Santa Barbara Music Club 2012 Scholarship Winner Showcase Recital I - Santa Barbara ~ Sat. 6/2, 3pm - Just Looking?
EVENT: Sat. June 2, 2012, 3pm WHERE: Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St. (at Anacapa St.), Santa Barbara.
Info. Admission is FREE, call 687-5537, info@sbmusicclub.org, web; www.SBMusicClub.org
The Santa Barbara Music Club's 42nd season of presenting admission-free chamber music concerts for the community is crowned with its annual Scholarship Showcase Recitals in June featuring seventeen of this season's twenty-five Santa Barbara Music Club scholarship award recipients.
The 2012 SBMC Scholarship Committee heard a record 44 students, between the ages of 9 and 24, audition on Sat., Mar. 17. The decision deliberations were challenging! Open to talented instrumental and vocal students from Santa Barbara County, the competitive SB Music Club Scholarship Program presents aspiring students with the opportunity for financial support in their music studies as donated by our generous supporters. Awardees also receive honorary SBMC membership for the 2012-2013 year.
JUNE 2, 2012 at 3 PM, Faulkner Gallery - PROGRAM
RAVEL/arr. E. Valinsky - Menuet sur le nom d' Haydn
BERNSTEIN - Rondo for Lifey
Nikolas Valinsky, trumpet (19 yrs)
ROMBERG & HAMMERSTEIN - Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise, from The New Moon
Aaron Dutton, alto saxophone (18 yrs)
PUCCINI/arr. P. Toscano - Quando m'en vo, from La Boheme
Harrison Sulit-Swalley, trumpet (18 yrs)
BELLINI - Dolente immagine di Fille mia
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - The Vagabond, from Songs of Travel
David Childs, baritone (17 yrs)
BRUCH - Kol Nidrei, Op. 47
Nicolas Sterner, cello (18 yrs)
JS BACH - Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: Bourree I, II and Gigue
Sarah Shasberger, viola (21 yrs)
CHAMINADE - Concertino, Op. 107
Jessica Kozachuk, flute (18 yrs)

This afternoons program will open with regal playfulness as 19-year-old trumpet player, Nikolas Valinsky performs Ravel/s Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn and Leonard Bernstein's Rondo for Lifey (Lifey was actress Judy Holliday's Skye Terrier), supported on piano by his father, Erik Valinsky. Nikolas is a 2012 graduate of San Marcos High School and will be heading to Oberlin College, Ohio to continue his music studies.
Aaron Dutton, alto saxophonist, also a 2012 San Marcos HS graduate, performs Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise, from The New Moon in a jazz idiom with
Erik Valinsky on piano. Throughout his high school years, Aaron was a recipient of many honors as a jazz soloist and a member of ensembles at SMHS.
Aaron is headed off in Fall 2012 to the much noted jazz studies program at the University of North Texas in Denton.
Trumpet player Harrison Sulit-Swalley, a 2012 graduate of SB High School with additional course study at SBCC, performs an arrangement of Puccini's
beloved Quando men vo, from La Boheme, assisted by Fernanda Douglas (also a SBMC scholarship winner in voice). Harrison will be pursuing a
combination jazz/classical/music therapy program at the Berklee School of Music in Boston in Fall 2012.
David Childs, baritone, who recently was the lead in San Marcos HS' production of "Kiss Me, Kate", will sing two arias this afternoon: Bellini's Dolente
immagine di Fille mia, followed by Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Vagabond, from Songs of Travel. A private student of UCSB Prof. Benjamin Brecher,
David will begin his B.M. in Vocal Performance at UCLA in Fall 2012.
Nicolas Sterner, cellist and a 2012 Dos Pueblos HS graduate, will be off to Wheaton College in Massachusetts in Fall 2012 to pursue studies in music and the humanities. Nicolas will perform Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 of Max Bruch.  Bruch's Kol Nidrei (meaning "all vows" in Hebrew) does in fact draw on two Jewish themes treated to variations; the first of the themes is drawn from the Yom Kippur service text.
Violist Sarah Shasberger will perform several movements from JS Bach's Cello Suite in C Major. Sarah has been a student of UCSB's Helen Callus while
completing her B.M. at Westmont College. In the fall, she will commence a M.M. at the University of Hartford in viola performance and violin Suzuki
pedagogy.
Jessica Kozachuk
Closing the Showcase Recital this afternoon is flutist Jessica Kozachuk with a favorite flute competition piece, Cecile Chaminade's Concertino, assisted by pianist Anne Weger. Jessica has been also a member of the SMHS Madrigals and the SB Youth Symphony, the latter for which she was also a concerto winner and thus performed the Chaminade last fall at the Lobero Theatre with the SBYSO. Graduating this month from San Marcos High School, Jessica will be beginning her college career at Westmont College in Fall 2012.
About the Santa Barbara Music Club
A valued cultural resource in the community since 1969, the Santa Barbara Music Club's bi-monthly chamber music concerts are presented to the community free of charge and feature Performing
Members of the Santa Barbara Music Club, which encompass advanced amateurs, as well as professional musicians, excelling collegiate students (including SBMC Scholarship Winners), and collegiate faculty members (Westmont College, UCSB, amongst others), generally from Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
 Professional performers who have appeared on the SBMC series include international concert pianist Zeynep Uchbasaran; Artistic Director/Founder of Camerata Pacifica, flutist Adrian Spence; Emeritus Professor of Music, UCSB, pianist Dr. Betty Oberacker; and Helen Callus, esteemed viola faculty at UCSB. The SBMC Program Committee assembles varied programs for its audiences, featuring outstanding performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles.
Additionally, the SBMC supports an annual music scholarship competition for talented Santa Barbara County youth, as well as another chamber music series which serves various retirement communities throughout Santa Barbara.