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2006 AHS Conference Schedule
| Pre-Conference Schedule | |
| Friday, June 30, 2006 | |
| 2:30-4:30 PM | Registration and Hospitality Open |
| 4:00-10:00 PM | Executive Committee Meeting |
| 7:00 PM | Drawing for Anne Adams Awards Auditions |
| Saturday, July 1, 2006 | |
| 9:00 AM | Exhibits Set Up |
| 9:00 AM | Anne Adams Awards Auditions |
| 9:00 AM-Noon | Executive Committee Meeting |
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Noon-1:30
PM Noon-5:00 PM |
Walking Tour/Lunch (Xanadu Art Gallery & Maiden
Lane) Meet at Hospitality Desk Registration and Hospitality Open |
| 2:00-3:00 PM | Regional Directors Meeting |
| 3:00-4:00 PM | Presidential Advisory Meeting |
| 4:00-5:00 PM | Group Coordinators Meeting |
| 7:00-10:00 PM | Board of Directors Meeting |
| 7:00 PM | Event/Tour Beach Blanket Babylon |
| Conference Schedule | |
| Sunday, July 2, 2006 | |
| 8:00 AM-6:00 PM | Registration and Hospitality Open |
| 9:00 AM-Noon | Board of Directors Meeting |
| 10:00 AM-1:00 PM | Event/Tour City Tour by Motorized Cable Car |
| Noon-6:00 PM | Exhibits Open |
| 1:00 PM | Anne Adams Awards Winners’ Recital |
| 3:00 PM | Annual Membership Meeting |
| 4:00 PM |
Welcoming Reception and Tea Hosted by the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Clara Valley AHS Chapters Reception Music: Laura Simpson |
| 4:30 PM |
AHS Concert Artist Recital Adriana Horne—Winner of the 2005 AHS Concert Artist Award |
| 5:15-6:00 PM | Board of Directors Meeting, seating of new Board |
| 7:30 PM-Geary Theater | Opening Concert-Music of the Pacific Rim |
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María Luisa Rayan-Forero—Argentina
2nd place winner of 1998 and 2001 USA Harp Competition |
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| Julie Ann Smith—USA 2nd place winner of 2004 USA Harp Competition |
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| Naoko Yoshino—Japan Winner of 1985 Israel International Harp Competition |
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9:45-11:00 PM |
Gala Reception Featuring Paul Hurst—USA |
| Monday, July 3, 2006 | |
| 8:00-9:00 AM | Executive Committee Meeting |
| 8:00 AM-5:00 PM | Registration and Hospitality Open |
| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM | Exhibits Open |
| 9:00-10:00 AM | Workshops: Youth Ensemble; Making Transcriptions Work-Yolanda Kondonassis; Sibelius:Beginning Session-Bruce Munson |
| 10:00-11:30 AM | AHS Conference
Master Class with Opening Concert Artists Coaching of the Best of Bay Area Youth Colonial Room-Westin St. Francis |
| 10:30-11:30 AM | Workshops:
Young Adult Ensemble; Sibelius:Advanced Session-Bruce Munson; Multi-Style Improv and Composition-Louise Trotter |
| 11:30 AM-12:45 PM | Event/Tour Walking Tour and Lunch |
| 11:30 AM-1:30 PM | Executive Reception and Luncheon |
| Sign-up Deadline: June 15 | |
| 1:00-2:00 PM | Workshops:
Adult Aficionado; Lever Technique-Natalie Cox Maintaining a Pedal Harp-Mike Lewis; |
| 2:00-4:30 PM | New Music
Concert—West Coast Composers Honoring Marcella DeCray—"Her Contribution to the Harp World" featuring Susan Allen,Courtney Hershey Bress, Karen Gottlieb with Tod Brody, Sonja Inglefield, Valerie Muzzolini with Paul Taub, Laura Porter with Nancy Ayala, and Wendy Tamis |
| 2:30-3:30 PM |
Workshops:
Jazzy Beginnings- Felice Pomeranz Salvi Historical Harps -Anna Pasetti; |
| 4:00-5:00 PM | Workshops:
Latin Techniques-Alfredo Rolando Ortiz; Buying a Pedal Harp-Samuel Milligan with Ed Galchick, Mike Lewis and Peter Wiley; Healthy Harp Playing-Alice Giles/Peter Edgelow |
| 5:00-5:40 PM | Ensembles and
Duos of The Pacific Rim USA/West Coast—"In Memory of John Escosa & Jack Nebergall" featuring Michael Rado and James Pinkerton |
| 7:30 PM-Geary Theater | Chamber Music
Concert Major Orchestral Harpists with Bay Area ties featuring: Julie Lang-Bunzel, Dan Levitan with Victoria Ehrlich, Patty Masri-Fletcher and Isabelle Perrin, Olga Ortenberg—Rakitchenkov with Sergey Rakitchenkov, Douglas Rioth, and Gillian Benet Sella |
9:45-11:00 PM |
Chamber Concert Reception featuring Marimikel Charrier |
| Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 Happy Independence Day! | |
| 8:00 AM-5:00 PM | Registration and Hospitality Open |
| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM | Exhibits Open |
| 9:00-10:00 AM | Workshops:
Youth Ensemble; Harp Music as Therapy-Aileen Kelley; Teaching Smart-Linda Wood Rollo; Jazz Harmonization: Beyond the Basics-Carol Robbins |
| 10:30-11:30 AM | Workshops:
Young Adult Ensemble; New Century Freelancing-Felice Pomeranz; Mozart's Ornamentation-Emily Mitchell |
| 11:00 AM-12:30 PM | Western Region
Performers’ Concert featuring Beverly Colgan with Joe Venuto, Melina Meissner, Janice Ortega, Pacific Arts Trio with Natalie Cox, Dan Reiter, and Angela Koregelos |
| 12:30-1:45 PM | Regional Luncheon |
| 1:00-2:00 PM | Workshops:
Adult Aficionado; Harps & Music of the Pacific Rim-Susan Allen; Make Your Own Arrangements: Beginning Session-Paul Baker; Teaching Musicality-Mary Kay Waddington |
| 2:00-4:00 PM | Ensembles/Duos
of the Pacific Rim Featuring: Asia—The
Pacific Harp Duo Kyo-Jin Lee and Ann Yeung |
| Mexico—SONDOS Janet Paulus and Mercedes Gómez |
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| Australia—Kioloa
Harp Ensemble Alice Giles and the Australian National University Harp Ensemble |
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| 2:30-3:30 PM | Workshops:
Make Your Own Arrangements: Advanced Session-Paul Baker; Improvising Effective Patterns for Healing-Joel Andrews; Hidden Treasures of Poulenc-Julie Lang-Bunzel; Performance Excellence- Dr. Carrol McLaughlin |
| 4:00-5:00 PM | Workshops:
College Perspectives—Lynne Aspnes, Elisabeth Remy Johnson, Gillian Benet Sella, and Ann Yeung; Teaching Beginners Across the Ages-Lynn Taffin, Robbin Gordon-Cartier, and Jessica Siegel |
| 5:00 PM | Lever Harp
Concert featuring: Paraguayan Harp—Alfredo Rolando Ortiz |
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Twin Harps—Diana Stork and
Cheryl Ann Fulton Laura Zaerr |
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| 10:00 PM | Late Night
Concert "Jazz & All That Stuff -A Tribute to Dorothy Ashby" featuring Carol Robbins with Buddy Halligan and Sarah Voynow |
| Wednesday, July 5, 2006 | |
| 8:00 AM-2:30 PM | Registration and Hospitality Open |
| 9:00 AM-1:00 PM | Exhibits Open |
| 9:00-10:00 AM | Workshops:
International Harp Archives-David Day Helping Composers Write for Harp-Dr. Deborah Kavasch |
| 9:00-10:30 AM | Workshops:
Aficionado and Youth Ensembles Dress Rehearsal |
| 9:00 - Noon | Exhibits Open to Chapter
Members |
| 10:30-11:30 AM | Workshops:
Introduction to the Cross Strung Harp-John Metras; Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Legal-Tony Berman; Orchestral Cadenzas- Marcella DeCray, Douglas Rioth, and Olga Ortenberg-Rakitchenkov |
| 11:00-Noon | Aficionado &
Ensemble Concert |
| Noon-1:00 PM |
Western Regional
Harpist Composers in Concert featuring Michelle
Gott, Victoria Jordanova, Jeremy Keppelmann, and
Michelle Sell |
| Noon - 1:00 PM | Workshop: The Benefits of Winning a Competition-Susann McDonald |
Noon - 1:30 PM |
Walking Tour/Lunch (Xanadu Art Gallery & Maiden Lane) Meet at Hospitality Desk |
1:00-2:00 PM |
Informational videos from some of the major harp competitions |
| 1:00-2:00 PM | Workshops:
Harp in Studio and Film-Skaila Kanga; Triple Strung Harps-Cheryl Ann Fulton |
| 2:00-4:00 PM | New Music
Concert—Pacific Rim Composers Catherine Barrett, Su-Ting Hsu, Elisabeth Remy Johnson, Anna Maria Mendieta, Randall Pratt with Jack Van Geem, Helen Webby, and Jieyin Wu |
| 2:00-5:00 PM | Event/Tour—City Tour by Motorized Cable Car |
| 2:30-3:30 PM | Workshop:
The Harp in the Recording Studio-Buddy Halligan |
| 6:30 PM | Buses begin loading for Banquet |
| 7:00 PM | Grand
Finale Banquet—"The Sounds and
Tastes of Asia" featuring:Pre-Banquet
Music: Naomi Kato, harp and Elizabeth Falconer, koto Guest Artist—"Ginger" Cui JunZhi, konghou (Chinese harp) Sign-up Deadline: July 3 |
| Thursday, July 6, 2006 | |
| 9:30 AM-5:30 PM | Event/Tour—All-Day Napa Winery Tour by Motorcoach |