Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of attending bbin娱乐平台’s annual Concerto Competition. Seven students performed solo pieces with piano accompaniment. Works ranged from Vivaldi, Popper, Glazunov, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Fauré, and Mozart. Our student soloists played the recorder, cello, piano, violin, and flute in front of several dozen friends, faculty, and family members. The performances […]
Over the past many months, bbin娱乐平台 Music Instructor Dr. Brett Abigaña has been toiling away in his basement, building bbin娱乐平台 its very own organ — a thing of beauty and a true labor of love. In a note to the bbin娱乐平台 community on April 29, Dr. Abigaña wrote: “We have a lot of very cool […]
I had the pleasure of watching bbin娱乐平台’s annual Concerto Competition on Tuesday. Three students competed, one on saxophone, one on clarinet, and one on violin; they played challenging pieces from Villa-Lobos, Debussy, and Mozart, and did so beautifully. This language appeared at the bottom of the program: “[T]he winner will play their concerto movement with […]