Marcia Kämper, flutist

Second Flute, Baltimore Symphony; Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director, ANALOG arts ensemble

Before joining the Baltimore Symphony, Ms. Kämper was a flutist and soloist with the Omaha Symphony. Her Omaha concerto appearances include a live radio broadcast of Leonard Bernstein’s Halil and J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto Nos. 4 & 5 with music director Victor Yampolsky conducting.

Ms. Kämper is an active recitalist with a broad repertoire. A champion of new music, Marcia has several world premieres to her name as well as many performances of major chamber works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, and Morton Feldman.

Marcia is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of ANALOG, a non-profit collective of artists and musicians from around the world. ANALOG arts ensemble makes up a core of avant-garde conceptual artists and musicians that reach out to new audiences and new horizons. Currently, the largest ANALOG project is ARTSaha!, Omaha’s only new-music festival.

Ms. Kämper is also a dedicated audiophile. Her professional experience includes work as an assistant recording producer on several commercial CD's by the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra.

Marcia earned two degrees from Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. She studied with Robert Willoughby and Emily Skala. While in college, she won the Washington DC Flute Club Competition and was twice-awarded the Britton Johnson Memorial Flute Prize. Her childhood acclaim includes concerto performances with the Henderson Civic Symphony, Las Vegas Youth Orchestra, Las Vegas Music Festival, and first prize at the Las Vegas Flute Club Competition. Other teachers include Martha Aarons in Cleveland, Marina Piccinini in Zurich, and Cynthia Man at the Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts.

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Saturday - performed Bach's Musical Offering on an ANALOG concert. Alongside the flute, violin, harpsichord trio were performances by a brass quintet, marimba ensemble, organ soloist and electronic music version - ALL at the same time in acoustically diverse spaces in First Central Church's 150-year old building. Unfortunately I didn't hear the other versions of the Musical Offering, but I had a fabulous time nonetheless performing the trio version with symphony members Chris Hake, violin and Marilyn Kielniartz, harpsichord. Look for an mp3 of the trio sonata in the near future...M3K

Marcia Kämper, flutist

Saturday, August 20, 2005

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