LAAC Coffee Concerts sponsored by Audrey Johnson Companies presents 4 concerts featuring top Twin Cities Artists
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Welcome to Chamber Music Lakeville's 2024 16th Season of Coffee Concerts Sponsored by Audrey Johnson Companies at the Lakeville Area Arts Center (LAAC)! Thanks to all the people who have supported the series from the beginning into this 16th season with their attendance, word-of-mouth advertising, and financial support. We're so happy to return to the LAAC with this exciting season of concerts in
2024! All programs will sstart at 2:00 PM on Sunday afternoons, about once a month, between January and May. Here's the Lineup:
Jan. 14, 2024 - Jeremiah Sanders, baritone, and Erica Guo, piano. Program TBA
Feb. 25, 2024 - Bassoonist, broadcaster, Trilloquy podcaster, and "classical agitator" Loki Karuna (formerly Garrett McQueen) created this recital program with pianist Clara Elizabeth Sanders, oboist Carrie Vecchione, and bassist Rolf Erdahl. Includes music of Francis Poulenc, Gernot Wolfgang, Valerie Coleman, and Kendra Harder. Mar. 31, 2024 - Duo Harmonia pianists Pinar Başgöze and Susana Pinto with a narrator and mix of instrumentalists present a family concert including Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" and "Heart-Tales," folktales from Thailand, Turkey, and Portugal for piano four-hands and narrator composed by Mary Prescott, Turgay Erdener, and Mário Franco. May 5, 2024 - 10th Wave Chamber Ensemble presents "Emotionally Resonant," a concert exploring complex emotions via combinations of string quartet, percussion and clarinet. The overall vibe is one of contemplation and emotional connections through various soundscapes. Coffee and refreshments included in ticket purchase. Audrey Johnson Companies are celebrating their 58th anniversary in residential and commercial real estate in Lakeville. In honor of this occasion, they are a Season Sponsor for this 15th season of the Coffee Concerts at the Lakeville Area Arts Center.
05/06/2024
Thanks to 10th Wave Chamber Music Collective for the virtuosity & beauty they presented in their “Emotionally Resonant“ program May 5. It was the perfect conclusion to a strong and varied concert season.
Thanks for the performer and audience enthusiasm and rapport!
We would also like to thank Cornerstone Copy for their donation of print materials, Caribou Coffee for the coffee, the LAAC for staff support and facilities, The Cy and Paula DeCosse Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation, our other generous donors, and especially Audrey Johnson Companies, whose generous support has been a bulwark for this series since its 10th season.
05/05/2024
Our waves will hit your shores at 2:00pm!
10th Wave soundcheck complete!
05/05/2024
Today, May 5, is the day for the 10th Wave recital at 2:00 pm.
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with 5 wonderful performers on 5/5!
(an alert reader caught some publicity released at the end of last season that preliminarily and erroneously listed May 12 as the concert date.)
For those of you who can't make the concert, but want to chip in to support this season's programming, tax deductible contributions can be made out to our Fiscal Sponsor, Friends of the Lakeville Area Arts Center, either by check, DESIGNATED TO COFFEE CONCERTS (lots of other stuff goes on at the arts center too!) mailed to:
Friends of the LAAC
20965 Holyoke Avenue
Lakeville, MN 55044
Hope to see you, live, and in person, at the LAAC this Sun., May 5 for 10th Wave's "Emotionally Resonant" program!
Your generous support helps brings programming and arts to our community and funds future growth. Thank you for your support!
05/03/2024
Learn more about 10th Wave, the dynamic new chamber group featured on this Sunday's 2:00 Coffee Concert at the LAAC.
10th Wave is a 501c(3) musician-led ensemble that collaborates with living, local and/or underrepresented artists to perform high quality programming and connect with the Minneapolis-St. Paul community. We believe music has the ability to create a shared experience; therefore, we are always searchin...
05/03/2024
Here’s the Sun ThisWeek article about our 10th Wave Coffee Concert this weekend.
Come to the Cabaret old and new friends for this season’s closing concert! Door prizes and announcements of next year’s planned lineup will accompany 10th Wave’s “Emotionally Resonant” performance.
10th Wave Chamber Music Collective will present Emotionally Resonant at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 5, at the Lakeville Area Arts Center.
03/31/2024
The animals have taken the stage for Peter and the Wolf!
Concert starts at 2:00.
Coffee’s brewed and ready!
03/30/2024
We’re getting our ducks (and birds, cats, wolves, grandpas, and hunters) in a row for tomorrow’s Peter & the Wolf Family Coffee Concert.
Discount coupon code for students when purchased on line:
CoffeeConcert
See you tomorrow at 2:00 at the LAAC!
03/25/2024
Here's the SunThisWeek article about our Peter and the Wolf Concert, coming up this
Sunday, March 31:
Pianists Pinar Başgöze and Susana Pinto of Duo Harmonia will present a family coffee concert including Prokofiev’s perennial favorite “Peter and the Wolf” at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, Sunday,
03/20/2024
Remember to silence your phones before the Mar. 31 Peter and the Wolf Family Concert so this is less likely to be an automatic response when you hear a familiar tune.
03/20/2024
Despite looming snow, today is Spring!
Duo Harmonia's "Two Butterflies" by Sergio Azeveds is all about springtime. It includes a short tango and waltz for piano, 4-hands, describing butterflies emerging from cocoons and going into nature. It is also a musical tribute to the transformative leadership of Afro-Brazilian priestess Olga de Alaketu, comparing her rise from slavery to leadership to a butterfly's metamorphosis.
Get your wings on!
See you at the LAAC on Sunday, March 31 at 2:00 for Duo Harmonia's Peter and the Wolf Family Concert!
03/10/2024
March 31 is a great time to cry (and laugh and enjoy) Wolf!
Enjoy our Peter and the Wolf (and other musical tales) Family Concert at the LAAC.
Featured artists are Duo Harmonia pianists Pinar Başgöze and Susana Pinto with a narrator and mix of instrumentalists present a family concert including Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" and Portuguese musical folktales "The Bronze Boy" and "Two Butterflies for Olga" for piano four-hands and narrator.
Duo Harmonia will be joined by Julie Johnson, flute, Carrie Vecchione, oboe, Pat O'Keefe, clarinet, Nick Ober, bassoon, Elizabeth York, violin, and Lakeville South Band Director Chad Bieniek, narrator.
Contact the LAAC for info on group discounts for parties of 10 or more at 952-985-4640.
Thanks to host, curator, bassoonist, and narrator Loki Karuna, pianist Clara Elisabeth Sanders, oboist Carrie Vecchione, bassist Rolf Erdahl, audience members, and all of the composers who wrote the music for a memorable recital yesterday!
02/25/2024
Canadian Quartetto Gelato oboist Colin Maier pays and plays tribute to the oboe's Scottish cousin, the bagpipe, in his arrangement of a traditional tune, entitled "The Pipes: Advice from a Misguided Man." Carrie Vecchione hear him perform this fun and virtuosic piece at a recent Quartetto Gelato performance on the Bethlehem Music Series in Minneapolis and asked if she could purchase the arrangement to adapt for OboeBass!. After a few months of immersion in bagpipe style and phrasings, we're thrilled to include this piece on our Feb. 25 concert as the opening fanfare.
02/25/2024
"Margaret Allison Bonds (March 3, 1913 – April 26, 1972) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher. One of the first Black composers and performers to gain recognition in the United States, she is best remembered today for her popular arrangements of African-American spirituals and frequent collaborations with Langston Hughes." (Wikipedia)
Clara Elisabeth Sanders will perform her variations for solo piano, "Troubled Waters," based on the spiritual, "Wade in the Water."
Clara's take on the piece is "Bond's music incorporates the Spiritual tune in a musically sophisticated, yet recognizable way. It resonates with audience experiences on a very deep level. Historically, "Wade in the Water" guided people escaping enslavement. It is a powerful reminder of what it meant to live in that world, as well as what it means today to inhabit and step in troubled waters."
02/25/2024
Canadian composer and guitarist Kendra Harder wrote a "Quirky" trio for oboe, bassoon, and bass that will be performed on the Feb. 25 Coffee Concerts. Loki fell in love with the piece and programmed it to fit the concert personnel and his theme of wonderful music by underrepresented composers. Half the pieces on the concert were composed by women.
A strong advocate, during 2020-2021 Kendra had the life-changing opportunity to work with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra on creating and teaching a pair of online courses about female composers called Musical Herstory. These courses looked at the history surrounding why and how women have been excluded from music making and music textbooks, and their bravery to still compose and perform despite society telling them not to. This research has sparked her interest in feminist musicology, and she will be exploring this passion further in 2023 thanks to SK Arts
About Canadian composer, Kendra Harder
02/25/2024
Ever hear a bassoon and double bass duo? An amazing example appears on this afternoon's Coffee Concerts, performed by headliner bassoonist, Loki Karuna, with bassist Rolf Erdahl.
Gernot is a Grammy-nominated composer who. has a special connection to performers on this program. He wrote this fun, funky, jazzy, rollicking piece for his wife, bassoonist Judith Farmer and bassist Nico Abondolo. Ms. Farmer was Loki's teacher at USC, and Gernot also wrote an arrangement of this piece for OboeBass!, with the bassoon part transferred to English horn.
Valerie Coleman Flutist & Composer composed the musical gem, "American Vein" for OboeBass! through a Classical Commissioning Grant from Chamber Music America. She is one of the most performed living composers and has one of the most impressive performing, composing, and teaching resumes in classical music. American Vein premiered on this series March 1, 2020. OboeBass! The Vecchione/Erdahl Duo will perform selections from this work on the Feb. 25 concert, narrated by Loki Koruna.
Valerie was named NPR's Classical Woman of the Year in 2020, hailed as one of the Top 35 women composers by Anne Midgette, the Washington Post music critic, founded the Grammy-winning Imani Winds. She teaches at the Mannes School of Music and was recently appointed to the composition faculty at Juilliard.
Nest year she will be "Sandbox Composer in Residence" for The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, finishing the year with the premiere of a new composition for the SPCO, conducted by frequent Coffee Concerts performer, William Eddins.
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Official website of Flutist and Composer Valerie Coleman
02/21/2024
Here’s the Sun ThisWeek newspaper article about this weekend’s Coffee Concert.
Hope to see you at the LAAC this Sunday, February 25, at 2 o’clock!
Bassoonist, podcaster, and “classical agitator” Loki Karuna (formerly Garrett McQueen) designed the Feb. 25 Coffee Concert at the Lakeville Area Arts Center with the goal of both featuring music of
02/19/2024
Coming up this Sunday at the LAAC - Loki Karuna and Friends.
The most familiar and popular piece on the program is Poulenc's Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, composed between 1924 and 1926..
The trio was well received at its 1926 premiere in Paris, with the composer at the piano. It is one of Poulenc's most performed and recorded works. Critics have praised the work's depth of feeling, noting touches of Mozartian flavour and echoes of other composers' styles. It is regarded as the first major chamber work by Poulenc.
Loki chose this work because it's a fun and great piece of chamber music that includes the bassoon, and because he appreciates Poulenc's aesthetic. Poulenc was a member of the French composers group, Les Six, who were famous for writing music that expanded the concept of what "Classical Music" could be and who it could be for, by including jazz and popular influences, as well as new subject matter that could have absurd and comic elements.
Here’s the Loki Koruna's Feb. 25 LAAC Coffee Concert info, as posted on the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder events calendar.
is everybody’s history and it’s good to see the great music and musicians spilling out to spread beauty and challenge throughout the year.
Bassoonist, broadcaster, Trilloquy podcaster, and 'classical agitator' Loki Karuna (formerly Garrett McQueen) created this recital program with pianist Clara Elizabeth Sanders, oboist Carrie Vecchione, and bassist Rolf Erdahl. Includes music of Francis Poulenc, Gernot Wolfgang, Valerie Coleman, and
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Welcome to Chamber Music Lakeville's 13th Season of Coffee Concerts Sponsored by Audrey Johnson Companies at the Lakeville Area Arts Center (LAAC)!
We're proud to present another varied season in 2020, with these four concerts featuring some of the top musical talent in the Twin Cities area:
Jan. 12 - Quince vocal quartet
Angelic and energetic, comforting and inciting,
Virtuosically disciplined, and noisy!
March 1 - OboeBass! American Vein
Delightful, award-winning Duo
Carrie Vecchione, oboe, Rolf Erdahl, bass
April 5 - Maithree -The Music of Friendship
Pat O'Keefe, clarinet and Nirmala Rajasekar, veena
Fusing worlds of musical wonder and virtuosity
June 7 - Chamber Music Society of Minnesota
"A jewel in the state's cultural crown."
Dvorak and Mozart Quintets
All concerts take place 2:00 pm Sunday afternoons at the Lakeville Area Arts Center, 20965 Holyoke Ave., Lakeville, MN. Ticket prices are $18 general admission, $15 for students and seniors. Concerts last approximately 90 minutes with intermission and reception. Like us and follow us on this page to keep updated. https://www.facebook.com/coffeeconcerts
We are Twin Cities performers who love to share our love for performing our intimate groups and music with our audiences. Our mission is to bring top area performers together to present a wide variety of types of ensembles and repertoire to the people served by the Lakeville Area Arts Center. Come join us in our very varied Coffee Concert series in the casual, conversational, cabaret concerts at the Lakeville Area Arts Center. All recitals are inviting, informal concerts with cabaret seating and complimentary Caribou Coffee and other refreshments. Articulate performers tell the stories of their music and ensembles from the stage, and meet and mingle with the audience.
As in past seasons, what really makes the music happen is the attendance, enthusiastic word-of-mouth, and financial and in-kind contributions from area businesses, our audience, and the LAAC's incredible staff support and facilities.
Come join the fun through your support and attendance! Share links to our events and invite your friends to come. Please consider what tax-deductible amount you can contribute so this series can continue as one of the gems in Lakeville’s cultural life. Visit this link for various donor levels: http://www.lakevilleartscenterfriends.org/donate/
The Friends of the Lakeville Area Arts Center is the 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that serves as fiscal agent for Chamber Music Lakeville's Coffee Concerts at the LAAC. Thanks for any support you can provide! All levels of contribution are welcome, and acknowledged in our recital programs.
Thanks to Caribou Coffee on Cedar and Dodd for providing our coffee, and to Cornerstone Copy of Lakeville for printing our posters and programs.
Audrey Johnson Companies is celebrating its 54th anniversary in residential and commercial real estate in Lakeville. In honor of this occasion, they are a Season Sponsor for this 13th season of the Coffee Concerts at the Lakeville Area Arts Center.
