An die Musik: Coffee Patisserie & Classical Music
Online: $10 | In person: $20 ($10 student)
- Katherine Needleman, oboe
- Meng Wang, viola
- Hanchien Lee, piano
Rebecca Clarke — Viola Sonata
Althea Talbot-Howard — Blue Sahara Crossing
Althea Talbot-Howard — The Lost Tribe (world premiere)
Katherine Needleman — qua resurget ex favilla
August Klughardt — 5 Schilflieder ("5 Fantasy Pieces"), Op. 28
Nadia Boulanger — Three Pieces for Cello and Piano (arr. Katherine Needleman)
Attending in person: Coffee and pastries at 10am / Concert at 11am. Valid full-time student ID required at the door for student ticket price.
About Katherine Needleman, oboe
Katherine Needleman joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as principal oboist in 2003, the same year she won first prize at the International Double Reed Society's Gillet-Fox Competition.
A lifelong improviser, she has recorded the Marmalade Balloon, an album of improvised, ambient chamber music with distinguished classical music colleagues as well as synthesizers from the 1960s and 1970s. She started writing music down on paper during the COVID-19 pandemic and won the International Double Reed Society's Inaugural Commissioning Competition with her sonata for oboe and piano. They commissioned her to write a work for English horn and piano which received its premiere in July, 2021, with Alison Teale of the BBC Symphony.
A Baltimore native, Ms. Needleman attended high school at the Baltimore School for the Arts but left early to attend the Curtis Institute of Music. She served on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University for fifteen years and is currently on faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music.
http://katherineneedleman.com/