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"Sing, Illinois! – A Bicentennial Celebration"
Date: Saturday, May 5, 2018 Time: 7:30PM Location: First United Methodist Church of Oak Park 324 N. Oak Park Ave. Oak Park, IL 60302 Tickets: Admission is $20 - general; $15 - Senior Citizens and students with I.D. Tickets may be reserved by phoning (708) 366-2889 or by e-mail info@MTSingers.org, or they can be purchased at the door. Whether picking up pre-paid tickets or purchasing at the door, it is suggested that patrons arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the concert. Seating: Seating for all performances is general admission. |
About the Program |
Join MTS and special guest, renowned trumpet artist, composer/arranger, Joe Burgstaller (formerly of the Canadian Brass) and organist Corrado Cavalli, as we celebrate the Illinois Bicentennial by featuring music of native Illinoisans or those with Illinois connections. Composers include Leo Sowerby, John La Montaine, Ned Rorem, Norman Luboff, Ron Nelson, Margaret Bonds, Lora Aborn, Shirley Whitecotton, Florence Price, William Ferris, and others. Also on the program is the premier of Burgstaller's arrangement for chorus and flugel horn of Astor Piazzola’s haunting composition “Oblivion."
This is a "don’t-miss" Illinois Bicentennial event! |
Special Guests |
 Photo and bio courtesy of www.joeburgstaller.com
Joe Burgstaller
Joe Burgstaller has thrilled audiences throughout the world with his dazzling virtuosity, captivating sensitivity and engaging personality. He tours worldwide as a soloist (30+ appearances this past season in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Taipei, Bangkok, Hamburg, Bologna, US Virgin Islands and 13 U.S. States) as well as a clinician with his groundbreaking masterclasses for all instruments called "Change Your Mind, Change Your Playing™". He is Distinguished Faculty at The Peabody Institute (The Johns Hopkins University) in Baltimore, MD, where he teaches trumpet and chamber music. Formerly with Canadian Brass (8 yrs.) and the avant-garde Meridian Arts Ensemble (6 yrs.), he was also one of the all-time most popular soloists at Columbia Artists' Community Concerts, performing 60 solo concerts every year. His extensive discography includes solo CDs (License to Thrill and The Virtuoso Trumpet) and three Top-10 Billboard hits. Joe Burgstaller is a Yamaha Performing Artist. Joe and his newest solo CD "License To Thrill" were recently the subject of an hour-long segment of The INNERView (100 million viewers) on Korea's Arirang Television, as well as an hour-long feature on Sirius-XM Classical Radio. "License To Thrill" features the music of Vivaldi-Bach, Sting, Jennifer Higdon, Gershwin, Chick Corea and a new commission by Su Lian Tan entitled "Ming". His last two CDs with his Classical/Jazz-Hybrid crossover group BM4 (Bach's Secret Files and Mozart's Blue Dreams) were Top-50 on the JazzRadio charts and the Roots Radio Report (under Paul Simon but right above the Beastie Boys). He has performed in front of more than 40 orchestras (Philadelphia, Minnesota, Detroit, Houston, Baltimore, New Jersey, Virginia, et.al) as a member of Canadian Brass and as a soloist, in more than 50 Music Festivals (14 summers at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA) and has performed and taught at over 80 universities, conservatories and colleges.  Photo and bio courtesy of www.cantius.org
Corrado Cavalli
Corrado Cavalli, a native of Turin, Italy, studied at the National Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Turin and the Turin National Conservatory, graduating with the highest degrees in organ, choral conducting and choral composition. Among his many honors, Maestro Cavalli was the winner of the 12th National Organ Competition “Città di Viterbo” (Pinchi Prize). He has performed with the Italian National Symphonic Orchestra of Rai, the French “Ensemble Orchestral des Alpes et de la Mer,” the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino and many others. He recorded CD’s for the Effatà and Elledici and Elegia Records music labels and published for Italian editions “Armeiln musica” and “Musica Practica.” In coming to St. John Cantius, Corrado leaves his position as music theory professor at the “Corsi di formazione musicale della città di Torino,” and his positions as organist at S.Giulia and San Filippo in Turin, and his position on the Commission for Sacred Music for the Archdiocese of Turin. |
