Marcia Kämper, flutist: Busy chamber music season

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, January 24, 2009

Busy chamber music season

Wow! This should keep me busy for the next few months.

Saturday, February 7, 2009, 7pm

Honfleur Gallery

1241 Good Hope Rd. SE

Washington , D.C. 20020

Marcia Kämper, flute

Maggie Rojas Seay, viola
Todd Thiel, cello

Michael Colquhoun (b. 1951) - Softly Call (1987)
flute/alto flute and viola

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) - Faith and Hope are Playing (1920)
flute and viola

John Harbison (b. 1938) - Trio Sonata (1996)

Hector Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - The Jet Whistle (1950)
flute and cello

INTERMISSION

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) - Duo for cello and viola "With Two Eyeglasses" (1796-7)

Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952) - Mirrors (1997)
flute and cello

Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937) - Trio Op. 40 (1929)

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Sunday, February 22, 2009, 7:30pm

Second Presbyterian Church

4200 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD

Madeline Adkins, violin

Marcia Kämper, flute

William Jenken, clarinet

Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello

Sylvie Beaudoin, piano

Schoenberg, arr. Webern - Chamber Symphony Op. 9

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Sunday, March 15, 7:30pm

Second Presbyterian Church

4200 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD

Marcia Kämper, flute

Jane Marvine, oboe

Mary Woehr, piano

Damase - Trio for flute, oboe, piano

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Saturday, April 4, 2009, 1-4pm

Ginger Cove Community Center

Annapolis, MD

Flute Masterclass

Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra

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Sunday, April 19, 2009, 3pm

Catonsville Presbyterian Church

1400 Frederick Road

Catonsville, MD

Marcia Kämper, flute

Jane Marvine, oboe

Mary Woehr, piano

Damase - Trio for flute, oboe, piano

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Sunday, April 19, 2009, 7:30pm & Sunday, May 10, 2009, 7:30pm

An Die Musik

409 N. Charles St.

Baltimore, MD

ANALOG and Monument Piano Trio

Two Distinct Programs TBD

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Marcia Kämper, flutist

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Busy chamber music season

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