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Fairfield Concert Association is proud to present: Michel Lauzière. Michel Lauzière is a man of many talents. He is a visual humorist, a fantasy artist, a musician and above all, he is a creative performer who has performed his one-man stage show on five continents for an estimated 1 billion viewers! On stage, Lauzière with his incredible talent and imagination, can make music out of anything. How can one best define Michel Lauzière? He is a combination of inventor, acrobat, comedian and musician rolled into one charismatic "Master of Unusual Comedy." From entering his famous huge balloon to playing classical music with his unique horn suit, or playing popular themes with water guns, dishes or absolutely anything he can find, Michel Lauzière reveals some of the most original and unique sight gags ever performed. A self-taught musician and artist of universal appeal, Michel Lauzière is one of the few comedic performers who can dazzle and entertain audiences of all social backgrounds, all ages, and all cultures with his humour, tenderness, wit and incredible skills. Fairfield Concert Association Membership information available by calling 641-472-4347.
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The March 27, first in a series of 3, auditions for the Superstar competition welcomes potential contestants singing songs of their choosing in front of a panel of 3 judges. Selected contestants will enter the finals of the Superstar competition on Saturday, April 17th in the Sondheim Center Theater. Finalists will be competing for prizes totaling $1,000.00. Auditions are being held in the Cambridge Meeting Room at 2:00 pm. Contestants will sing either a capella or accompany themselves. So far, over 70 persons have expressed interest in auditioning, with contestants from music departments at University of Iowa, Grinnell, MUM, Iowa Wesleyan, and local high schools as well as businesspersons, housewives, and teachers from nearby communities. The panel will pick 4 finalists and 4 contenders immediately following the auditions. The 4 contenders can audition again at the April 3 Superstar auditions. Final competion will be presented on April 17, 2010 as the participants compete for prizes totaling $1000! If you do not want to audition for the contest but only wish to watch the auditions there will be a charge of $3 at the door. Do you have what it takes to be a SUPERSTAR?
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The April 3, second in a series of 3,auditions for the Superstar competition will welcome potential contestants singing songs of their choosing in front of a panel of 3 judges. Selected contestants will enter the finals of the Superstar competition on Saturday, April 17th in the Sondheim Center Theater. Finalists will be competing for prizes totaling $1,000.00. Contestants will sing either a capella or accompany themselves. So far, over 70 persons have expressed interest in auditioning, with contestants from music departments at University of Iowa, Grinnell, MUM, Iowa Wesleyan, and local high schools as well as businesspersons, housewives, and teachers from Fairfield and nearby communities. The panel will pick the final 6 contestants immediately following the auditions. If you do not want to audition for the contest but only wish to watch the auditions there will be a charge of $3 at the door. Do you have what it takes to be a SUPERSTAR?
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Way Off Broadway presents, HAIR! Opening Friday, April 23, 2010 at 7:30 pm. HAIR puts rock music and the culture that went with it on stage. The show has a strong effect on everyone, and acts as a bridge between generations and viewpoints. What looks like incredible chaos is actually organized chaos. Phenomenal musical numbers include Aquarius, Good Morning Starshine, I Believe in Love, Hair, I Got Life, and What a Piece of Work Is Man This show has a vitality, a timelessness and a meaning that outlives the late 1960's and early 1970's in America. Come see Way Off Broadway’s high energy, creative explosion of this classic musical that is as important now in terms of subject matter and emotional importance as it was in the 60’s and the 70’s. See WOB’s take on the musical that just won the Tony as Best Revival and is currently running to sold out crowds on Broadway.
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1570 KMCD and 95.9 Classic 96 present The Sweethearts of Branson; The Sweethearts of Branson features the talents of Denny and Sheila Renee Yeary, who have won many awards for their great productions and incredible vocals. They continue to sell out shows everywhere they go, from Florida to Minnesota. The award-winning production features country and old time folk music. They will take you on a journey down memory lane with hits from Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves, among many others. Denny and Sheila are joined on stage by their daughter, who adds her youthful beauty and championship clogging skills. She also inspires with her instrumental ability, with a touching rendition of the song, "Grandpa." In addition, Branson's one and only cowboy comedian, "Tucker," joins the Yearys on stage. He contributes his crazy antics and wonderful renditions of great cowboy classics. Singing in his high tenor, he is a powerful addition to the Yeary's Quartet. If you liked Branson on the Road, you will LOVE Sweethearts of Branson!!!
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Music for String Quartet, Flute, Viola and Guitar performed by the Red Cedar Chamber Music group with the Avalon Quartet; presented by the Chamber Music Society of Fairfield. General Admission Adults $15 Students/Seniors 65+/IA Course $12 Children 12 and under free Tickets also available through Chamber Music Society Fairfield, P. O. Box 1271, Fairfield, IA 52556. Checks to the order of Fairfield Creates Foundation
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Janis Joplin’s original band, Big Brother and the Holding Company will play the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center Sondheim Theater with Blues Music Award nominee, Eddie “Devilboy” Turner, Thursday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. Big Brother and The Holding Company are primarily remembered as the group that gave Janis Joplin her start. But Big Brother also occupies a significant place in the history of San Francisco psychedelic rock, as one of the bands that best captured the era's loosest, reckless, and indulgent qualities in its high-energy mutations of blues and folk-rock. Big Brother was formed in 1965 in the Haight-Ashbury; by the time Joplin joined in mid-1966, the lineup was and still is, with the exception of the late James Gurley, whom just passed away in December, Sam Andrew and James Gurley on guitar, Peter Albin on bass, and David Getz on drums. Big Brother currently tours with a new guitar player and talented female vocalist. Big Brother catapulted themselves into national attention with their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, particularly with Joplin's galvanizing interpretation of "Ball and Chain". The Big Brother album featuring Joplin, Cheap Thrills (1968), celebrated its 40th Anniversary two years ago. It was assembled from both studio sessions and live material and went to number one with some of the best moments of acid rock's glory days, including "Ball and Chain," "Summertime," "Combination of the Two," and "Piece of My Heart.". Their one Mainstream album (released in 1967), contains some of their stronger cuts, such as "Down on Me" and "Coo Coo."  Taking the stage first will be Blusion recording artist Eddie “Devilboy” Turner. Turner, nominated for Blues Music Awards, is known as a guitar player that can channel the spirit of Jim Hendrix and has had his guitar playing skills called otherworldly, scorching and polyrhythmic. His ethereal style is an amalgam of the Afro-Cuban rhythms of his heritage and the music that influenced him as a teenager: Chicago blues, jazz, R&B and psychedelic rock.General admission tickets for Big Brother and the Holding Company and Eddie “Devilboy” Turner are $22 in advance and $25 at the show. Big Brother and the Holding Company and Eddie “Devilboy” Turner is presented by Simple Man Enterprises. For more information, visit FairfieldACC.com or SimpleManEnteprises.com or call 319-470-2082.
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Every four years, a select few pianists emerge victorious from the Van Cliburn International Piano competition: "the most prestigious classical piano contest in the world." (Chicago Tribune). On June 7, 2009, the winners of the Thirteenth Cliburn Competition were awarded significant cash prizes, CD recordings, and three years of international concert engagements. Experience the thrill of the Cliburn while celebrating the gifts of a young virtuoso when we present a special solo performance by Yeol Eum Son. Yeol Eum Son has performed with the Israel, New York, Seoul, and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestras, among other noted orchestras. Third-prize winner of the 2005 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Ms. Son has made debuts at several international music festivals, including the Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, the Rheingau Festival in Germany, and the Bowdoin Festival in the United States. She currently studies at the Hochschule fur Musik and Theater in Hannover, Germany, and has recorded a CD of Chopin etudes for Universal Music in Korea. The Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts Artist Series is proudly sponsored by Farm Bureau Services, KMCD/Classic 96, Foss, Kuiken, Gookin, & Cochran, PC, KKSI, KRKN, KBIZ, and KTWA,, Iowa Telecom, TrafFix Devices, Inc. Please join the Center in thanking our season sponsors. Reserved Seating Orchestra Seating $15 Rear Orchestra;Side and Rear Side Orchestra $11 Balcony and Mezzanines $7 No student prices available at this event
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Ten finalists, selected from expected auditions of over 100 people, will sing before a panel of judges to win the coveted Superstar at the Sondheim Award and cash prizes of $1,000 (with a $500 first prize award). Contestants are likely to include students and teachers from music departments at University of Iowa, Grinnell, Iowa Wesleyan, and local high schools as well as businesspersons, housewives, and teachers from Fairfield and nearby communities. Judges are Tena Nelson, Adrien Daller, Carol Lee Land, with special guest judge Jeff Shepherd from Minneapolis. Each of the ten finalist will sing one song. After each song, the judges will publicly rate the performance on a scale of 1-5. The three finalists with the highest scores will then sing one additional song. The audience will then vote for the best of the 3 finalists, and the audience vote and the judges votes will be tallied to selected the first, second and third prize winners. The audience and judges votes will be weighted equally. The 3 finalists will be invited to participate in the upcoming Saturday Night at the Sondheim Favorites and Friends show this fall. General Admission Adult: $15 Student: $12
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The Chamber Music Society of Fairfield is proud to present Tricia Park and Conor Hanick. They will be performing on Violin and Piano selections of Violin Sonatas by Brahms, John Adams, Ernest and Schubert Saturday May 1, 2010 General Admission Adults $15 Students/Seniors 65+/IA Course $12 Children 12 and under free Tickets also available through Chamber Music Society Fairfield, P. O. Box 1271, Fairfield, IA 52556. Checks to the order of Fairfield Creates Foundation
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Rastrelli Cello Quartet was formed in Germany by four Russians, all of whom shared a desire to prove that it is possible to play any style of music on the cello-from Baroque to Rock and anything in between. They can sound like a symphony one moment and play ragtime, jazz or even a polka the next. RASTRELLI CELLO QUARTET: "To say this performance was breathtaking is an understatement... This is a fabulous quartet of charismatic performers!" Thea S. Engelson, Clinton IA, presentere "What a Concert! One of the best we've ever presenter in our series." Peggy Krewson, Nantucket Arts Council, presentere "Riveting...Very entertaining...wild cheers...These four musicians could sound like a classical symphony one moment and play ragtime, jazz, klezmer or even a polka the next." The Barrie Examiner, Ontario, Canada Fairfield Concert Association Membership information available by calling 641-472-4347.
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Voices From Ellis Island: The Gateway to America, the front door to freedom, the Island of Tears. From 1890 to 1930, Ellis Island was the first experience of life in America for millions of immigrants. Their stories are amusing, frightening, inspiring, and true. Pippa White is in her fourteenth year as a solo performer. She calls her One's Company Productions "part theatre, part storytelling, part history." Audiences call them unique, captivating, and touching. The Director of Special Projects at the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs calls her "the highest quality artist," and the Kansas Storytelling Festival said her performance was "one of the high points in our festival history." Pippa grew up in San Francisco, appeared reguarly on television as a child, trained at the American Conservatory Theater Academy, and for five years was seen as hostess of a daily morning television show on ABC. Moving to the Midwest led to her pursing an education, starting a family, and reestablishing a career with work in theatres, arts in education programs, and finally, not just one, but several one-woman shows drawing on many different sources for a collection of unusual and entertaining solo productions. Ms. White has a love of dialects and accents which she tries to incorporate into her shows. some of her dialects come naturally, thanks to a British father, and both her parents spent considerable time in England. "Other children came home to milk and cookies after school," she says. " I came home to afternoon tea!" her parents often recounted amusing stories in dialect. However, not all Ms. White's dialects come easily. She uses the International Phonetic Alphabet (her mother taught speech and dialects at San Francisco State University) and she is always trying new dialects and accents. Most of her programs are stories of true events. The Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts Artist Series is proudly sponsored by Farm Bureau Services, KMCD/Classic 96, Foss, Kuiken, Gookin, & Cochran, PC, KKSI, KRKN, KBIZ, and KTWA,, Iowa Telecom, TrafFix Devices, Inc. Please join the Center in thanking our season sponsors. Reserved Seating Orchestra Seating $12 Rear Orchestra;Side and Rear Side Orchestra $10 Balcony and Mezzanines $8 Children 17 and under $1 No student prices available for this event.
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The Chamber Music Society of Fairfield welcomes Roy Eaton from New York City to the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center. Mr Eaton will be performing a Quantum of Preludes featuring Bach, Chopin, Gershwin, Still and Joplin. General Admission Adults $15 Students/Seniors 65+/IA Course $12 Children 12 and under free Tickets also available through Chamber Music Society Fairfield, P. O. Box 1271, Fairfield, IA 52556. Checks to the order of Fairfield Creates Foundation
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Concert saxophonist Ashu, age 26, has continually defied conventions winning major international and national competitions traditionally won by pianists and violinists. He made his recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in New York and, at age 16, made his concerto debut at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Since then, concerto and recital performances have taken him throughout the USA and Europe. With a dynamic style that captivates audiences, and a repertoire ranging from original works by Ibert, Debussy, and Villa-Lobos to his own arrangements of Piazzolla, Rachmaninoff, and Morricone, Ashu has shown that the concert saxophone can reach beyond stylistic categorization and to a large diversity of people. His playing has been described as “Riveting...Brilliant...Pizzazz to burn!” (National Public Radio Performance Today host) and “...just as much fun to watch him as it is to listen to him.” (Dallas Morning News). Born and raised in California, Ashu has won First Prizes at competitions including the International Heida Hermanns, International Kingsville Wind Instrumentalist, National Federation of Music Clubs, National Midland-Odessa, National Lennox, National George S. Howard, and Houston Symphony Concerto Competitions. Ashu graduated from Northwestern University and is currently based in Chicago. For more information, please visit his website at www.ashuonline.com.  Pianist Kuang-Hao Huang enjoys an active career of performing and teaching. He has performed throughout the United States as well as in England, France, China and South Korea. As a soloist, he has performed with the New World Symphony Orchestra, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra and has been heard on Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series (WFMT 98.7 FM).Mr. Huang is also an active collaborator, performing concerts and radio broadcasts with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and as a regular guest of the Chicago Chamber Musicians. He has performed with the Vermeer and Chicago String Quartets and on Ravinia’s Rising Stars series. An advocate of new music, Mr. Huang gave the world premiere performances of works by Louis Andriessen and Chen Yi at Weill Hall as part of Carnegie Hall’s Millennium Piano Book Project. He has also premiered works by Stacy Garrop, John Harbison, Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin, Daniel Kellogg, Rami Levin, James Matheson and Laura Schwendinger. He has been involved with the Chicago Chamber Musicians Composer Perspectives series since its inception in 2001 and has had the opportunity to work with many of the world’s foremost composers, including Pierre Boulez and John Corigliano. Mr. Huang has also performed with Fulcrum Point and MusicNOW. Mr. Huang serves on the adjunct faculties of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, Concordia University-Chicago and the Merit School of Music. As a member of the International Music Foundation’s Bootinsky Piano Trio, he presents educational outreach programs throughout the Chicago Public Schools. During the summer, he coordinates the piano program at Northwestern University’s National High School Music Institute and has also served on the faculty of the Mimir Chamber Music Festival at TCU in Ft. Worth, Texas. Mr. Huang has degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University and Northwestern University. His principal teachers include Leonard Hokanson, Joseph Kalichstein, Howard Karp, Rita Sloan and Sylvia Wang. During the 1996-97 season, he was a member of the New World Symphony. A native of Whitewater, Wisconsin, Mr. Huang currently resides in Oak Park, Illinois.
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In performance of classical as well as original music, Danish concert pianist and composer Werner Elmker emphasizes the importance of improvisation as the main source of all great music. Improvised music is 'fresh' music created in the moment, and often gives a stronger experience than music notated on paper. Most of the great composers used improvisation during recitals and composing. Like the classical masters, Mr. Elmker improvises in his own tonal language which finds its origin in previous styles of classical music. He utilizes free improvisation, improvisation on original melodies, classical themes, folksongs, and film music. Through performances, CDs, radio programs and education, he seeks to reinvigorate the lost art of classical improvisation. Mr. Elmker will be performing selections from Bach, Grieg, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Mussorgsky and some of his own original compositions. General Admission Adults $15 Students/Seniors 65+/IA Course $12 Children 12 and under free Tickets also available through Chamber Music Society Fairfield, P. O. Box 1271, Fairfield, IA 52556. Checks to the order of Fairfield Creates Foundation
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Carol Negro conducting L'Histoire du Soldat. Other works include Ballade for Violin and Piano, Three Pieces for Clarinet, Duet for Two Bassoons and the Pastoral. Nancy McFarland Gaub, Violin and Chamber Ensemble. Freddy Fonseca, Narrator General Admission Adults $15 Students/Seniors/IA Course $14 Children 12 and under free Tickets also available through Chamber Music Society Fairfield, P. O. Box 1271, Fairfield, IA 52556. Checks to the order of Fairfield Creates Foundation
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