Guitarist Tyler Kaiser to perform original compositions in world-premiere Cambiata concert Sept. 30 in the Mitchell

Release Date: 09/20/06

DULUTH, MN –Tyler Kaiser, guitarist and award-winning composer, will perform a concert entitled “Fantaisies & Interludes” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, in the Mitchell Auditorium on campus.  The event is part of St. Scholastica’s 2006-2007 Cambiata Series of concerts.

 

The Fantaisies are compositions by the late classic/early romantic guitarist Fernando Sor (1778-1839). The Interludes are original compositions by Kaiser that explore exotic scales and rhythms. The performance of these works as a complete set will be a world premiere. 

 

Kaiser’s compositions have earned him numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers and the American Composers Forum. He is an adjunct music instructor at St. Scholastica and at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.

 

Tickets will be available at the door; they are $10 for adults and $5 for students age 18 and younger (or with current college ID). All Cambiata performances are open seating. For advance ticket sales, call (218) 723-7000 or (218) 723-6194. All performances are at 7:30 p.m.

 

Buy four tickets for any combination of Cambiata Series concerts and receive a discount of $5 (four adult tickets are $35; four student tickets are $15). Tickets for the entire Cambiata Series will be available at the door on Sept. 30; tickets for all remaining concerts will be available at each subsequent concert. All concerts are in Mitchell Auditorium.

 

The rest of the 2006-2007 Cambiata Series:

 

Carissimi’s “Jephte”

Saturday, Nov. 4

Before there was Handel’s “Messiah,” there was Giacomo Carissimi’s “Jephte.” The St. Scholastica Center for Early Music Orchestra joins with the University of St. Thomas Chamber Singers in a special performance of Carissimi’s beautiful and poignant oratorio. Handel himself paid the highest form of tribute to this 17th-century masterpiece by borrowing from it in one of his own oratorios. Musicians of the Center for Early Music Orchestra will perform on period instruments and Dr. Angela Broeker will direct the Chamber Singers.

 

Handel’s “Messiah” Sing-along

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 19 

FREE ADMISSION

Bring your friends, family and your voice to our 26^th annual sing-along of Handel’s “Messiah.” You provide the singing and the St. Scholastica Center for Early Music Orchestra will accompany you. Shelley Gruskin directs this popular  holiday event. Scores will be available for purchase at the door. 

 

Hobos, Juke Joints, Vaudeville and the Last Breaths of Acoustic Pop

Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007

William Bastian and Friends
Before the era of microphones and recordings, people made their own music to entertain themselves, their families and friends. And before the enhanced profit margins of movies over live performers encouraged vaudeville theater owners to renovate their halls into movie theaters, there was a national vaudeville circuit in the 1920s. It featured “Big Time Acts” touring the country, performing in a variety show format that also featured local talent looking for their big break. Acclaimed tenor William Bastian and friends perform music as it was then, without electronic enhancement and with a sense of the whole room.

 

An Evening of Chamber Music

Saturday, March 3, 2007

LeAnn House and Friends
LeAnn House, on the harpsichord and piano, will be joined by Shelley Gruskin on flute, Penny Schwarze on violin, Ronald Kari on viola and Rebecca Peterson on cello in performing masterpieces by Rameau, Beethoven and Franck.