Hello Everyone,

The 2008-2009 HCC Concert Season will begin with a Jazz Trio Concert on Sunday,
September 14 at 4:00pm in the Monteabaro Recital Hall, Horowitz Visual and
Performing
Arts Center. Our 2008-2009 season has music for all music lovers: classical,
jazz and
folk. Please see the complete listing below for all the concerts happening this
September
to December. I will also send out reminder for each concert as the concert
draws near.
Hope to see you at the concert!

Hsien-Ann Meng



Horowitz Center for the Visual and Performing Arts
Monteabaro Recital Hall
Howard Community College
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD 21044
Horowitz Center Box Office 410-772-4900
www.howardcc.edu/music


Alan Blackman Jazz Trio
Sunday, Sept. 14 at 4:00pm
Alan Blackman, jazz piano
Tom Baldwin, bass
Ferenc Nemeth, drums
Program will be a unique blend of improvisational music ranging from the Beatles
to
Brahms to original compositions.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Little Patuxent Opera Institute Alumni in Arias, Art Songs & Duets
Saturday, Sept. 20 at 7:30pm
Nedje Michelle Douyon, soprano
Lisa Dodson, soprano
Charles T. Hayes, guest pianist
Come enjoy a night of beautiful music sung by alumni of the Little Patuxent
Opera
Institute. Program includes art songs by Strauss, Walton, Burleigh, Faure and
gorgeous
soprano duets such as Delibes' Flower Duet from Lakme and Mozart's Sull'aria
from Le
Nozze di Figaro.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Michael Raitzyk in Concert
Sunday, Sept. 21 at 4:00pm
Michael Raitzyk, jazz guitar
Guitarist Michael Raitzyk will bring his trio to HCC to perform a mixture of
oringinal music
and standards by such jazz greats as John Coltrane, Bud Powell and cotemporary
composers such as John Scofield and Pat Metheny.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


HCC Faculty Jazz Quintet
Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 7:30pm
Kyle Coughlin, saxophone
Todd Butler, trumpet
Alan Blackman, piano
Amy Shook, bass
Tom Williams, drums
The HCC Faculty Jazz Quintet is a newly formed ensemble that will perform at
schools,
community events and at Howard Community College. This concert will feature
original
compositions by members of the quintet.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Han Trio
Saturday, Oct. 11 at 7:30pm
Yoon Nah Cho, cello
Ae-Young Sun, violinist
Jeong-Yoon Choi, guest pianist
Program includes Piano Trios by Schubert, Bramel and more.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Baroque Music & Art Songs
Saturday, Oct. 18 at 7:30pm
Peter Lee, guest tenor/counter tenor
Wei-Der Huang, piano
Cindy Yi-Hsin Lin, violin
Sheng-Tsung Wang, violin
Joan Bob, viola
Benjamin Myers, cello
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Alan Blackman & Vardan Ovsepian
Sunday, Oct. 19 at 4:00pm
Recognized for his fondness for bringing European classical and other outside
influences
to jazz improvisation to create music both elegant and uniquely his own,
Armenia-born
pianists Vardan Ovsepian collaborates with HCC's very own jazz faculty, Alan
Blackman in
this concert of jazz piano duo.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Sangmi Yoon Piano Recital
Saturday, Oct. 25 at 7:30pm
Pianist and HCC music student scholarship recipient Sangmi Yoon will be giving a
solo
piano recital performing Bach E flat major Prelude and Fugue from the
Well-Tempered
Clavier Book II; Beethoven's "Les adieux" Piano Sonata, Op. 81a; Chopin Fantasy
in F minor,
Op.49; and Barber Piano Sonata, Op. 26.
Admission is free.


Tom Benjamin & Friends
Sunday, Oct. 26 at 3:00pm
Tom Benjamin and Friends: The HCC/UUCC/Peabody Connection.
Featuring Tom
Benjamin
and the Jazz Program of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation
of
Columbia's Music
Ministry. Performing will be the Chalice Messengers
quintet, the Chalice
Swingers jazz
vocal ensemble and a few of the Chalice
Chanteusies, in a program of jazz
classics,
originals and show tune standards from the 1920's to the present.
Free


HCC Music Faculty Gala Concert
Saturday, Nov. 1 at 7:30pm
3rd annual HCC music faculty gala concert in commemoration of the grand opening
of the
Monteabaro Recital Hall.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Victorian Jewels
Sunday, Nov. 2 at 4:00pm
Jared Denhard, trombone, double-belled euphonium, highland pipes and ukulele
Baltimore Victorian Consort
Program includes sentimental waltzes, rollicking music, hall novelties,
brilliant theme and
variation fantasies and more.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Musical Kaleidoscope: An Evening of Chamber Music by the Great Masters
Saturday, Nov. 8 at 7:30pm
Sheng-Tsung Wang, violin
Cindy Yi-Hsin Lin, violin/viola
Hsiu-Hui Wang, piano
Benjamin Myers, cello
Program includes works by Leclair, Beethoven, and Brahms.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Blackman & Raitzyk Jazz Concert
Sunday, Nov. 9 at 4:00pm
Alan Blackman, jazz piano
Michael Raitzyk, jazz guitar
In the tradition of Bill Evans/Jim Hall and Pat Metheny/Brad Mehldau,
jazz
faculty members
Alan Blackman and Michael Raitzyk explore the sonic
territory of the jazz
piano/guitar duo
setting. Come enjoy an evening of
original songs and jazz standards in
this unique setting!
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Kuei-I Wu and Friends
Sunday, November 9 at 7:30pm
Kuei-I Wu, piano
Tao-Chang Yu, guest violinist
Lukasz Szymer, guest cellist
Program includes music by Schubert, Piazzolla and Schoenfield
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Yoon Nah Cho Cello Recital
Saturday, Nov. 15 at 7:30pm
Yoon Nah Cho, cello
Jeong-Yoon Choi, guest pianist
Program includes works by Beethoven, Chopin and Franck.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Americana Music
Sunday, Nov. 16 at 4:00pm
Octtava Piano Duo
Wei-Der Huang, pianist
Hsien-Ann Meng, pianist
The concert features two piano works by American composers: Copland, Gershwin,
and
Barber.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


Cindy Yi-Hsin Lin Violin Recital
Saturday, Nov. 22 at 7:30pm
Cindy Yi-Hsin Lin, Violin

Pei-Rong Lo, Piano

Program includes works by J.S. Bach, Enescu, Schnittke.
Admissions $5, $10, $15


HCC Jazz Ensemble
Monday, Dec. 1 at 7:30pm
Directed by Alan Blackman
Admissions $5


HCC Music Department Student Concert
Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 2 and 3 at 7:30pm
Solo performances by students of the Music Department.
Free


HCC Chamber Music
Thursday, Dec. 4 at 7:30pm
Coordinated by Benjamin Myers
Performances by HCC Chamber Orchestra, HCC Cello Ensemble, and various
instrumental
ensembles.
Admissions $5


Jane Winer Chamber Concert
Friday, Dec. 5 at 7:30pm
Jane Winer, clarinet
Joan Bob, viola
Wei-Der Huang, piano
Program includes Max Bruch Eight Pieces Opus 83 for clarinet viola and piano and
Georges
Bizet---Au fond du temple saint from Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers).
Free


HCC Singers & HCC Senior Choir
Sunday, Dec. 7 at 4:00pm
HCC Singers directed by Judith Cavendish
HCC Senior Choir directed by Rita Mayhew
Admissions $5


Jane Winer Chamber Concert
Friday, Dec. 12 at 7:30pm
Jane Winer, clarinet
Yoon Nah Cho, cello
Hsien-Ann Meng, piano
Program includes music by Beethoven and Glinka
Free