Thursday, May 13th, 2010 7 pm St. Joseph's School of Music Recital Hall
MILANA ELISE REICHE, violin, holds a first violin position with the Minnesota Orchestra and is concertmaster of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. Prior to her positions in the Twin Cities area, she served as concertmaster of the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In addition to her work as an orchestral musician, she has given numerous solo recitals and chamber music performances reaching audiences throughout the United States and Europe.
Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Reiche holds a bachelor of music degree from the University of Minnesota where her principal teachers were Roland and Almita Vamos. She studied with Sidney Harth at Yale University where she received her master of music degree. She has given solo performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Bloomington Symphony, Cheyenne Symphony, Spokane Symphony and New World Symphony. She has recorded two promotional CD’s for Baker Associates, Inc. in Minneapolis.
Reiche has performed in the Mainly Mozart festival in San Diego, CA and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony festival in Idaho. She is a frequent performer in the Colonial Chamber Series of Edina; the Minnesota Orchestra McPhail Chamber Series; the Hill House Series in St. Paul; and the Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest Chamber Series. Milana teaches private lessons in her home in Minneapolis, where she resides with her brilliant designer husband and three adorable children.
PIANO MASTER CLASS with MARY JO GOTHMANN
Saturday, May 8th, 2010 1 pm St. Joseph's School of Music Recital Hall
Pianist MARY JO GOTHMANN has worked for some of the most prestigious opera companies in the United States including the Metropolitan Opera and Santa Fe Opera.In 1998 Ms. Gothmann was one of two pianists invited to join the Lindemann Young Artist program at the Metropolitan Opera, and was then asked to become an assistant conductor on the music staff that same year.She has performed recitals with singers from the Metropolitan Opera as well as with instrumentalists from most of the country's major symphony orchestras. She has performed in the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's chamber music series, with EOS Orchestra in New York City, the Taos Chamber Music Group, and as piano soloist in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. Currently, Ms Gothmann works with talented young singers at The Minnesota Opera, plays chamber music with friends from the St Paul Chamber Orchestra, and enjoys being a mom to her 7 year old daughter, Amelia. In addition to a Master of Music degree in Collaborative Piano from the University of Minnesota, Ms.Gothmann also holds a Master of Music in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Music from St. Olaf College.
