The Seattle Series: Demarre McGill & Rodolfo Leone
$55 general ($40 ages 25 & under, $20 Flute Student), $65 reserved-section seating
- Demarre McGill, flute
- Rodolfo Leone, piano
Lowell Liebermann — Flute Sonata, Op. 23
William Grant Still — Three Songs for Flute and Piano
Yuko Uebayashi — Flute Sonata
One of the world's leading flutists, Demarre McGill, will be joined by the exciting, award-winning pianist Rodolfo Leone for a one-night-only event in the intimate ballroom of the Women's University Club of Seattle.
Cash bar service and complementary coffee and tea will be available preceeding the concert and at intermission, and a champagne reception with the artists will conclude the evening.
The Seatte Series brings outstanding artists together to create memorable music for a social, life-affirming event.
Please review The Seattle Series' COVID-19 protocols before attending this event; details available here: https://theseattleseries.org/information/
About The Seattle Series
The Seattle Series is a chamber-festival-meets-recital series, featuring ad hoc combinations of awe-inspiring artists who perform together for one evening to create a magical moment in time. Outstanding Seattle artists are given the opportunity to invite their colleagues from around the nation and globe to join them for a unique collaboration, unavailable elsewhere.
http://theseattleseries.orgAbout Demarre McGill, flute
One of the world’s leading flutists, Demarre serves as Principal Flute of the award-winning Seattle Symphony as well as Associate Professor of Flute, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His many appearances span the continent and include concerto, recital, chamber festival, and National Flute Society Featured-Artist engagements.
As an educator, Demarre has performed, coached, and presented master classes in South Africa, Korea, Japan, Quebec, and throughout the United States; appeared as speaker and performer at the 2018 League of American Orchestras Conference with his brother, clarinetist Anthony McGill; and has served on the faculties of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States, the National Orchestral Institute (NOI) at the University of Maryland, the Orford Music Festival, and Summerfests at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Mr. McGill is a graduate of Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School.
https://www.demarremcgill.com/About Rodolfo Leone, piano
The brilliant 29-year-old Italian-born pianist Rodolfo Leone, whose career is supported by the Amron-Sutherland Fund for Young Pianists at the Colburn School, was the first-prize winner of the 2017 International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna. Described as “a true sound philosopher” (Oberösterreichische Nachrichten), Rodolfo released his debut album on the Austrian label Gramola in May 2018. T he all-Beethoven disc features two pillars of the piano repertoire: the “Hammerklavier” Sonata and the “Waldstein” Sonata. His playing has been described as having “impeccable style” and “absolute technical control” (Il Nuovo Amico).
Rodolfo’s recent seasons include a collaboration with James Conlon and LA Opera and debuts with the San Diego Symphony (Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1), Pasadena Symphony (Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21), and Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra (Beethoven’s Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”); he also performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in Walt Disney Hall under the baton of Xian Zhang.
A native of Turin, Italy, Rodolfo has performed extensively throughout Europe, North America, and China, including debuts in venues such as the Musikverein Vienna, Steinway Hall London, Music Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing, Politeama Theatre, Mozart Concert Hall of Accademia Filarmonica, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, and the BASF Gesellschaftshaus in Germany. Awarded top prizes at the 2014 Toronto International Piano Competition and the 2013 Busoni International Piano Competition, Rodolfo’s concerto performance during the 2017 International Beethoven Piano Competition was described by Pianist magazine as a “communion with the orchestra” that “was raptly convincing… robust and joyful.”
Currently based in Los Angeles, Rodolfo holds both a Master of Music degree and an Artist Diploma from Colburn Conservatory where he studied with Fabio Bidini. He previously studied at the Hans Eisler School of Music in Berlin, Germany, and the G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, Italy.
https://rodolfoleone.com