[NEohioPAL] FREE MUSIC FACULTY RECITAL at Beck Center, October 11

[Fran Storch]

Beck Center for the Arts
announces
New Music Faculty Members
and presents a
FREE Music Faculty Recital
October 11, 2008 at 3:30 p.m.
Music-Armory Building
Free and open to the public.

Lakewood, Ohio - Beck Center for the Arts is pleased to welcome Cuban
pianist, Javier Gonzalez, and jazz musician, Demetrius Steinmetz to its
Music Department faculty.  Both instructors have extensive performance
backgrounds and will teach in the highly successful Beck Music
Conservatory program as well as in the general studio program.  Gonzalez
and Steinmetz are currently accepting new music students for private
instruction.  To schedule private lessons, please contact the Beck
Center Music Department at 216-521-2540 ext. 37.  
Gonzalez will perform with Beck faculty members - Peter Bush, Amy Hall,
Tara Klein, and Ron Palka;  and guest pianist, Nathan Carterette - at a
Music Faculty Recital on Saturday, October 11 at 3:30 p.m. in the
Recital Hall of the Music-Armory Building at the Beck Center.  Composers
represented on the program include Schumann, Granados, Lecuona, Moleiro,
and Beck's own composer in residence, Dr. Christopher Lee.  Dr. Lee's
complete Sonata for Cello and Piano (2008) will be premiered.  This
recital is free and open to the public.  Beck Center for the Arts is
located just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland at 17801 Detroit
Avenue in Lakewood.  Free on-site parking is available.
The Beck Center Music Department offers private lessons in voice, piano
and all band and orchestral instruments.  The Music Conservatory offers
an opportunity for exceptional students to increase their level of
education and prepare them for acceptance to the finest colleges and
universities in the country.  It is a unique and intensive course of
study that offers college preparatory instruction, as well as
performance opportunities.  In addition, the Music Department offers
classes in voice, music theory, early childhood music, Suzuki violin,
and Dalcroze Eurhythmics.  The Beck Center Youth Choirs program includes
five separate choirs involving over 200 students from kindergarten
through ninth grade.  
For more information about this recital or the Music program at the Beck
Center, please call the Music Department at 216-521-2540, ext. 37 or
ext. 38.  A complete fall class catalog is available online at
www.beckcenter.org. 
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ABOUT THE FACULTY

Peter Bush baritone (voice) B.M. Ithaca College School of Music; M.M.
Cleveland Institute of Music.  Associate artist with Opera Cleveland on
Tour.  Member Cleveland Opera Chorus.  Studied in Vienna, Austria.
Member voice faculty Cuyahoga Community College, west campus. 

Javier Gonzalez (piano) B.A. University of Arts in Havana, Cuba, pursued
graduate studies at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Frequent local
and international performer as a soloist and with various orchestras.

Amy Hall  soprano (voice) B.M. Voice and B.S. Music Education, Ball
State University; M.M. University of Akron; P.S. Cleveland Institute of
Music. Performs regularly in opera and with orchestra/instrumental
groups.  Associate artist with Cleveland Opera on Tour.  Studied in
Italy and Austria. Teaching experience with all ages.  Studies with Mary
Schiller.

Tara Klein (cello) B.M. Cello Performance, University of Michigan, M.M.
Cello Performance, University of Miami (Florida).  Professional Studies
Diploma, Cello Performance, Cleveland Institute of Music.  Member of the
Akron Symphony.  Teachers include Richard Aaron, Ross Harbaugh, Anthony
Elliott, Louis Potter, and Tanya Carey (Suzuki teacher training).
Certified in the Suzuki cello method, also incorporates traditional
pedagogy.  Teaching experience includes all ages and levels.

Ron Palka (piano) M.M. Performance, Manhattan School of Music; B.M.,
M.L.S. Kent State. Performance, Queens College, New York. Taught and
performed locally, New York and Brazil. Solos with Parma Symphony,
Suburban Symphony, Summer Symphony of Queens, Horizon Concerts, NYC and
Access to the Arts, Cleveland. Students include prize winners in Canton
Symphony and OMTA compositions. Music Director, Church of the Epiphany.
Member of The Double Digit Piano Duo with pianist, Coren Estrin Mino.
Member OMTA. 

Demetrius Steinmetz (bass, electric bass, saxophone, jazz) M.M. Bowling
Green State University. Faculty member of Cuyahoga Community College,
freelance musician throughout Northeast Ohio with numerous jazz
ensembles.
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