The Carleton College Orchestra will perform its annual spring concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 28, in the Carleton Concert Hall. The concert program will feature the winner of the Concerto Competition, Carleton senior Hale Jacob, performing Mozart’s final piano concerto. The concert is free and open to the public.
Jacob feels especially drawn to Mozart’s final piano concerto because she feels the piece is introspective and romantic. “It goes beyond the innocent playfulness and simplicity often associated with Mozart’s music,” says Jacob. A music major, Jacob has studied piano for nearly 16 years, cello for eight years, violin for five years and has recently begun playing the harpsichord. At Carleton, she has studied under Birdie Cloak, Greg Dempster, and Yumiko Oshima-Ryan.
Hector Valdivia, the S. Eugene Bailey Director of the Carleton Orchestra and associate professor of music at Carleton, directs the orchestra. He also coordinates the College’s string and chamber music programs. Founder of the Veblen Trio, he holds degrees from the Yale School of Music and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His teachers include Sidney Harth, Otto-Werner Mueller and Tyrone Greive. An active recitalist and chamber musician, Valdivia also has served as concertmaster of the Williamsport Symphony, the Washington-Idaho Symphony and has been the guest conductor of several all-state orchestra festivals in Washington, Pennsylvania and New York. Valdivia recently completed and recorded “Variations on Balkan Themes” by Amy Beach with the Moravian Philharmonic of the Czech Republic.
For more information and disability accommodations, call the Carleton music department at (507) 646-4347.