Current Projects
1. Chamber Music ff - Fergus Falls, MN
Director of "A Center for the Arts in Fergus Falls" gave me a wonderful opportunity to run a newly created chamber music series, entitled "Chamber Music ff". It is a series of fun and innovative chamber performances featuring intimate venues around Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Chamber Music ff is made possible by a “Challenge America: Reaching Everywhere” grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, helping us to bring you musicians from around the region and beyond.
Saturday September 12 at 7:30pm
Center for the Arts
Corky Siegel Chamber Blues
Sonic Boomer harmonica genius and soulful svengali, Corky Siegel brings his Chamber Blues to showcase at A Center for the Arts. Corky brings brilliant virtuoso violinist Aurelien Fort Pederzoli, who hails from France, Ramsey Lewis Trio alum on percussion, Frank Donaldson, Chihsuan Yang master of violin and Chinese erhu, Jill Kaeding, who honed her chops on cello playing with jazz and classical greats alike, and Doyle Armbrust, who recently performed solo on viola in concert with Pierre Boulez. Delightful surprises are sure to abound around every magical corner!
Sunday October 11 at 2 pm
Legacy Hall at the M-State College
Concordia Wind Quintet and Jihye Chang, piano
Have you heard a woodwind quintet? Have you heard a woodwind quintet plus piano? We invite you to come and share an afternoon with this unusual yet beautiful combination, featuring two sextets for woodwind quintet and piano by Francis Poulenc and Ludwig Thuilles. Also a fun comparison between the piano solo version and the woodwind quintet version of G. Ligeti’s “Bagatellen!” The Concordia Wind Quintet brings together the talents of Concordia faculty members and FM Symphony musicians Debora Harris, flute; Jennifer Peterson, oboe; Russell Peterson, bassoon; Leigh Wakefield, clarinet; and Karin Wakefield, horn.
Saturday November 21 at 4pm
Prairie Wetland Learning Center
8th Street Quartet
Imagine being able to gaze out onto the beautiful prairie wetlands through spacious windows while witnessing a fantastic string quartet performance at the same time –that’s what you will have with the third concert of our series! FM Symphony members Jane Capistran, Elise Buffat Nelson, Tim Nelson, and the FM Symphony’s concertmaster Benjamin Sung have played together as a quartet since 2007. They will present a program of Haydn’s “Lark” and “Sunrise” quartet and Steve Reich’s “Different Trains,” a quirky combination that suits the venue perfectly.
Sunday February 28th at 3pm
Yvonne Hanley’s House – meet at the Center for the Arts
Virginia Sublett, soprano; Elizabeth Chausse, flute; and Jihye Chang, piano
Chamber music was originally intended for performance in a chamber – a room in someone’s house - and that’s what we are doing in this concert! Yvonne has a warm, inviting home with great acoustics and a beautiful grand piano. Chamber music could not be any more intimate than this. Along with pianist Jihye Chang, NDSU faculty members Virginia Sublett and Elizabeth Chausse will transform Yvonne’s living room with a fun and imaginative concert, including music inspired by nature and animals.
Friday March 26 at 7:30pm
M State College Theatre
Around the world with the Arsenal Trio
Go on an international journey without ever leaving Fergus Falls! The Arsenal Trio will be your tour guide, with stops in America’s Dixie Land, Mexico’s Chichen Itza, and the Russian heartland. Cellist Hrant Parsamian joins Benjamin Sung, violin, and Jihye Chang, piano, to bring you works by Paul Schoenfield, David Dzubay, and Peter I. Tchaikovsky.
Saturday March 27 at 4pm
Federated Church
A Children’s Concert with Arsenal and Friends: “Musical Zoo”
The Arsenal Trio is joined by violist Tim Nelson, bassist Dave Hoverson, and soprano Virginia Sublett for a festive “Musical Zoo.” This free concert will captivate and inspire children of all ages (and we mean all!) with different composers’ musical portraits of some of your favorite animal friends, including Trout, Swan, Donkey, Giraffe, Elephant, Bull, and Bumble Bee.
2. Recording Project - using the Aaron Copland Fund's Recording Grant
Violinist Benjamin Sung and I received a recording grant from the Aaron Copland Foundation. We will record four pieces by young American composers, and three of them were written for us. Here are the list of pieces:
* Christian Gentry, Flux-Flummoxed (with the Barlow Endowment Commissioning
Grant/ written for Jihye Chang and Benjamin Sung)
* Curtis Hughes, Insult to an Injury
* Derek Johnson, Fragments (written for Jihye Chang and Benjamin Sung)
* Sean Shepherd, Sonata (written for Jihye Chang and Benjamin Sung)
3. New American Music Concert Series
Violinist Benjamin Sung and I launched a concert series titled "New American Music" in 2008. We performed music by David Dzubay, Steve Rouse, Derek Johnson, and Justin Merrit for the concert #1. In April 2010 we will do a recital with music by Christian Gentry, Leonard Bernstein, and William Kroll.
4. Liszt-Paganini Project with Violinist Benjamin Sung
2011 is the Liszt Bi-Centennial Year, and Ben and I are invited to present a recital of Liszt Paganini etudes and Paganini caprices that inspired Liszt at Concordia College Liszt Festival. This will be an amazingly fun challange for both of us, and we plan to bring this program to other schools and festivals, including Jamestown College, ND.
5. Studio 2021 - Performer's Studio in December 2009 and June 2010
Studio 2021 is Seoul National University's New Music Series, and I have been very lucky to be invited several times as a guest performer of the series along with Ben. We conducted a series of lecture, workshop, and concert and premiered six works by student composers in December 2009. The topics for December lecture/ workshop included notation, extended violin techniques, extended piano techniques, idiomatic piano writing, and rehearsal techniques for young composers. In June 2010, Ben and I will perform 2 relay-concerts along with violinist Yeon-Su Kim and will also do a lecture/ workshop on small ensemble writing involving strings and piano.
7. Managing the Roberts Street Chapel - 333 Roberts Street, Fargo, ND
My new studio is located behind a beautiful art-chapel, "Roberts Street Chapel" in Fargo. I am in charge of revitalizing and managing this place, and I will try to make this place more visible to the community. Anybody who wants to use the chapel space may contact me. You can read more about the chapel at www.marjorieschlossman.com as well as on the "wisdom" section of this website.