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| | Balkan Singing Workshop with Shira Cion and Janet Kutulas - Level II - Series |
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From May 06, 2008 7:30 PM
Until June 03, 2008 9:30 PM |
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The offices of Kitka/Children's Advocates
1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Oakland, CA 94612 |
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510-444-0323 |
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http://www.kitka.org |
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| Contact |
Shira Cion
1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Oakland, CA 94612
510-444-0323
info@kitka.org
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| Description |
These workshops will offer fascinating, diverse, and fun perspectives on Balkan, Slavic, and Caucasian folk singing. This level II class is for those with a some prior experience with Eastern European singing, or singing in vocal ensembles.
Shira Cion has been active both as a professional performer and arts administrator for over 25 years. She holds degrees in Classical Music Performance (oboe/English horn), Ethnomusicology, and Slavic Folklore from the Hartt School of Music, Wesleyan University, and Russia's Moscow Conservatory. Her life-long interest in new music and the expressive possibilities of the voice led to composition and performance work with Alvin Lucier, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Jonas, the Composers Cafeteria and ultimately to her discovery of traditional Balkan and Slavic women's singing, which has been her obsession since 1986. Of Russian, Belarussian and Ukrainian/Jewish descent, she joined Kitka in 1988, became the ensemble's Associate Director in 1991, and Executive Director in 1996.
Janet Kutulas joined KITKA in 1988, when she broke both her hands in a cycling accident and was temporarily unable to play her flute. A graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music she was awarded a Hertz Fellowship from the University of California in Berkeley as a living/traveling stipend to be used for the purpose of studying the flute abroad. She relocated abroad to the Chicago area where she studied and performed as a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (a training program of the Chicago Symphony), the New Arts Ensemble and the Illinois Philharmonic. Back in the Bay Area, she performed with the Berkeley Symphony, the California Symphony, the Lamplighters Orchestra, and the Donald Pippins Light Opera Company as well as various local pick-up orchestras and chamber groups. As a founding member, she played for 15 years with EARPLAY, an ensemble that performs newly written works by living composers. She has also performed in the San Francisco Symphony's New and Unusual Music Series, and with Composers Inc., among other Bay Area chamber groups. |
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