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Bach-Inspired with violist Kathryn Dey
Gunter Theatre
Saturday, May 24 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 25 at 3:00 pm
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major
Henri Casadesus: Concerto in C minor in the Style of J.C. Bach for Viola and Strings
Camargo Guarnieri: Concerto para cordas e percussão
Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite
Revel in the radiant strings as they illuminate Bach’s iconic Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Then, we’ll welcome Principal Viola Kathryn Dey to the stage for some Baroque-inspired brilliance! Katie will enchant us with a concerto by French composer Henri Casadesus, a work deeply infused with the spirit of the Bach family, particularly Johann Sebastian Bach’s son, Johann Christian. Next, we head to Brazil to experience the rhythmic vitality of Brazilian composer Camargo Guarnieri’s Concerto para cordas e percussão, blending strings and percussion in a dynamic fusion of sound. Finally, we conclude with Grieg’s sparkling Holberg Suite, written in the style of eighteenth-century dances.
GUEST
Kathryn Dey, Principal Viola
Originally from Lake Mills, Wisconsin, violist Kathryn Dey is active as a soloist and chamber musician and has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Dey is a Surdna Foundation fellow and was awarded a grant from that organization to study and perform works for unaccompanied viola by Lillian Fuchs. She is the principal violist of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Dey performs regularly with organist David Turner as The Lila Duo, and recent projects include a guest artist residency at the Zanmi Lasante school in Haiti and a series of recitals in Germany. Together, the duo founded the Haiti Music Project, an outreach program connecting musicians in the United States and Cange, Haiti. Through this program, over 2000 instruments have been donated to the École Bon Saveur music program and performing ensembles. Ms. Dey has also served as a program consultant and guest artist at the Palotti School of Music in Belize City, Belize. A dedicated and innovative educator, her teaching has been recognized by the American String Teacher Association, Strings Magazine, Music Teachers National Association, the American Viola Society, the South Carolina Alliance for Arts Education, and the South Carolina Music Educators Association. Students from her studio are now performing and teaching around the world. Ms. Dey has given workshops to teachers and students throughout the United States and is especially committed to building and sustaining rural string programs throughout South Carolina, including Chester, Fairfield, Jasper, Laurens, and Pickens counties. She is a frequent presenter at music teaching conferences and has been recognized nationally for her innovative work in making interdisciplinary connections between the fields of music, creative writing, and acting. Ms. Dey is on the faculty of the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and the Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival and is a co-director of the Eastman School of Music Summer Viola Workshop. She earned degrees in viola performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a student of Sally Chisholm and at the Eastman School of Music, where she served as teaching assistant to John Graham. She has also worked with Heidi Castleman and George Taylor. Ms. Dey speaks fluent German, practices hatha yoga daily, and, together with her husband, cellist Robert O’Brien, has been renovating a historic home in downtown Greenville, SC, for the past twenty-two years.
