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Educational Outreach
Passing the Torch, and the Passion
As our mission statement declares, Cactus Pear is committed to significantly contributing to the musical education of South Texas young people, not only during the summer festival but throughout the year. Exposing young people to this inspiring musical art form and the intimacy of listening to chamber music—or in making it themselves—has been a primary objective of the CPMF board and its founder since the beginning.
CPMF accomplishes this mission through our free Young Peoples' Concerts that occur during the festival season (see our schedule below), through our Young Artist Program (YAP)—a full-scholarship fellowship now in its seventh year that provides a group of young musicians two-weeks of intensive training with the festival professionals and opportunities for performance, and through Master Classes and our fun and educational Kinder Konzert series geared to children ages 3 to 10.
In 2008, Cactus Pear commissioned Colin Sorgi, a former and recent YAP fellow attending Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, to write a new composition for our 2008 ensemble of YAP fellows. What a memorable
moment to hear this new work of art by a former YAP fellow performed by our latest group of scholarship fellows. Take a listen to this one-minute excerpt from Colin's composition. This is what we mean by "passing the torch" and helping bring along the next generation of musicians.
from CPMF 2008 festival performances by YAP fellows performing Colin Sorgi's "Huapango"
YOUNG COMPOSER AWARD PROGRAM
The YOUNG COMPOSER AWARD is a competition that works in conjunction with the YAP fellowship (see section that follows). This year the instrumentation is for: Flute, Clarinet, 2 Violins, 2 Violas, and 2 Cellos.
THE FIRST ANNUAL AWARD WINNER IS
COLIN SORGI, who
receives a $500 cash award for his unanimously selected composition Velocity—in a blind judging by our three professional composers. Colin's composition will be debuted by the YAP ensemble in several performances throughout San Antonio and will be a featured piece at the final CPMF San Antonio concert on Saturday, July 18 at 7:30 pm. You are hearing, or heard when you selected this page, part of a previous composition that Colin did in 2008 when he was a student at Peabody Conservatory. That was another summer in which we had a unique combination of YAP instrumentation. Colin rose to the task of creating a delightful and sophisticated Huapango that was a big hit. We look forward to hearing his new composition and our first annual award winning piece by a young composer. Don't miss it!
YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM
The SEVENTH annual YAP winners have been announced. We were very impressed with the high level of skill, preparedness, and seriousness that each of the musicians brought to their audition performances. The winners are (alphabetical, in score order):
Teresa Villalobos, flute
Louis Coy, clarinet
Eric Bowser, violin
Lauren Logan, violin
Nathan Dowling, viola
Julian Tello, Jr., viola
Jonathan Willing, cello
Sydney ZumMallen, cello
The distinguished San Antonio Symphony First Violinist and San Antonio Opera's Concertmaster CRAIG SORGI is the YAP Education Director.
The curriculum includes daily private instruction and chamber music coachings with Festival artists, lecture classes on aspects of music performance/careers, free admittance to all festival rehearsals & concerts, and six outreach performance opportunities including the final two San Antonio Festival concerts.
Click here for a 2010 PDF application and more information on YAP in case you are interested in the program for next summer.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS [YPCs]
These concerts are free and open to the public! The four concert programs will be presented in shortened form by the festival artists who make the performances fun and educational for children. During our festival season, RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR GROUPS OF SIX OR MORE! Please call (210) 838-2218 for group reservations.
2010 YPC SCHEDULE
July 7 • RESTLESS ROMANTICS
@ First United Methodist Church, Boerne, 2 PM
. . . works by Chopin, Brahms, Barber and Schumann
First United Methodist Church
205 James Street, Boerne
A violin COOKIE from Bear Moon Bakery is waiting for each child after the concert to decorate and take home as
a reminder of a great time compliments of Paula Hayward and Bear Moon Bakery.
July 9 • HIGH NOTES & HEART STRINGS
@ OLLU, 2 PM
. . . works by Loeffler, Mozart and Mendelssohn
Our Lady of the Lake University, Thiry Auditorium
411 S.W. 24th Street, San Antonio
July 14 • PAIRED TO PEAR-FECTION
@ St. Mary's Hall, San Antonio, 3 PM
. . . masterpieces by Satie, Dvorak and a world premiere of a newly commissioned work by San Antonio's Timothy Kramer called "Three Pairs Suite."
St. Mary's Hall, Coates-Seeligson Theater/Chapel
9401 Starcrest Drive, San Antonio
July 16 • BAROQUE BACCHANAL
@ McKenna Event Center, New Braunfels, 3 PM
. . . selections from baroque masters JS-, CPE-, and JC Bach along with works by Couperin and Corelli.
McKenna Event Center
801 W. San Antonio Street
New Braunfels, TX 78130
YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM PERFORMANCES
Inspire your students as they experience the joy of chamber music performed by the group of very talented young artists who have trained and studied with the Festival professionals! The YAP student musicians will be performing in public throughout the 2 weeks of the festival.
2010 YAP SCHEDULE
Sunday, July 11 • 8:15, 9:30 and 11 AM services
University United Methodist Church
5084 De Zavala Rd, San Antonio
Monday, July 12 • 1:30 PM
Army Retirement Residence, San Antonio
7400 Crestway Drive, San Antonio
Wednesday, July 14
9:30-Noon
YAP in residence at YOSA Camp, St. Mary's Hall
9401 Starcrest Drive, San Antonio
3 PM
The Meadows Retirement Community
730 Babcock Road, San Antonio
Thursday, July 15 • 12 Noon and 1 PM
Coker United Methodist Church
231 East North Loop Road, San Antonio
Saturday, July 17 • 7:30 PM
Cactus Pear Music Festival concert
Sunday, July 18 • 9 AM service
Coker United Methodist Church
231 East North Loop Road, San Antonio
FREE COMMUNITY CONCERTS
Wednesday, July 14, 7:30 pm
Menger House/Morningside Ministries
1100 Grand Boulevard, Boerne
FREE Boerne Community Concert: Baroque Bacchanal
Selections from the full concert that takes place in
San Antonio on July 17, 7:30 pm
Sunday, July 18, 3:30 pm
McNay Art Museum • Leeper Auditorium
6000 North New Braunfels
San Antonio, Texas 78209
First come, first served. No admission before 3 pm. You must mention you are there for the CPMF concert.
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