Klarinet Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 2008/09

From: "Mike Vaccaro" <mike@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Oskar Espina Ruiz recital and masterclass in Irvine, CA Sunday, Sept. 28
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:26:20 -0400

I hope you will remind us of this as it gets closer. Thanks.
Mike Vaccaro
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From: "Margaret Thornhill" <clarinetstudio@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:21 PM
Subject: [kl] Oskar Espina Ruiz recital and masterclass in Irvine, CA
Sunday, Sept. 28

> This is an announcement of a recital and masterclass by Spanish
> clarinetist OSKAR ESPINA RUIZ, accompanied by pianist, Yoojung Chung,
> Sunday, October 28, at 3PM in the lovely "Good Shepherd Chapel" of
> Concordia University, Irvine, California. Admission and parking are free.
> Concordia University is located just west of the 405 freeway, at the
> Jeffrey Road/University Drive exit. (directions: www.cui.edu )
>
> Ruiz's program is entitled "Caprice Basque" and is supported by the Basque
> Government Department of Culture. Works include Mr. Espina Ruiz's own
> arrangements of:
>
> Zortziko de Iparragirre Op. 39 (1898), by Pablo de Sarasate; Habanera Op.
> 21, No. 2 and Piece en forme de Habanera by Maurice Ravel; Homenaje a
> Navarra, sobre disenos de Sarasate, by Joaquin Turina; Sonata by Enrique
> Granados; Suite (1929) by Fernando Remacha; and Caprice Basque, Op. 24
> (1881) by Pablo de Sarasate.
>
> After the recital, Mr. Espina Ruiz will work with four young clarinetists
> in a masterclass.
>
> *Oskar Espina Ruiz* has appeared as soloist with the St. Petersburg State
> Academic Symphony, St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica
> de la Ciudad de Asunción and Bilbao Symphony. His recital appearances
> include Carnegie’s Weill Hall in New York, the Corcoran Museum in
> Washington DC, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Oji Hall in Tokyo, the Madrid
> Royal Superior Conservatory, the Beijing and Shanghai Conservatories and
> Radio Television Hong Kong. He has recorded for the Kobaltone and Prion
> labels. His solo recordings include “Abriendo Fronteras”, “Basque Heart”
> and “Julián Menéndez Rediscovered”.
>
> He won top prizes at the Olga Koussevitzky and Artists International
> competitions in New York in 1999; he was the Thayer Fellowship runner-up
> and top music finalist in 2003; and he won the first prize of the
> International Clarinet Association Research Competition in 2006. His
> academic writing includes an article in the March 2007 issue of “The
> Clarinet” magazine.
>
> He holds a Doctor in Musical Arts diploma from SUNY, Stony Brook and a
> Master in Fine Arts diploma from Purchase College Conservatory of Music,
> where his major teachers were Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima. He has
> also studied with flutist Aurèle Nicolet while at the European Mozart
> Academy. The Russian press has described his concerto performance as
> “highly expressive, perfect in all the details and virtuosically
> executed.” The Japanese press has highlighted his “extremely advanced
> technique and passion.” The Costa Rican press has called him a “masterful
> soloist” and the Paraguayan press has written: “Through bewitching
> vibrancy and expressiveness Oskar Espina Ruiz brings forth the notes with
> an energy that reaches down to one's soul.”
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