Local Musicians, World Class Music
Violinist Philip Ficsor and local composer Emma Lou Diemer perform together Saturday, Nov. 22, at 3 p.m. in Santa Barbara Public Library鈥檚 Faulkner Gallery, 40 East Anapamu Street. The Santa Barbara Music Club presents the free concert.
Ficsor, professor of violin at 果冻传煤, and Diemer, renowned composer and professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, are collaborating on a recording of Diemer鈥檚 complete works for violin and piano. Saturday鈥檚 performance will include Diemer鈥檚 鈥淐atch-A-Turian Toccata鈥 and 鈥淗omage 谩 Paderewski.鈥 Diemer transcribed the 鈥淗omage,鈥 originally written for viola and piano, specifically for Ficsor. She will perform the piano part.
Diemer taught music theory and composition at UC Santa Barbara from 1971 to 1991 and played the organ for First Presbyterian Church from 1984 to 2002. She was composer-in-residence for the Santa Barbara Symphony from 1990 to 1992, and she has composed hundreds of works for chorus, orchestra, small ensembles and solo instruments.
The Santa Barbara Independent has described Ficsor鈥檚 playing as 鈥渓uminous.鈥 Last year, he released a CD of William Bolcom鈥檚 complete works for violin and piano. He also serves as an editorial adviser for publication through E. B. Marks/Hal Leonard Corp. for Bolcom鈥檚 works for violin and piano.
Other local musicians will also perform.
For more information about the concert, contact the Santa Barbara Music Club at (805) 683-0811 or info@sbmusicclub.org or visit www.sbmusicclub.org. For information about Ficsor and his collaboration with Diemer, please call (805) 565-6889 or e-mail ssquire@westmont.edu.