Guest Musicians

Coming in September 2008 - "La Scala to Broadway"

Kitty Karn

Kitty Karn began her career as a professional singer at age 16, singing solos at church services and weddings in her hometown of Albert Lea, Minnesota. Know for her effervescence, warmth and versatility, Kitty is at home singing Opera, Oratorio, Musical Theater, Jazz and Choral music.

Kitty holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN and a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she performed locally with Opera in the Heights, Theatre Under the Stars, Alley Theatre, Stages Repertory Theater, Theater LaB, Main Street Theater, Masquerade Theatre and The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston. She has worked with Houston Grand Opera in several capacities including the HGO Chorus, Opera-to-Go, STARS and Opera New World.

Together with Soprano Julia Kay Laskowski, Kitty has produced, written and performed two childrenÕs shows for Young Audiences of Houston-The Wonderful Women in Opera and Up with Opera. Their most recent collaboration is titled Sold Separately, a hilarious adult comedy that combines glorious singing with clever video production. For further information click here.....



Coming November 2008 - "A Grand Duo"        
Marcia Henry-Liebenow & Brian Dollinger


                                                             

Marcia Henry-Liebenow                                                                                    Brian Dollinger
Violin                                                                                              Double Bass

Marcia Henry Liebenow is Concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra and teaches violin, viola, and chamber music at Bradley University. She leads an active career as a soloist and chamber musician across the United States and abroad. Her performances have been broadcast in Europe and the United States, including National Public Radio's Performance Today. In October 2007 her CD of the Grieg Violin Sonatas with pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi was released by Centaur Records.

In 2006, the ArtsPartners of Illinois honored Marcia for her creative contributions to the community. In 2003, the Illinois American String Teachers Association with NSOA honored Marcia with the "Outstanding Studio Teacher" award. Three times the Bradley Parents’ Association has selected her as a finalist for the Award of Excellence. Her students regularly win concerto competitions, awards, and scholarships, and go on to earn their advanced degrees in performance. In addition to her studio teaching, she developed and coordinates the string chamber music program at Bradley University. She also works closely with the string sections of the Bradley Symphony Orchestra, the Central Illinois Youth Symphony, and oversees her college students in their teaching of younger students. For More Information Click Here.....

Brian Dollinger
Double Bass

Brian Dollinger is the Music Director and Conductor of the Muscatine Symphony Orchestra. He is also the new Music Director and Conductor for the Clinton Symphony Orchestra and continues into his third academic year as Instructor of Double Bass and Conductor of the Bradley Symphony Orchestra at Bradley Unversity in Peoria, Illinois. Other posts he has recently held were as the Assistant Conductor of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra and Ball State University Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the East Central Indiana youth Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, the Marion Philharmonic Orchestra (IN), the Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra (IL), and the Muncie Symphony Orchestra.

As a double bassist, Mr. Dollinger has been a featured soloist with several symphony orchestras. Mr. Dollinger has performed with a wide variety of symphony orchestras across the United States. For More Information Click Here....

 

Coming in April 2009 - "The Classical Clown & Chaplin at the Symphony"

Dan Kamin
Musical Mime

Dan Kamin performs worldwide for theatres, colleges and symphony orchestras. On film, he created the physical comedy sequences for Chaplin and Benny and Joon, and trained Robert Downey, Jr. and Johnny Depp for their acclaimed starring performances. He also created Martian movement for Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! and played the wooden Indian come to life in the cult classic Creepshow 2.

Despite these impressive credits, Dan's artistic beginnings were humble. At age twelve he began his performing career as a boy magician, "bravely struggling," as he puts it, "to entertain hordes of unappreciative, hyper-kinetic children." Attending Carnegie Mellon University to study industrial design, Dan's hopes for a normal life evaporated when he saw the eye-popping movement illusions practiced by master mime Jewel Walker. He promptly became the sorcerer's apprentice.
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