Chilean Flutist to Perform with Keene State Faculty Artists
KEENE, N.H. 1/20/06 - Hernan Jara, a Chilean flutist and concert artist, will visit Keene State College to perform music by Latin American composers for flute, accompanied by guitar and piano, on Monday, Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. in the Alumni Recital Hall of the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond at Keene State. KSC faculty artists George Loring, pianist, and José Lezcano, guitarist and composer, will accompany Jara. The concert, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Division of Arts and Humanities, the Keene State College Music Department, and the Keene State chapter of Music Educators National Conference (MENC).
The program will include pieces by Astor Piazzolla, Peruvian composer Andrés Sás, and Venezuelan composer Raimundo Pineda. Lezcano’s original compositions will also be performed.
Jara, born in San Bernardo, Chile, in 1961, began flute studies at age 14 at the Musical Institute of the Catholic University of Chile, eventually obtaining the degree of Superior Interpreter with maximum distinction. He later founded the Wind Quintet Pro-Arte with which he toured Chile and abroad. They recorded two CDs, as well as programs for radio and television in Germany, France, Brazil, Peru, and Chile. He performed and taught at festivals in London and Jordan, and participated several times in the International Flute Festival of Lima, Peru. He currently is professor of flute and chamber music at the Instituto Profesional Escuela Moderna de Música in Chile, and is first chair and flute soloist with the University of Chile Symphonic Orchestra.
Loring is an artist-in-residence in the Keene State Music Department, where he teaches piano performance, accompanying, piano pedagogy, class piano, piano ensemble, and music theory. He performs frequently throughout New England as a chamber musician, and has also performed extensively internationally. He is frequently sought after as an adjudicator for state and regional competitions and festivals in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Lezcano, a Cuban-born guitarist, composer, and folklorist, teaches music theory and Latin American music at Keene State. His programs of traditional guitar repertory and Andean music have taken him from Carnegie Recital Hall to major festivals in Quito, Lima, and Rio de Janeiro. He recently toured Hamburg, Cologne, and Bonn, with flutists from South America performing works by himself, Piazzolla, and other Latin composers. He has received numerous national prizes and awards, including in 2003 a New Hampshire State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship and Keene State’s Award for Distinction in Research and Scholarship.
