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Treat yourself to the only classical music series on St. Croix right here at Whim Museum! Listen to the old masters in the intimate, candlelit ambiance of our 250-year-old Greathouse.
Performances Identical concerts are performed on Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 pm. Artist Receptions will be held following the Saturday evening performances in the Museum Store for those purchasing the series package as Friends, Donors, Patrons, or Individual Sponsors.
Reservations Concert seats may be purchased individually or for the entire series. Seats may be switched between Friday and Saturday if availability allows. A portion of the payment is deductible as a contribution to the St. Croix Landmarks Society for Friends, Donors, Patrons, or Individual Sponsors. A letter of receipt will be sent.
Seating Main room seating is guaranteed for all those purchasing the series and is available for those purchasing individual concerts based on advance reservation. Open seating begins one half hour before the performance‹7:00 pm on both Fridays and Saturdays. Patrons and Donors have reserved seating. Doorways of surrounding rooms and our gallery offer additional seating. Call or mail the attached form (p. 15) today for best selection.
Open to all grades in all schools, the St. Croix Landmarks Society offers a free educational hour each month with our visiting Concert Series performers.
LISTEN & LEARN Performance Workshops are held at Island Center on Friday mornings at 10:00am. Dates for this season's Student Workshops are October 21, November 18, January 13, February 10, March 10, and April 7.
Our goal is to broaden musical appreciation by deepening understanding and stimulating imagination. Students will be introduced to world-class performers and a rich musical heritage. These artists love to teach what they know best and will be encouraging interactive student participation.
Let us know you're coming! Make reservations by calling 772-0598 and asking for Marilyn Chakroff, Education Director. We extend the same invitation to our friends at the island¹s Senior Centers.
October 21 & 22, 2005
Friday 7:30 pm Saturday 7:30 pm
Hispanic Heritage Month Special Performance
Anthony Padilla & Sooyeon Kwon-Padilla, Piano Duet
 Anthony Padilla is professor of piano and chamber music and chair of the Keyboard Department at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin. An American pianist of Filipino-Chinese ancestry, Padilla has been recognized internationally as a pianist of remarkable sensitivity, refined interpretation and dazzling technique. He joined the Concert Artists Guild¹s distinguished roster of soloists in 2000 as the top prizewinner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Padilla is a laureate of the Gina Bachauer, Cleveland, William Kapell, and Walter Naumburg International Piano Competitions, and has received major prizes including ones from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the Society of American Musicians, and the Theodore Presser Foundation.
Sooyeon Kwon-Padilla was born in Seoul, Korea to a family of musicians. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at Washington State University, her Master of Music from Northern Illinois University, and her doctorate at the University of Washington. As a winner of concerto competitions, she has been featured as a soloist with the Idaho-Washington Symphony and the University of Washington Philharmonic. She has served on the faculty of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music since 1998.
Anthony and Sooyeon began performing as a piano duet in 1993, and since 1997 have been appearing regularly at the Bay View Music Festival in Michigan and in concert series throughout the U.S.
November 18 & 19, 2005
Friday 7:30 pm Saturday 7:30 pm
Sebastien Koch, Piano
 Winner of the prestigious 2005 Lili Boulanger Award, Sebastien Koch has been hailed as one of the most promising pianists of his generation. Since his triumphant debut with Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto at Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Mr. Koch has given recitals at some of the world's most famous concert halls throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
An outstanding chamber musician, Mr. Koch has collaborated in diverse chamber music formations with world renowned artists such as Don McInnes, Colombia Artist violinist Isabell Faust, Paganini First Prize winner violinist Roberto Cani, Elizabeth Pitcairn, Los Angeles Philharmonic solo clarinetist Lorin Leeve and Concert Artist Guild winner Tim Landauer among others. Mr. Koch has been featured on many nationally televised broadcasts including France, RTL Television, Bulgarian broadcasts and the BBC. He has recorded for Radio France, Sender Freies Berlin, Radio Klassik Amsterdam, Suedwestfunk, KUSC and KMOZART in Los Angeles.
As the only recipient of the prestigious French Lavoisier Scholarship in piano performance of the year 1997, he has completed his Artist Diploma with John Perry at the University of Southern California.
January 13 & 14, 2006
Friday 7:30 pm Saturday 7:30 pm
Barry Green, Bass & Jim Hart, Piano
 Barry Green, a native Californian, served as Principal Bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony for 28 years, and more recently, Principal Bassist of the California Symphony and Sun Valley, Idaho Summer Symphony. He is currently directing a young bassist program for the San Francisco Symphony Education Department, teaches privately at Stanley Intermediate in Lafayette and at the U. of California Santa Cruz and has organized the Northern California Bass Club. Barry is active as a bass soloist, recording artist, author and teacher and has been performing for young audiences in schools in the Bay Area as well as performing bass workshops and concerts on tour throughout the world.
 James Hart is a classically trained pianist, composer, arranger and conductor whose 35 year career has spanned both Europe and the U.S. His eclectic approach to music has given his career much variety. In Germany he was engaged by the Bavarian State Opera, was a professor of music at the Munich Conservatory and was a studio musician at the acclaimed Bavarian Film Works Studios. In Los Angeles he continued his career composing film and television scores. Since 1991, he has been scoring commercials, teaching electronic music, jazz and classical piano and voice and music theory at Xavier University, and performing as pianist and conductor in classical and jazz concerts both here and in Europe. For the past 4 years he¹s also been engaged as principle pianist and acting assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Ballet. Jim has been the leader of his own jazz trio for more than 25 years.
February 10 & 11, 2006
Friday 7:30 pm Saturday 7:30 pm
Celebrating Black History Month
 Joseph Lovinsky, French Horn & Holly Watters, Piano
Joseph Lovinsky is Principal Hornist of The United States Army Band and Orchestra Pershing's Own, The Army Brass Quintet, the Maryland Symphony, and the Washington Ballet. Born in New York City of Haitian parents, he grew up in Miami and began playing horn in the Dade County public school system. Before beginning formal horn studies at the age of 17, he made his Carnegie Hall debut as solo horn of the McDonald¹s All American Band, to critical acclaim. After attending Peabody Conservatory, Joseph continued his studies at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. This led to his appointment as the horn teaching assistant at the Juilliard School where he received the Irving Berlin Fellowship for Outstanding Orchestral Performance. Joseph then served as Principal Horn of the Miami City Ballet Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, and was recently appointed to the faculty at Howard University in Washington DC.
Holly Watters is a pianist and violist with The United States Army Band in Washington D.C. She majored in piano and viola at the Eastman School of Music and the Mannes College of Music. She worked for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra before accepting her current position with The United States Army Band. In 2004 she and her husband were invited by the State Department to tour Ukraine¹s music conservatories in a cultural outreach program. She also collaborates with colleagues to present a yearly chamber music series throughout Washington D.C. and beyond.
March 10 & 11, 2006
Friday 7:30 pm Saturday 7:30 pm
Bernard Lurie, Violin & Natasha Ulyanovsky, Piano
 Bernard Lurie, recently retired Concertmaster of the Hartford Symphony and Connecticut Opera Orchestras, is also retired Full Professor of Violin, Viola, Ensemble, Conducting, and Orchestra Studies at Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Conn. A former member of orchestras in Philadelphia, New Jersey, and throughout New England, Mr. Lurie served many as concertmaster including the Brattleboro Music Festival and the Hartford Music Festival, as well as symphonies in Bristol, New Britain, Waterbury and Meriden. Mr. Lurie has also performed on radio and television. Mr. Lurie presently serves as concertmaster of the Nutmeg and New Britain Symphonies. During the 2004-05 season he appeared as soloist with both orchestras as well as performing several recitals, including touring with tenor, Andrea Bocelli.
 Natasha Ulyanovsky pianist, organist and conductor is a graduate of Odessa Conservatory, of the former U.S.S.R., and further music studies at the Moscow Conservatory, at Speyer Cathedral, Germany and at Queen's College, Oxford. Before emigrating from the U.S.S.R. in 1989 she was an orchestra artist and vocal coach at Odessa Opera House, and concert pianist and organist with Moscow Soyuzconcert the state concert management forprofessional musicians. In 1980 Mrs. Ulyanovsky became a chief organist at Pitsunda Hall of the Abkhazian Republic, where she earned a title of Honored Artist in1988. Mrs. Ulyanovsky also concertized in Hungary, Italy, and throughout New England. In 2004 she appeared in the program Two NationsOne Love at Carnegie Hall, N.Y.
April 7 & 8, 2006
Friday 7:30 pm Saturday 7:30 pm
 The Poulenc Trio: Vladimir Lande, Oboe Bryan Young, Bassoon Irina Lande, Piano € with Anton Lande, Violin
The Poulenc Trio brings together three uniquely gifted virtuosi, oboist Vladimir Lande, bassoonist Bryan Young, and pianist Irina Lande. Combining brilliant 21st-century vibrancy with the best of European instrumental tradition, the trio¹s performances leap beyond the ordinary concert experience, transporting audiences into a world of beautiful sonorities, playful rhythms and dramatic excitement.
Bryan Young is a winner of the Gillet International Bassoon Competition. He has appeared as soloist with the National Symphony and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, as well as in recitals across the United States and around the world. Bryan is principal bassoonist of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and performs regularly with the IRIS Chamber Orchestra in Memphis. He is a member of the Peabody Preparatory faculty.
Pianist Irina Lande is a graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. Winner of the Baltimore Chamber Music Award and the Montpelier Recital Competition, Irina has appeared in series including the Yale Gordon Concert Series, the Bachanalia Recital Series and the New York Times Young Performers Series. Irina is a member of the piano faculty at the Peabody Preparatory.
The principal oboist of the Baltimore Opera and an active solo artist, Vladimir Lande currently serves as faculty at the American University in Washington, DC and University of Maryland in Baltimore. Mr. Lande is also the assistant conductor of the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, the Music Director and Conductor of C.O.S.M.I.C. in Maryland and Principal Guest Conductor of the St. Petersburg Symphony.
Anton Lande has been playing the violin since age six and at present is a student of the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory Department. Anton is also a member of the Preparatory Sinfonietta, Concentus Trio, and has played in the Maryland All-State Orchestra three years in a row. He has won numerous competitions including the Maryland State Music Teachers Association Competition and the Honors Recital at Peabody, the Preparatory¹s most prized competition.
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