SASHA & MARI PIANO DUO Return to Mt Shasta!

Sunday, August 24th, 3pm

Seventh Day Adventist Church, Mt. Shasta

$25 suggested donation at the door

The Program

Experience Romanticism through the expressive power of four-hand piano, as Sasha & Mari explore themes of emotion, nature, and imagination. Their program features works by Schubert, Debussy, Fauré, Schumann, Karen Tanaka, and an original composition by Sasha Sound. Selections include Fantasie in F Minor, Petite Suite, Dolly Suite, Herb Garden, Pictures from the East, and Song of the Light.

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. 

Annual Gala Fundraiser

Music, Hors d'Oeuvres, Silent Auction

Saturday, August 23rd, 4:30pm

Private Residence, Mt. Shasta

$50 in advance, $55 at the door

Join us for Music by the Mountain’s 21st Annual Gala Fundraiser!

Classical and jazz lovers, don’t miss an enchanting evening of music, food, and fun on Saturday, August 23rd at 4:30 PM at Singing Rock Ranch, a private and gorgeous venue (with a beautiful Bösendorfer grand piano!) belonging to the Tom and Nancy Driscoll Foundation.  Gala performers include the 2024 Carol Medrano Scholarship recipient Linnea Dolf (currently a student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston), Scott Durbin, Sally Porter Munro, and Laura Dahl.

Ticket includes excellent performances by beloved local musical legends, plus sweet and savory bites from Bee Kind Catering. Wine and other beverages available for purchase. The evening also features a fabulous silent auction with generous contributions from local businesses and renowned California & Oregon wineries.

Address will be shared with ticket holders prior to the event. Stay tuned for performance details!

Secure your spot for this unforgettable celebration of music!

Photos above from 2023 and 2024 Music by the Mountain Gala Fundraisers!

EARHART TRIO IN CONCERT

Sunday, September 22nd, 2pm

SDA Church, Mt. Shasta

$20 suggested donation at the door

ABOUT THE EARHART TRIO

Named after Amelia Earhart, the Earhart Trio was founded in 2024 by pianist Kumiko Uyeda, violinist Kate Stenberg, and cellist Mary Artmann. The trio was created out of a desire to perform chamber music that advocates the nurturing of the earth’s environment while maintaining the spirit and love of traditional chamber music. The trio is dedicated to bringing diverse, exciting, and thoughtful music to audiences and enjoy performing both lesser-known works as well as beloved masterpieces of the repertoire. Living and working around the SF Bay Area, the illustrious members of the group have rich and varied background in performing and teaching.

Pianist Kumiko Uyeda is an active chamber musician in Santa Cruz and the Bay Area. She performs in various genres, including western art music, Brazilian folk-jazz (choro), and collaborates with poets, global-music instrumentalists, and butoh dancers. She received her M.M. degree in piano performance from the Manhattan School of Music and has published two solo piano CD albums to date: Music of Erik Satie and Art of Love. She received her Ph.D. in cultural musicology from U.C. Santa Cruz with research on the intersections of music and social movements of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan. www.kumikomusic.com

A leading interpreter of contemporary chamber music, violinist Kate Stenberg has performed in a dozen countries across the globe. She has premiered over one hundred solo and chamber works including works by Gabriella Lena Frank, Peter Sculthorpe, Chinary Ung, Jack Body, Tania Leon, Charles Amirkhanian, Per Nørgård, and Kui Dong. Her recordings are available on New World Records, Sono Luminous, Newport Classics, New Albion and Other Minds. She was a co-founder of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble and Real Vocal String Quartet and served twenty years as first violinist of Del Sol String Quartet. Currently, Stenberg performs regularly with pianist Sarah Cahill and is a founding member of the newly-formed Mycos Project, an eco-arts collective expanding climate change awareness through the fine arts. www.katestenberg.com   www.themycosproject.org

Cellist Mary Artmann is an active chamber musician, recitalist, and freelancer in the Bay Area. Ms. Artmann is a former member of the award-winning Veronika String Quartet, artists-in-residence at Colorado State University-Pueblo. Many of her collaborative performance projects have been sponsored by grants from the Colorado Council on the Arts and the New York State Council of the Arts. She has recorded for Colorado Public Radio, Radio Nuevo Leon, Radio France, WDR (Cologne, Germany) and WBFO’s Opus Classics Series (Buffalo, NY). She was twice the recipient of the Alfred Hertz Memorial Traveling Fellowship, sponsoring intensive study in Cologne, Germany and Los Angeles. Ms. Artmann maintains a private teaching studio in Richmond. She is an avid hiker, a member of the Sierra Club and is committed to using her skills to address our global climate emergency. www.maryartmann.com

OPENING GALA

Live Music, Hors d'Oeuvres & Beverages, Silent Auction

Saturday, September 21st, 4pm

Axe & Rose Public House, McCloud

$50 in advance, $60 at the door

Get your tickets:

FEATURING LIVE CHAMBER MUSIC BY THE EARHART TRIO, CLASSICAL GUITAR BY MIKE YEE, KEVIN MCDOWELL, AND JASON HENKLE, AND MORE!

ABOUT THE EARHART TRIO

Named after Amelia Earhart, the Earhart Trio was founded in 2024 by pianist Kumiko Uyeda, violinist Kate Stenberg, and cellist Mary Artmann. The trio was created out of a desire to perform chamber music that advocates the nurturing of the earth’s environment while maintaining the spirit and love of traditional chamber music. The trio is dedicated to bringing diverse, exciting, and thoughtful music to audiences and enjoy performing both lesser-known works as well as beloved masterpieces of the repertoire. Living and working around the SF Bay Area, the illustrious members of the group have rich and varied background in performing and teaching.

MIKE YEE has studied classical guitar since 1975 and taught guitar at the San Luis School of Music in 1980. Since then, he has been a closet musician to balance his engineering activities.

KEVIN MCDOWELL has been playing guitar since 1969, graduated from San Jose State with a bachelor of arts in guitar in 1987, and has ben a certified Suzuki guitar instructor since 1989. He taught classical guitar at Bethany University in Santa Cruz and various public and private schools in the area. He performed with his two daughters, playing violin, cello, and guitar for 25 years. Kevin is currently teaching 10 students and playing at a variety of venues in Siskiyou County.

After studying forestry and music at College of the Siskiyous, JASON HENKLE left Siskiyou County to study Forest Ecology at Humboldt Polytechnic while writing and performing in an indie rock band for 3 years. After graduating, he returned to Siskiyou County as a forest manager and picked up classical guitar again. Once a student of Mr. Yee, Jason has been studying and playing guitar since 2014 and recently started a musical YouTube channel.

Please join us for a piano & violin concert featuring duoart, an ensemble formed by two musicians – Sasha Sound and Leo Iogansen.

Program

L. van Beethoven

Sonata for Piano and Violin Op. 47, "Kreutzer"

I. Adagio Sostenuto. Presto

II. Andante con Variazioni

III. Presto

Leo Iogansen 

Remembrances

Astor Piazzolla

Rio Sena

Chau Paris

Plus Ultra

Adios Nonino

Tristezza

S. Sound

Homage A Medtner

A. Piazzolla

Grand Tango

Sasha Sound, DMA
Sasha Sound is a concert and jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and music educator. He received DMA from the University of Iowa. In 2014 as a member of Ephawk Quartet he performed Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps. The concert tour in western Iowa has gained a considerable resonance, the performance was regarded in media as “miraculous.” The same year Mr. Burdin accepted fellowship at Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, MA. In 2015 Sound and his colleagues Thiago Ancelmo, clarinet, and Andrew Uhe, violin have formed Nashat Trio. They performed works By Bartok, Milhaud, Khachaturian and Schostakovich, and appeared as featured ensemble at Laredo Music Festival 2016. In 2015 -2016 season Sound participated in Johnson County Landmark jazz band as a principal pianist, performing with guest artists – Carmen Bradford (former singer at Count Basie’s Jazz Band) and Melvin Butler (Brian Blade Fellowship Band). In 2016 Sound founded The Sasha Burdin Quartet, performing original compositions and pieces from standard jazz repertoire. In 2016 he started a collaboration with Rachel Joselson, soprano, and Scott Conklin, violin on Medtner’s music. The collaboration soon resulted in a series of concerts, and CD Ich denke dein: Songs and Chamber Works of Nikolai Medtner. CD of Medtner’s solo works. As a part of his doctoral project, Sound recorded a number of Medtner’s piano solo works, including rarely performed Second Improvisation, op.47. A new CD with these recordings is getting ready to be released in 2019

Leo Iogansen, DMA
Born in Russia, Leo Iogansen started his violin studies at 7. He has premiered many new chamber and solo works, including his own Violin Concerto. He has won several competitions, such as the Young Virtuosos International Competition in 1999, which resulted in his performance in Carnegie Hall the same year. As a composer, Iogansen has written many solo, chamber, and orchestral pieces, much of which were performed by notable ensembles, such as JACK Quartet. In the Summer of 2006, Shuang Yin International Music Festival commissioned Iogansen for a number of humorous pieces for various chamber ensembles. The performances were broadcast on Taiwan’s National Television. Iogansen is also a visual artist and has won many competitions, including Gold Key Award for at the Boston Globe competition in 1997.

Iogansen graduated with BM from Boston University, MM Masters degree with the same majors from Peabody Conservatory, and a PhD in composition from the University of Iowa. He studied violin with Dana Mazurkevich and Keng-Yuen Tseng, and composition with David Gompper, Samuel Headrick, Richard Cornell, Martin Amlin, Charles Fussell, and Bruno Amato. Iogansen is also a software developer and inventor and has published several innovative apps on the iTunes app store. One of the apps Tollsmart Toll Calculator, has hundreds of thousands of downloads. This led to Iogansen’s co-founding the company Tollsmart – as a CTO. His latest project focuses on solving the issues of street parking.

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.