Pacific Piano Trio Saturday
March 9, 2002
8PM Rebecca
Bogart, piano
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Piano Trios written by American
Composers Rebecca Bogart, pianist, has won
numerous awards, including top honors in the Pacific International Piano
and Carmel Music Society Competitions and an Alfred Hertz fellowship
from the Department of Music at the University of California at
Berkeley. She performs frequently as a soloist and chamber musician in
California and in other parts of the United States and Europe. In July
1998 she performed at the Academia Bellini in Naples and in Ragusa,
Sicily and was a prizewinner at the Ibla International Piano
Competition. She has performed as orchestral soloist with groups such as
the Palomar Symphony Orchestra in Escondido, California, the San
Francisco Concerto Orchestra, Berkeley's Trinity Chamber Orchestra, the
Kensington Symphony, Oakland Community Orchestra, Contra Costa Chamber
Orchestra, and Pro Musica of the East Bay. Her first solo piano CD,
American Retrospective, available in the classical music section of
Amazon.com, includes works from 1850 to 1943 by American composers,
including Beach, Griffes, Joplin, Gershwin, and Copland. Gretchen Egen, cellist, received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Arizona and her Masters from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying with Gordon Epperson and Bonnie Hampton respectively. She has been soloist with the Philharmonia Orchestra of Tucson and the Kensington Symphony, and has toured throughout Europe with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra with many conductors including Leonard Bernstein and Christoph Eschenbach. Gretchen was the cellist in the Del Sol String Quartet for three years, playing numerous children's concerts and recording a CD, Short Cuts, playing music from the United States, Cuba, and Argentina. Gretchen has been principal cellist with Santa Cruz County Symphony, the Sacramento Philharmonic, and the Sacramento Ballet. She has also played and recorded with the Women's Philharmonic. Gretchen currently plays with the Sacramento Philharmonic and the California Symphony. As well as being an active chamber musician and educator in the Bay Area, Gretchen can be seen playing cello in the movie, Redwood Curtain, available on video. |