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Our 23rd Season! |
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| Barbara Govatos, Music Director |
PO Box 3537
Wilmington, DE 19807-3537
302.455.0246 |
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Julie Nishimura, piano |
Pianist Julie Nishimura, a recipient of the 2000 Delaware State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, celebrates her fourteenth year as Faculty Accompanist for the Department of Music at the University of Delaware where she is also an instructor of the Sight-Reading and Accompanying/Chamber Music courses. She is also on the accompanying faculty of San Francisco-based California Summer Music. In constant demand as a collaborative artist, Ms. Nishimura has performed on the chamber music series of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Delaware Symphony and the Wilmington Music School; as a guest artist with the Delaware Chamber Music Festival, the Mendelssohn String Quartet, the Academy Chamber Players and the Hildegard Chamber Players; and as recital accompanist to members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Delaware Symphony. Ms. Nishimura has served as Music Director and Pianist for the joint OperaDelaware and City Theater Company world premiere production of Out of the Rain, a teen opera dealing with the issues of AIDS. In December 2002, she was Music Director for the Delaware Theatre Company’s production of The Gift of the Magi. Currently, as Co-Artistic Director of Distant Voices Touring Theatre, she is touring Distant Voices, a musical/dramatic work highlighting the plight of Japanese American citizens in internment camps during World War II, and September Echoes, a musical/dramatic work based on the events of and after September 11, 2001. |
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This program is made possible, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency committed to promoting and supporting the arts in Delaware. For additional information on arts activities in Delaware, visit the Delaware Division of the Arts website. |
MISSION STATEMENT
The Delaware Chamber Music Festival will extend and increase interest in classical music in Delaware by bringing to the public top quality chamber music performances at an affordable cost to attendees. Offerings will include chamber music concerts plus outreach programs for families and younger audiences, and will feature innovative mixes of traditional and contemporary classical music. |
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