Lynn University’s Conservatory of Music Announces Full Series of Classical Concerts During 2013-2014 Season in Boca Raton
(Boca Raton, FL – July 29, 2013) Jon Robertson, Dean of Lynn University’s Conservatory of Music and Philharmonia Guest Conductor, today announced the Conservatory’s ambitious 2013-2014 season.
“The talented students and extraordinary faculty of the Lynn University Conservatory of Music look forward to sharing the beautiful world of music during our third season in the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center, a world-class concert hall that enhances the musical offerings of our performing artists,” said Robertson. “Our 2013-2014 season will present a broad variety of musical offerings designed to enrich the artistic spirit and nourish the soul. Please join us for a magnificent season of great music.”
Running from September 19, 2013 through April 10, 2014, all but one of the concerts will be held in either the Wold Performing Arts Center or the Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall, two comfortable and acoustically outstanding performance spaces that are located across from one another on Lynn University’s lovely Boca Raton campus.
The only off-campus performance will be the 11th annual Gingerbread Holiday Concert that will be held on December 8 at the Boca Raton Resort and Club.
Lynn Philharmonia
The Lynn University Philharmonia sets the standard for conservatory level symphonic training. Now in its 21st season as a full symphony, the Philharmonia continues to present high-quality concerts with a wide range of repertoire. Guillermo Figueroa is the Lynn Philharmonia’s new Music Director and Conductor.
October 5 at 7:30 p.m. (Saturday)
October 6 at 4 p.m. (Sunday)
Lynn Philharmonia #1
Jon Robertson, Conductor
+ Mozart: Symphony No. 38 “Prague”
+ Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Box: $50 / Orchestra: $40 / Mezzanine: $35
October 26 at 7:30 p.m. (Saturday)
October 27 at 4 p.m. (Sunday)
Lynn Philharmonia #2
Jon Robertson, Conductor
+ Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3
+ Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 “Classical”
+ Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 “New World”
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Box: $50 / Orchestra: $40 / Mezzanine: $35
(Sponsored by Arylne and Myron Weinberg)
November 16 at 7:30 p.m. (Saturday)
November 17 at 4 p.m. (Sunday)
Lynn Philharmonia #3
Guillermo Figueroa, Conductor
Featuring winners of the annual Conservatory Concerto Competition
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Box: $50 / Orchestra: $40 / Mezzanine: $35
December 8 – 3 p.m. (Sunday)
GINGERBREAD HOLIDAY CONCERT
Sponsored by Bank of America
Presented by the Lynn University Friends of the Conservatory of Music
Children of all ages will enjoy the beloved music traditions of the holidays in this much-anticipated concert performed by The Lynn University Philharmonia Orchestra.performs this much-anticipated community concert. Proceeds from the concert benefit annual
scholarships for Conservatory of Music students.
Boca Raton Resort and Club
Great Hall – 501 E. Camino Real in Boca Raton
Tickets: $35 general admission includes cost of the valet
(NOTE: Tickets must be presented at the door for admittance. No entry without a ticket.)
January 18 at 7:30 p.m. (Saturday)
January 19 at 4 p.m. (Sunday)
Lynn Philharmonia #4
Guillermo Figueroa, Conductor
+ Mozart / Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
+ Brahms / Double Concerto
with Carol Cole, violin, and David Cole, cello
+ Sierra: Fandangos
+ Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Box: $50 / Orchestra: $40 / Mezzanine: $35
February 8 at 7:30 p.m. (Saturday)
February 9 at 4 p.m. (Sunday)
Lynn Philharmonia #5
Guillermo Figueroa, Conductor
+ Rossini / Overture to William Tell
+ Strauss: Don Juan
+ Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Box: $50 / Orchestra: $40 / Mezzanine: $35
March 22 at 7:30 p.m. (Saturday)
March 23 at 4 p.m. (Sunday)
Lynn Philharmonia #6
Guillermo Figueroa, Conductor
+ Mahler / Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”
Featuring the Master Chorale of South Florida
with Timothy Cobb, Double Bass
+ Rimsky-Korsakov / Scheherazade
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Box: $50 / Orchestra: $40 / Mezzanine: $35
Mostly Music Series
Mostly Music is a unique concert series whose purpose is to better acquaint audiences not only with the music, but also with the lives and artistic development of the Western world’s greatest composers. Between musical compositions, actors read excerpts of personal letters written by the featured composers around the same period
as the music to be performed. These composers were geniuses but they too lived with all the joys, frailties and frustrations common to humanity. The concerts feature Lynn Conservatory’s faculty members, students and guest artists. Mostly Music is conceived and hosted by Marshall Turkin and staged by Director of Theatre Arts Jan McArt.
January 16 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Mostly Music: Haydn
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $20
February 27 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Mostly Music: Beethoven
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $20
April 3 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Mostly Music: Eastern European/USA Connection
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $20
New Music Festival
The 8th Annual New Music Festival with Shirley J. Thompson, Composer-in-Residence, and Director Lisa Leonard.
February 23 – 4 p.m. (Sunday)
Faculty Concert
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: FREE
Paying homage to past greats while looking forward to new discoveries, this program will feature the Southern world premiere of the 2013 joint commission work, The Devil’s Tale by 2008 composer-in-residence James Stephenson III. Sequel features the same instrumentation as Stravinsky’s and tells the rest of the soldier’s tale. Additionally, the Pulitzer Prize winning compositions of 1971 and 1988, Davidovsky’s Synchronisims No.6 and Bolcom’s 12 New Etudes will be performed by pianist Lisa Leonard.
February 24 – 7:30 p.m. (Monday)
Contemporary Music Forum
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: FREE
A highlight of past festivals, a panel comprised of a composer, conductor, music critic, and performer will discuss various artistic, philosophical, and practical components and issues of modern and contemporary music. Audience participation is encouraged.
February 25 – 7:30 p.m. (Tuesday)
Spotlight No. 1: Young Composers
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: FREE
The opening night of the eighth annual New Music Festival featuring the world premiere of works by our extraordinary composition majors performed by the composers themselves and their peers. The program will also feature the winning work of the 2014 Florida State Music Teachers Association high school composition competition.
February 26 – 7:30 p.m. (Wednesday)
Spotlight No. 2: Shirley J. Thompson
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: FREE
Featuring the world premiere of the Lynn 2014 commissioned work, groundbreaking composer Shirley J. Thompson is the first woman in Europe to have composed and conducted a symphony in the last 40 years. She describes herself as a composer who sees no boundaries in musical styles and fuses Contemporary classical orchestrations with popular and world music styles. Born and raised in east London to Jamaican parents, she serves on the faculty at the University of Westminster and is named on the Evening Standard’s “Power List of Britain’s 100 Most Influential Black People.”
Faculty Recital Series & Master Classes
September 26 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
GUILLERMO FIGUEROA Violin Recital
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $20
October 3 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
From the Studio of LISA LEONARD
“Shades of Romanticism”
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $10
October 24 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
ELMAR OLIVEIRA Violin Recital
Lisa Leonard, Piano
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $20
December 5 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
“Great Duos”
+ Carol Cole, Violin
+ David Cole, Cello
Lisa Leonard, Piano
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $20
February 13 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
ROBERTA RUST in Recital
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $20
Pianist Roberta Rust, Artist Faculty-Piano/Professor and Head of the Piano Department at the Lynn University Conservatory of Music, presents a colorful recital of solo works including the Mozart Rondo K. 511 and Gigue K. 574, Schubert Impromptus D. 935, No. 3 and D. 946, No. 1, Granados Spanish Dances Nos. 2 & 5, Debussy Ballade (Slave), Heroic Berceuse, An Evening in Grenada, Prelude (Fireworks), Nazareth Tango (Odeon), and Villa-Lobos Alma Brasileira & Valsa da dor.
February 19 – 7:30 p.m. (Wednesday)
ELMAR OLIVEIRA & the Golden Rule Ensemble
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $20
Elmar Oliveira, internationally renowned violinist and Artist in Residence at Lynn University’s Conservatory of Music will perform, conduct and record in live concert an entire program of Baroque violin concerti. The concert will feature the debut of the Golden Rule String Orchestra, an ensemble assembled by Mr. Oliveira featuring some of Lynn’s most distinguished string players.
March 20 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
MICHAEL ELLERT Bassoon Recital
Lisa Leonard, Piano
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $20
Explore the versatility of the bassoon and the broad spectrum of music written for it across the centuries. Join Michael Ellert and pianist Lisa Leonard and discover why Frank Zappa was quoted as saying: “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments.”
March 30 – 4 p.m. (Sunday)
From the Studio of ROBERTA RUST
“Playing By Heart”
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $10
Featuring the outstanding Conservatory piano students of Roberta Rust in a varied program of piano works, specially selected by each performing student for this occasion. Rust contributes commentary about the music presented throughout the program.
Special Guests
January 11 – 7:30 p.m. (Saturday)
DR. JOYCE ZANKEL LINDORFF Fortepiano Recital
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $20
Special guest Dr. Joyce Lindorff, Professor of Keyboard Studies at Temple University, will perform on our recently donated pianoforte. This is an exciting chance to hear classical period piano music as it was originally intended. The fortepiano for this performance was generously donated by the estate of Virginia Pleasants.
Guest Pianist Weekend with Philip Fowke
January 25 – 7:30 p.m. (Saturday)
PHILIP FOWKE in Recital
“The Art of Encore”
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $20
Pianist Philip Fowke presents a program associated with some of the great pianists of the past. Music of Chopin, Dohnanyi, Grieg, Moszkowski, Paderewski, and Sinding, will be included, as well as some lesser-known gems. Fowke will introduce and perform these works, giving something of their background and his personal association with them and the pianists who played them.
Known for his many BBC Promenade Concert appearances, numerous recordings and broad range of repertoire, Mr. Fowke has appeared in many of the major concert halls worldwide with leading conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Simon Rattle and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. Fowke has made recordings for EMI, Lyrita, Unicorn, CRD, Chandos and Naxos which include the concertos of Addinsell, Bliss, Delius, Hoddinnott, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Tchaikowsky. He has also recorded the complete Chopin Waltzes, Chopin Sonatas, and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Paganini Rhapsody with the RPO conducted by Yuri Temirkanov on EMI. Philip Fowke has recently performed with The Prince Consort in the Wigmore Hall, Cheltenham Festival, and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
January 26 – 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. (Sunday)
PHILIP FOWKE
Master Classes
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
No tickets necessary. FREE.
Philip Fowke is currently Senior Fellow of Keyboard at Trinity College of Music and is recognized for his teaching, coaching and tutoring in which he enjoys exploring students’ potential, encouraging them to develop their own individuality. He is a regular tutor at the International Shrewsbury Summer School as well as at Chethams International Summer School. In 2012 he served on the jury of the 2nd International Shura Cherkassky Piano Competition in Milan. Students from the Conservatory piano studios, solo and collaborative, will perform in the class.
January 29 – 7:30 p.m. (Friday)
4th Annual Collaborative Spotlight:
Miami Brass
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $20
Come witness the premiere performance of the Miami Brass. The group is made up of some of today’s most sought after brass players, including present and former members of the Dallas, Boston and Empire Brass Quintets. These five musicians are well known for thrilling audiences with their virtuosity and captivating artistry.
Palm Beach Chamber Music Series
The musicians of The Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival partner with Lynn University to present their premier fall series. Continuing their two decades-long tradition of varied programs and mixed ensembles, the group will perform great masterworks of composers ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky. Concerts will include several side-by-side performances with some of Lynn’s most talented students.
September 19 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Chamber Music Palm Beach No. 1
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $20
October 10 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Chamber Music Palm Beach No. 2
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $20
November 14 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Chamber Music Palm Beach No. 3
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $20
Student Performances
DEAN’S SHOWCASE CONCERTS
An exposition of various delightful solo and chamber works performed exclusively by the Conservatory of Music’s finest young musicians, all chosen by faculty recommendation and guaranteed to impress and inspire.
October 17 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Dean’s Showcase No. 1
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $10
November 21 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Dean’s Showcase No. 2
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $10
February 28 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Dean’s Showcase No. 3
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $10
April 10 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Dean’s Showcase No. 4
Amarnick?Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: $10
Additional Student Performances
October 13 – 9:30 a.m. (Sunday)
Concerto Competition Final Round
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: FREE
Finalists will perform before judges, including Julian Martin, piano (The Julliard School), Eric Ruske, horn (Boston University) and Ilya Kaler, violin (DePaul University). Winners will perform as soloists with the Lynn Philharmonia on November 16-17, conducted by the Philharmonia’s newly appointed Music Director, Guillermo Figueroa.
December 7 – 10 a.m. (Saturday)
Preparatory School of Music Recital
Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
Tickets: FREE
This recital will feature students of all ages and levels as they share their accomplishments in voice, piano and a variety of other instruments.
May 1 – 7:30 p.m. (Thursday)
Class of 2014 In Concert
Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: FREE
A salute to the graduating class as they present one final serenade to the patrons that supported in their pursuit of musical mastery.
May 3 – 10 a.m. (Saturday)
Preparatory School of Music Recital
Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall
Tickets: FREE
This recital will feature students of all ages and levels as they share their accomplishments in voice, piano and a variety of other instruments.
How to Purchase Tickets:
Tickets are available for purchase at the Lynn University Box Office, located in the Wold Performing Arts Center at 3601 N. Military Trail. Tickets also may be purchased online at or by phone at 561.237.9000.
About Lynn University:
Founded in 1962, Lynn University in Boca Raton has five colleges in addition to the Conservatory of Music and a school of aeronautics. The conservatory has grown and earned international acclaim, attracting world-renowned faculty and enrolling approximately 100 talented student-musicians. Its mission – “to provide high quality professional performance education for gifted young musicians, and to set a superior standard for music performance worldwide” – emphasizes its commitment to engaging the Palm Beach County cultural community. With the opening of the new Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center in April 2010, the Philharmonia now performs in its own concert hall on the Lynn campus.
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Chronological List of Concerts & Master Classes
Wold = Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center
A-G = Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall
Boca = Boca Raton Resort & Club, The Great Hall
September
15 Lynn Wind Ensemble ___
19 Palm Beach Chamber Music Concert #1 A-G
26 Guillermo Figueroa Violin Recital Wold
October
3 Collaborative Piano Studio Recital A-G
5-6 Lynn Philharmonia #1 Wold
10 Palm Beach Chamber Music Concert #2 A-G
13 Concerto Competition Final Round Wold
17 Dean’s Showcase #1 A-G
24 Elmar Oliveira Violin Recital Wold
26-27 Lynn Philharmonia #2 Wold
November
14 Palm Beach Chamber Music Concert #3 A-G
16-17 Lynn Philharmonia #3 Wold
21 Dean’s Showcase #2 A-G
December
5 “Great Duos” with Carole Cole, Violin,
and David Cole, Cello A-G
7 Preparatory School of Music Recital Wold
8 Gingerbread Holiday Concert Boca
January
11 Dr. Joyce Zankel Lindorff Fortepiano Recital A-G
16 Mostly Music: Haydn A-G
18-19 Lynn Philharmonia #4 Wold
25 Guest Artist Philip Fowke in Recital,
“The Art of Encore” A-G
26 Master Classes with Philip Fowke A-G
29 4th Annual Collaborative Spotlight: Miami Brass Wold
February
8-9 Lynn Philharmonia #5 Wold
13 Roberta Rust in Recital A-G
19 Elmar Oliveira & the Golden Rule Ensemble Wold
20 Dean’s Showcase #3 A-G
23-26 8th Annual New Music Festival A-G
27 Mostly Mozart: Beethoven A-G
March
20 Michael Ellert Bassoon Recital A-G
22-23 Lynn Philharmonia #5 Wold
30 From the Studio of Roberta Rust A-G
April
3 Mostly Mozart: Eastern European/USA Connection A-G
10 Dean’s Showcase #4 A-G
May
1 Class of 2014 In Concert A-G
3 Preparatory School of Music Recital A-G