Aug/090
John Perry & Mina Perry after their duet
They played “Petite Suite” by Claude Debussy… delightfully.
Aug/090
Intense Audience Concentration during John Perry & Friends concert
I love the look on the faces…
Aug/090
Photographs of “The Music Man” concert on 1 August 2009
From left: Ana Marques, Mina Perry, John Perry, Paule Prefontaine, David Stewart, David Bucknall, David Gaudry
See all the photographs I took here…
You may see yourself.
This one was taken in a dressing room backstage after the concert. I stood on a table. I think they all though I’d fall off.
Thanks to Ana Marques (first left) I got to meet all these wonderful people, and others too. It was my first time backstage after a concert. I felt privileged and nervous watching them celebrate. [It was a fairly restrained celebration I must say: if it was me who'd performed I'd have been been letting off a lot more steam.]
The reason I stood on the table is that I’ve often noticed professional photographers do that at weddings. Usually I take photographs from low down around waist height.
Aug/092
Fantastic concert last night
Last night’s concert was really outstanding, as everyone from the large crowd will attest. And the live streaming worked really well also I’m told. So a second live-streaming event is looking likely in the next couple of weeks, though no decision has been made yet. I’m looking forward to seeing Paul O’Mahony’s posts on it – and the many photographs he took afterward of the musicians.
John Perry has just left with the SMS Director of Transportation, Colie Tubridy, for Dublin from where he catches his flight back to the US at 4 this afternoon. Mina Perry is missing him already.
Colie will arrive back later this evening with Josef Calef the Cellist. Josef has been coming to SMS for many years now and is an esteemed and very well liked member of the faculty.
Aug/090
More instrumentalists arrive
Today sees the arrival of Sharon Nye, cellist, who is on the faculty of the Clare Music Makers in Ennis, Co. Clare. Sharon has been busy organizing the music the SMS Senior Orchestra will need for the start of the Instrumental Programme proper on Tuesday 4th August. She’s been helped by Deirdre Stack-Marques who counts photocopying among her duties in the SMS Office. Being very organized, as Sharon is, means that much less stress for everybody on the first day.
Also arriving this evening are flautists Tanja Fritschi who is also a faculty member of Clare Music Makers, and Chris Lacey who lives and works in London and has been an esteemed SMS faculty member for many years.
They are, of course, going to tonight’s concert by John Perry and friends which is also being streamed live over the web from the University Concert Hall with the much appreciated support of HEAnet, UL ITD, and LIT. More information on tonight’s web stream can be had on the Summer Music on the Shannon site.
Jul/090
Live streaming tomorrow night from UCH
For more information on our first ever live-streaming from Summer Music on the Shannon tomorrow evening 1st August at 8.00pm from the University Concert Hall in UL, check out the live streaming page on Summer Music on the Shannon.
Many thanks to HEAnet, ITD, UCH and LIT for their support and help in this exciting venture.
Jul/091
First LIVE Concert Streaming from University Concert Hall & UL
An exiting press release… (Thanks to David Collopy)
On Saturday 1st August people from all over the world can zone in on University Concert Hall and watch, listen to and enjoy musicians –also from all over the world – perform Live!
“The PianoMan” is the inaugural concert of this year’s Summer Music on the Shannon International Festival and will be the first ever concert streamed Live from the UL campus.
Over three hundred classical music and opera students and faculty have gathered in University Concert Hall from countries including the US, Canada, France, Italy and even Zambia, for Summer Music on the Shannon 2009.
UCH & UL are therefore delighted to announce this innovation whereby parents, friends and family of these young pupils can now log on and enjoy the first performance of the Festival!
Hosted by the HEA (Highter Education Authority) Net and facilitated by the University of Limerick ITD department, this will be the first of many concerts streamed live from UCH for the benefit and enjoyment of music fans the world over!
“The PianoMan” will feature John Perry, Professor of Music at the University of Southern California, and friends perform a delightful programme of music including Schubert’s Fantasia (Piano for Four Hands), Beethoven’s Piano Sonata In D and Terzetto in C by Dvorak. The concert is Free to the public and is sure to set the scene for a wonderful 16th SMS season!
For those of you who cannot get to UCH next Saturday night, be sure to log onto http://flashhost.heanet.ie/sms/live.html and enjoy!
Jul/090
John Perry has arrived
Pianist extraordinaire, John Perry, arrived into Shannon at 6.15am this morning and is due shorty on the main stage at the University Concert Hall for rehearsals.
John performs a free concert this coming Saturday night 1st August at UCH.
The programme is as follows:
- Fantasia in F minor’, Op.103 (piano, four hands) – Franz Schubert, performed by John Perry and Mina Perry
- ‘Terzetto in C major’, Opus 74, (two violins & cello) – Anton Dvorak, performed by David Stewart, Violin, Paule Préfontaine, Violin; David Gaudry, Viola; and David Bucknall, Cello.
- ‘Piano Sonata in D’, Op. 10, No.3 – Ludwig van Beethoven
- ‘Piano Quartet in A major’, Op. 26 – Jonhannes Brahms
- Also starring on Viola is David Gaudry
The concert promises to be terrific, and if you’re unlucky enough not to be able to attend, do not fret as it is being live-streamed on the web, through the auspices of UL IT Dept., UCH, HEAnet and LIT. I’ll post a link to the live stream nearer the time.
Jul/090
Piano Faculty member: Mina Perry
Mina Perry- a big welcome back to you…
Mina Perry, pianist & teacher, was born in Hokkaido, Japan.
She earned her undergraduate & post-graduate degrees @ Musashino School of Music in Tokyo.
During 3 years of teaching piano privately, Mina played many concerts.
She moved to Germany. Earned her master’s degree & worked as a correpetitor @ Hochschule für Musik Detmold.
She continued her Artist Diploma @ Glenn Gould School of Music, Toronto, Canada.
She’s studied piano with Tetsushige Maruyama, Konstantin Ganev, John Perry, & piano duo with Djulia and Konstantin Ganev.
She’s been soloist & chamber musician in recitals in Europe, North America & Japan.
Living in USA since 2006, she teaches privately in her studio in Pasadena, California.
In summer 2007, Mina joined SMS.
Summer 2008 she taught piano @ summer music festival “Music Alp” Courchevel, France.
Mina Perry is also on the faculty of “The Colburn School of Performing Arts” in Los Angeles.