickets at the Gate!

River Garden Gala 2021 in the Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens featuring the Pacific Crest Music Festival Symphony. Photography by Cate Clother.

Music by the Mountain is very pleased to welcome back pianist Grisha Krivchenia to Siskiyou County! Not heard in our area since June 2019, we are excited to host this powerhouse of a performer, who delights audiences with his technique, versatility and approachability. Lauded as “the coolest classical musician around” (Santa Fe Reporter) and “presiding over outstanding technique” (Bergisches Zeitung), Grisha Krivchenia is a versatile artist whose performances and original compositions enthrall audiences throughout the northern hemisphere. 

Grisha’s program in Mt. Shasta on May 8th (Mother’s Day—make it a date!) will include Liszt’s Funerailles, Schubert’s Sonata in A Major, D664, and Ginastera’s Danzas Argentinas. Especially considering our current world politics, Franz Listz’s Funerailles is a very timely choice: it is an elegy written as response to the Habsburg crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (three of Liszt’s personal friends suffered either death or exile as a result). Schubert’s Sonata in A Major, D664 is the shortest of his piano sonatas with a character both lyrical and buoyant, evocative of a young Schubert in love and reveling in a summery Austrian countryside. Alberto Ginastera was a leading 20th Century Latin American composer, and his Danzas Argentinas (Argentine Dances) are a deservedly perennial audience favorite. We look forward to seeing you there! 

River Garden Symphony

featuring Pacific Crest Music Festival Strings Orchestra

Music by the Mountain’s programs for our local community are funded in large part by our loyal patrons and donors.  In appreciation and as an opportunity to help fund future endeavors, Music by the Mountain is once again hosting a River Garden Symphony at Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens this summer on Sunday, August 8. Our concert this year features the Pacific Crest Music Festival youth orchestra, performing under the baton of Martin Majkut, highly revered Rogue Valley Symphony conductor.

The student artists, ages 14 and up, are selected by audition to participate in the festival. During their stay they learn the art of chamber music, receive private lessons, perform in concert alongside world-class professional faculty, and participate in musical outreach events for the local community, including the Music By the Mountain 2021 Gala.  We are pleased to have a wonderful relationship with the PCMF and to be able to collaborate in this way for our gala.

Gates for the gala will open at 4:00 p.m. in the Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens by the Sacramento River. Participants will be invited to wander through the silent auction and visit with friends while enjoying a glass of wine and substantial tapas-like hors d'oeuvres. The concert will open with a brief performance by this year's Carol Medrano Memorial Scholarship winner, followed by the PCMF youth orchestra at 6pm. Seating and tables will be available for guests, courtesy of Dunsmuir Rotary Club. 

Tickets for the 4pm gala with wine & hors d’oeuvres are sold out.

Tickets for the 6pm concert may be purchased at the gate on the day of the event!

Photos from River Garden Symphony 2019, which was relocated to Dunsmuir’s Old Methodist Church due to rain.

River Garden Symphony

featuring Pacific Crest Music Festival Strings Orchestra

The Pacific Crest Music Festival students who have spent ten days in Dunsmuir participating in the 2020 ten day, intensive music course, will perform selections they have been rehearsing together.

The student artists, ages 14 and up are selected by audition to participate in the festival. During their stay they learn the art of chamber music, receive private lessons, perform in concert alongside world-class professional faculty, and participate in musical outreach events for the local community, including the Music By the Mountain 2020 Gala.  We are pleased to have a wonderful relationship with the PCMF and to be able to collaborate in this way for our gala.

River Garden Symphony 2019, relocated to Dunsmuir’s Old Methodist Church due to rain.

Grisha Krivchenia Concert - CANCELED due to Covid-19

Program:

Pop Etudes (2019) by Krivchenia
Etude Op. 10 no 4 by Chopin
Sonata, Op 27 n 2 “Moonlight” by Beethoven

-Intermission-

Sonata, Op 110 by Beethoven

Patrick Galvin, Violinist - CANCELED due to Covid-19

Patrick Galvin was born in San Francisco, CA, and made his solo debut at age 11 with the Oakland East Bay Symphony. Patrick studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore; the Prayner Konservatorium in Vienna, Austria; and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Patrick performs regularly throughout the United States and abroad, most often in solo appearances and with the pianist Jung-eun Kim.

Patrick will be playing Bach for a family matinee at 2pm, and an evening performance at 7pm.

$15 adults, $5 children

*This concert is hosted by Jefferson Center for the Arts

The Pacific Crest Chamber Players perform with Soprano Gloria Mendieta Gazave

Program:

Quartet No. 1 in Bb Major "La Chasse,” Op.1, No. 1 by Franz Joseph Haydn

String Quartet No. 14 in Ab Major, Op. 105 by Antonín Dvorák

Gazave’s program will include:

“Lascia ch’io pianga” by Handel

”Come mail poi vedermi piangere” by Marcello 

Conductor:  Mike Wright

Conductor: Chiharu Sai

Program: Beethoven, Vivaldi, Dubois, and Mozart

Conductors:  Dr. Ron Slabbinck, Dr. David Blink

Program:

Jules Massenet’s Thais Meditation

Caesar Franck's Violin sonata in A major

Astor Piazolla’s Tango Etude

Tickets: $20, can be purchased in advance at Mt Shasta Snow Creek Gallery -or- $25 at the door if not sold out.

*This is a Red Scarf Society event. Learn more at redscarfsociety.net.

Pianist Chiharu Sai and her musical colleagues will be offering a chamber music concert with an exciting and varied program at POPS Performing and Cultural Center on Sunday, November 3 at 3pm. This concert will be a fundraiser to support the services that Mercy Hospice provides to the elderly in the community.

Chiharu Sai has moved to Mount Shasta from New York City seven years ago after obtaining her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from Manhattan School of Music and performing extensively in major venues including Carnegie Hall and Opera City.

The musicians who agreed to perform in this fundraising concert upon Chiharu’s request share Chiharu’s belief in using their musical gifts as a service to those in need. Chiharu looks forward to introducing in the concert some of the best musical talents in our community including Carolyn Carl (violin), Julie Titus (flute), Gloria Gazave (soprano), Marianne Locke (clarinet), Monica Harle (piano), and Mona Angelini (cello) as well as wonderful musicians from out of town, Michael Eby (violin) and Sue Constantinides (flute), both from Redding, and Lydia Davis (violin) from Santa Cruz.

Admission is $20 suggested donation. Tickets are available at the door. For reservations, email Claudia Mansfield at cmansfield54@gmail.com. Reserved tickets are held at the door until the start time of the concert. Afterwards, they will be given to people on the waiting list.