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WINGS
WINGS is a new choreographic journey by Artistic Director Jacob Gutiérrez-Montoya, featuring the talented Hawkins Contemporary Jazz Company. This performance draws inspiration from the grace and freedom of birds in nature, capturing the essence of our innate desire to soar. Through a unique blend of movement and storytelling, WINGS invites audiences to experience the poetry of flight, encouraging them to learn, grow, and ultimately take flight in their own lives. Join us for an unforgettable exploration of the human spirit and the beauty of movement.
guest performers
Cassandra Lynne Richburg,
viola
Cassandra Lynne Richburg is a founding member of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, based in San Francisco, and is an active studio musician in Los Angeles. She has performed on more than 350 motion picture soundtracks, including: Avatar, Encanto, The Lion King, Steel Magnolias, A Beautiful Mind, Moana, The Princess and the Frog and Frozen. On many occasions, she has been a member of the Academy and Emmy Awards Orchestras and the Grammy Strings. Lynne has performed on Soul Train, NAACP Image Awards, and Dancing with the Stars. Ms. Richburg has been recognized as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and won many competitions including: First prize in the The William PrimroseInternational Viola Competition, a prize winner in the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, and First Prize Winner of the Wendell Irish National Viola Competition and was invited to join the jury panel as an adjudicator for the 2014 William Primrose International Viola Competition. Ms. Richburg has performed many summers at the Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho, and currently resides in Sacramento, CA.
Igor Veligan,
violin
Lecturer in violin, viola, and chamber music at University of the Pacific, Igor Veligan joined the faculty of the Conservatory of Music in the fall of 2006. He also taught at American River College from 2004 to 2015. He holds a master's degree in violin performance and chamber music from Odessa State Conservatory. His teachers included Zoja Istomina and Galina Gritzenko. Veligan founded the Odessa Conservatory String Quartet, which performed extensively in Ukraine, toured in Freiburg (Germany), Tokyo, and Niigata (Japan). He also performs extensively with pianist Natsuki Fukasawa, collaborates with various chamber ensembles and has been a guest violist with the Trio 180. He has also performed as a violist with the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento for the past ten years. Igor Veligan is an artist faculty member of the Hawaii Performing Art Festival and the Orfeo International Music Festival (Italy). He is a cofounder and artistic director of Chamber Music Festival at San Domenico Conservatory. As an orchestra performer, Veligan serves as concertmaster of Pacific Chamber Symphony. He served as a guest concertmaster of the Sacramento Philharmonic, principal violist with the Reno Philharmonic and principal second violinist with the Monterey Symphony for ten years. In 2013 Igor Veligan along with pianist Natsuki Fukasawa released a CD titled Voices of Eastern Europe featuring violin and piano sonatas by Enescu, Skoryk, and Babadjanian. His recent solo appearances with symphony orchestra include Bartók’s Viola Concerto, Prokofiev’s Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, and others. Veligan is a founder and violin-viola teacher at the Young Talents Music School. Many of his students are winners of numerous local and state competitions.
Michael Dahlberg,
cello
A chamber musician noted for his “sensitivity and coloristic playing” (The New York Times), Michael has built a career exploring music as a vehicle for learning and community-building. Following graduation from New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston, he led projects aimed at revitalizing the way classical music was presented and taught around New England - from a chamber music parlor series at local jazz clubs to immersive orchestral experiences in breweries, string quartet residencies in the Boston Public Schools, and more. Michael’s projects earned awards and recognition from NEC, the St. Botolph Club, and Tanglewood Music Center and NPR’s “From the Top” where he designed and facilitated over 80 interactive music events across 45 US cities for over 13,000 audience members of all ages. In 2017, Michael relocated to the Bay Area where he was fortunate to play with regional ensembles including the San Jose Chamber Orchestra and Symphony Silicon Valley and serve as cello faculty at San Jose State University. Michael now resides in the Sacramento area with his wife, daughter and 13-pound cat, Gus enjoying a triple life as Product Manager for a tech startup, musician, and father.
Hrabba Atladottir,
violin
Icelandic violinist Hrabba Atladottir is a graduate of the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany where she studied under Prof. Tomaszewski and Prof. Gerhardt. In Berlin she worked at the Deutsche Oper and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bernard Haitink and Christian Thielemann to name a few. In 2004, Hrabba moved to New York, playing on a regular basis with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke's and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among other orchestras. She was also a sought after new music specialist, and worked with ensembles including the Either/Or ensemble and collaborated closely with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann. Hrabba came to the Bay Area in 2008, and has been performing as a soloist and with a large variety of ensembles, for example the New Century Chamber Orchestra, The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, The Empyrean Ensemble, the ECO ensemble and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Hrabba performed in a world tour with the Icelandic pop artist Björk, and on a Germany tour with Violinist Nigel Kennedy. She has been a Violin Lecturer at UC Berkeley since 2009.