Amy Likar holding her flute with pianist Lino Rivera
Music Program and Performing Arts: Dance, Music & Theatre

Faculty Recital
Lino Rivera (piano) & Amy Likar (flute/piccolo)

Date & Time

Location (On-campus)

Chapel: Main
1928 St. Marys Road
Moraga, CA 94575
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Amy Likar holding her flute with pianist Lino Rivera

About

Join Amy Likar and Lino Rivera for an afternoon of music for the flute and piano (and piccolo too!).  Likar and Rivera will be performing works by Aaron Copland, Ian Clarke, Stacy Garrop and Erwin Schulhoff.  
 

Amy Likar is a flutist with the Oakland Symphony and an active freelance musician with several other groups. She directs the training program for the Association for Body Mapping Education, and champions musicians’ health and wellness. She is an AmSAT Certified Alexander Technique Teacher.  Her passion is helping people to get out of their own way to create meaningful, compelling performances. She is a Powell Flutes Performing Artist.  www.amylikar.com

Born in the Philippines, Prof. Lino Rivera won his first national competition at age eight. He has performed as a solo recitalist, concerto soloist, and accompanist on three continents. He has been featured on several radio and television broadcasts, notably live performances with the Manila Symphony Orchestra and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra. Rivera makes it his mission to advocate and premiere contemporary works; to explore and meet the artistic, creative, and technical challenges of piano transcriptions (the subject of his doctoral dissertation); and to discover and perform obscure solo piano repertoire throughout the ages.

Rivera is a celebrated performer for Composers, Inc. an organization based in San Francisco dedicated to promoting works by contemporary American composers. In 2007, he performed many of the Beethoven sonatas in conjunction with renowned music historian Robert Greenberg on a concert lecture series presented at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California. He is a frequent soloist at Music Teachers' Association of California conferences, and regularly serves as an adjudicator of piano competitions. Recent solo recitals have taken place in Nuremberg (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), Kent University, Corpus Christi, Savannah, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Anchorage.

Notes about the pieces which are going to be performed:
 
Ian Clarke’s work is supposed to evoke flamingos in Kenya.  
 
Stacy Garrop’s work is brand new and just premiered in October in Chicago. It is in memory and tribute to Walfrid Kujala, former piccoloist in the Chicago Symphony.  It’s in three movements and each pays homage to Wally in a different way.  The first movement is all motives from his book called Vade Mecum which is essentially a handbook on everything flute.  The second movement is riffs on some famous piccolo orchestral excerpts and the third movement is the Finnish Hymn-Päivä vain ja hetki kerrallansa or With Each Passing Moement. 
 
The Schulhoff Sonata was written in 1927 and he himself called it “printed kitsch, but skillfully made.”  He is a Czech composer who studied under Dvorak but was influenced by Schoenberg. So this sonata is an eclectic mix of  jazz, Dadaism, Impressionism and folkloric melodies. 

Contact

Tara Sundy
Performing Arts Coordinator & Events Manager
tms8@stmarys-ca.edu
(925) 631-4670

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Join Amy Likar and Lino Rivera for an afternoon of music for the flute and piano (and piccolo too!).  Likar and Rivera will be performing works by Aaron Copland, Ian Clarke, Stacy Garrop and Erwin Schulhoff.  
 

Amy Likar is a flutist with the Oakland Symphony and an active freelance musician with several other groups. She directs the training program for the Association for Body Mapping Education, and champions musicians’ health and wellness. She is an AmSAT Certified Alexander Technique Teacher.  Her passion is helping people to get out of their own way to create meaningful, compelling performances. She is a Powell Flutes Performing Artist.  www.amylikar.com

Born in the Philippines, Prof. Lino Rivera won his first national competition at age eight. He has performed as a solo recitalist, concerto soloist, and accompanist on three continents. He has been featured on several radio and television broadcasts, notably live performances with the Manila Symphony Orchestra and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra. Rivera makes it his mission to advocate and premiere contemporary works; to explore and meet the artistic, creative, and technical challenges of piano transcriptions (the subject of his doctoral dissertation); and to discover and perform obscure solo piano repertoire throughout the ages.

Rivera is a celebrated performer for Composers, Inc. an organization based in San Francisco dedicated to promoting works by contemporary American composers. In 2007, he performed many of the Beethoven sonatas in conjunction with renowned music historian Robert Greenberg on a concert lecture series presented at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California. He is a frequent soloist at Music Teachers' Association of California conferences, and regularly serves as an adjudicator of piano competitions. Recent solo recitals have taken place in Nuremberg (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), Kent University, Corpus Christi, Savannah, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Anchorage.

Notes about the pieces which are going to be performed:
 
Ian Clarke’s work is supposed to evoke flamingos in Kenya.  
 
Stacy Garrop’s work is brand new and just premiered in October in Chicago. It is in memory and tribute to Walfrid Kujala, former piccoloist in the Chicago Symphony.  It’s in three movements and each pays homage to Wally in a different way.  The first movement is all motives from his book called Vade Mecum which is essentially a handbook on everything flute.  The second movement is riffs on some famous piccolo orchestral excerpts and the third movement is the Finnish Hymn-Päivä vain ja hetki kerrallansa or With Each Passing Moement. 
 
The Schulhoff Sonata was written in 1927 and he himself called it “printed kitsch, but skillfully made.”  He is a Czech composer who studied under Dvorak but was influenced by Schoenberg. So this sonata is an eclectic mix of  jazz, Dadaism, Impressionism and folkloric melodies. 
 Chapel: Main, 1928 St. Marys Road, Moraga, CA 94575

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