2009 Festival

Opening Concert: Angela Jia Kim

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
$15, $10 students
Praised as an “imaginative interpreter ... beguiling us with fine shadings … a limpid tone … exquisite!” (Fanfare magazine, march 2006), angela Jia Kim opens this year’s festival with a concert of exciting and well- loved piano works from mozart, Beethoven, scarlatti, schubert, and liszt.
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Master Class with Angela Jia Kim

Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:15 a.m.
Boutwells Landing
Free Event
Get a better sense for how professional musicians approach their craft and see some of the region’s most promising young musicians when Angela Jia Kim helps local piano students hone thier skills and take their art to the next level.
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Writing Workshop with Roger Bonair-Agard

Thursday, June 18, 2009 2 p.m. -5 p.m.
Arcola Mills
$15
Poets of all experience levels are invited to learn from Roger Bonair-Agard in this three-hour workshop. A gifted teacher, Bonair-Agard has made it a priority to help other poets develop their art. When not writing or performing his own poetry, Bonair-Agard works with several writing centers in New York City, including Urban Word NYC, a writing and performance resource center for teens, where he is a writing instructor and teacher trainer.
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Tchaikovsky's Seasons: The Russian Year

Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:30 p.m.
The Phipps Center for the Arts
$15, $10 students
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Principal Keyboardist Skip James, former Children’s Theatre Artistic Director Jon Cranney and actress Katherine Ferrand team up to present a multimedia performance that illustrates Tchaikovsky’s sublime vignettes with Russian paintings and poetry from the same period.
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Lecture: The Violence of Memory

Friday, June 19, 2009 2 p.m.
Arcola Mills
Free Event
Join Roger Bonair-Agard for a lecture and discussion exploring memory’s role in artistic creation.
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Meet the Artists: Dinner with Jorja Fleezanis, Michael Steinberg, and Karl Paulnack

Friday, June 19, 2009 5 p.m.
The Lowell Inn
$50 (includes dinner)
Join festival artists Jorja Fleezanis, Michael Steinberg, and Karl Paulnack for a special pre-concert dinner at Stillwater's historic Lowell Inn.
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An Evening with Jorja Fleezanis, Karl Paulnack, and Michael Steinberg

Friday, June 19, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
$25 adults, $18 students
The Minnesota Orchestra’s departing concertmaster and friends will discuss and perform this emotionally stirring work for violin and piano, looking at it through the lenses of both music and poetry.
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Lecture: The Mutable Nature of Metaphor - A Painter and Poet Dissect Each Other's Craft and Process

Saturday, June 20, 2009 2 p.m.
The Phipps Center for the Arts
Free Event
Join master painter Kami Polzin and poet Roger Bonair-Agard for a fascinating look at how different types of artists approach the creative process. In the months before the festival, the artists created new pieces inspired by the other's work and artistic process. Much of the conversation will revolve around the resulting works and what they learned in the process of making them.
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Jazz with the Charles Lazarus Group

Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:30 p.m.
The Phipps Center for the Arts
$15, $10 students
Minnesota Orchestra trumpeter and returning festival artist Charles Lazarus brings his jazz quartet to the Phipps Center for a memorable night of music and poetry with festival host and poet Roger Bonair-Agard.
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Miró Quartet and Matthea Harvey

Sunday, June 21, 2009 4 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church

The critically acclaimed Miró Quartet and poet Matthea Harvey — winner of the prestigious 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award — close the festival with a performance that will interweave music and poetry in three different ways and feature the debut of a new multi-part work by Matthea.
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