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Reno Arts News January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 0 Comments Reno Arts News, Reno Chamber Orchestra

Maestro Nicholas Carthy Interview.

Maestro Carthy will conduct the Reno Chamber Orchestra on Saturday and Sunday, January 25th and 26th. He was born in England in 1957 and studied music there. In 1981 he won an Austrian government scholarship to study at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. After he finished his studies he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Landestheater in Salzburg. He has worked with such famous conductors as Daniel Barenboim and Sir George Solti. He has been a music director of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Switzerland and is currently a professor of music and opera at the University of Colorado and is a visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.

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Reno Arts News December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 0 Comments

Note-Able Music Therapy Services performed at Sierra Arts.

Last Tuesday the Note-Able Music Therapy Services performed at Sierra Arts.Here is a video that will tell you more about this wonderful music

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Dana Nollsch October 26, 2019October 26, 2019 0 Comments Music, Note-Ables, Reno

Note-able Music Therapy Services Soothes The Soul

Music is magnificent! It soothes the soul. It tames the savage beast. It unites people of different countries and different philosophies. I don’t need to speak German to be captivated by a Beethoven symphony. I can be the smartest person in the world or have a room temperature IQ. Either way, I can be put at peace with man and God listening to an old Ella Fitzgerald recording.

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Dana Nollsch September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 0 Comments Drum, Reno, Taiko

Taiko Tsurunokai Beats Reno

As a young girl growing up in Japan, Rieko Shimbo saw taiko drum music being performed, and she fell in love with it. She began her career with Araumaza, a professional taiko company based in Tokyo that performs folk music and dance in Japan.

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Dana Nollsch August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 0 Comments American Wagner Project, Artown 2019, Institute for Young Dramatic Voices, Norm Robins, Reno

The Future Voices of Opera in Concert

The Institute for Young Dramatic Voices (IYDV) and the American Wagner Project held their gala Wednesday, July 31, 2019, at 6 PM in the Nightingale Concert Hall at the University of Nevada, Reno, and what a gala it indeed was. It was the performance that capped 3 weeks of intensive vocal training in operatic voice technique. It was performed by 29 beautiful young rising opera stars to show off what they have learned. It was their chance to strut their stuff.

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Dana Nollsch July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 0 Comments Artown, Artown2019, Norm Robins, Opera, Reno, University of Nevada Reno

IYDV Master Class at UNR Listen to the Angels Sing

Every year world-famous Diva Dolora Zajick brings her Institute for Young Dramatic Voices (IYDV) in conjunction with the Wagner Institute to UNR for an intensive 3-week training of those young dramatic voices. They gave us a peek at what they do Saturday, July 20th. Four instructors from the IYDV and the Wagner Institute spent 4 hours coaching young dramatic voices in the techniques that will bring their voices from incredibly spectacular to perfect. We interviewed teachers and students before the Master Class.