Mozart Marathon!
Mozart Marathon
Two Concerts, Two Different Programs
Featuring The Symphony's Musicians as Soloists!
These concerts are dedicated to all who have been affected by the Los Angeles fires.
Saturday, January 18, 2025 | 7:30pm
Sunday, January 19, 2025 | 3:00pm
The Granada Theatre.
Concert Duration: Approximately 100 minutes
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Come face to face with the genius of Mozart. One weekend, two different concerts, eight masterworks. The exquisite Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Elegant concertos for piano, for oboe, for violin, and for flute and harp. And one of his great final symphonies, No. 35, the “Haffner.” Attend both concerts – The Symphony’s Mozart Marathon – and be beguiled by the brilliance of Mozart.
PROGRAM 1 — SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2025 | 7:30 PM
The Artists
Nir Kabaretti, conductor
Amy Tatum, flute
Michelle Temple, harp
Jessica Guideri, violin
Jonathan Fox, director
Tim Bagley, narrator
Repertoire
Mozart: Overture to The Impresario
Mozart: Concerto For Flute and Harp
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
PROGRAM 2 – SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2025 | 3:00 PM
The Artists
Nir Kabaretti, conductor
Lara Wickes, oboe
Natasha Kislenko, piano
Jonathan Fox, director
Tim Bagley, narrator
The Repertoire
Mozart | Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart | Oboe Concerto
Mozart | Symphony in D, K 196 / 121
Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K 488
Pianist Natasha Kislenko, hailed for her “vividly expressive” interpretations and “virtuosity that left the audience exhilarated“ (Santa Barbara Independent) offers unique concert programs and presentations to the worldwide community of music listeners. A prizewinner of several international piano competitions, she has extensively concertized in Russia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel and across the Americas.
Ms. Kislenko made her Carnegie Hall solo recital debut after taking the Grand Prize at the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition in 1996. Recent solo engagements include the Eskişehir Greater Municipality Symphony Orchestra, Turkey; the Varna Chamber Orchestra, Bulgaria; and the New West Symphony, CA. A resident pianist of the Santa Barbara Symphony since 2010, she has been a featured soloist for the Shostakovich, Grieg, Clara Schumann, Dohnanyi, de Falla, and Mozart piano concerti, to great critical acclaim. In 2013, Ms. Kislenko was invited as a special guest to present the new Steinway D piano at the Teatro Municipal Ignacio A. Pane in Asunción, Paraguay, performing with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Congreso Nacional.
Ms. Kislenko has shared the stage with many distinguished musicians including Alban Gerhardt, Frank Huang, Richie Hawley, Joshua Roman, and the Takács Quartet, to name only a few. She, along with the violinist Chavdar Parashkevov, released two albums for violin and piano, “Russian Sonatas” and “Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler.” The Strad magazine praised her “limpid and beautiful pianism.”
Natasha holds graduate degrees in piano from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University, NY. Her main teachers include Anatoly Vedernikov, Gilbert Kalish, and Joaquín Achúcarro.
In addition to a successful performing career, Dr. Kislenko has been a dedicated educator and mentor to the younger generations of aspiring musicians. A collaborative faculty member at the Music Academy of the West, CA since 2004, Natasha joined the faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007 after serving at California State University, Fresno for five years. Since the lockdown, she has appeared with performances and masterclasses at Hacettepe University and Mimar Sinan University (Turkey), Texas State University San Marcos, San Diego State University, University of Colorado Boulder, and held a teaching residency at the Trinity Laban Conservatory in London, in addition to numerous adjudications for MTNA and MTAC.
Harpist Michelle Temple was awarded the position of Principal Harp with the Santa Barbara Symphony in 1991 and has served as Principal Harp for Opera Santa Barbara for more than 25 years. One of the few “locally grown” members of these orchestras, she enjoys frequent visits to her hometown to share music with Santa Barbara audiences. Michelle has also been a member of Orange County’s Pacific Symphony since 1994, and currently resides in Ventura County.
An active orchestral musician, she has performed with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, LA Opera, Opera Pacific, Pasadena Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. She has toured Europe with Pacific Symphony and the American Wind Symphony, and was a guest Principal with the Singapore Symphony. Her many ballet orchestra credits include the American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Royal Ballet of London, and the Bolshoi Ballet.
Michelle has shared the stage with some of music’s brightest stars, including John Williams, Kristin Chenoweth, Renee Fleming, Frederica von Stade, Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras.
She has recorded with Pacific Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Symphony, and can also be heard on the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s “Christmas” CD, and Frank Sinatra’s “Duets”. Michelle has been featured in world premiere performances of works by today’s leading composers, including Jake Heggie, Sir James MacMillan, Tobias Picker, John Wineglass, Viet Cuong, William Bolcom, Richard Danielpour, and Phillip Glass. She appeared with Pacific Symphony on PBS’ Great Performances, performing Southern California composer Peter Boyers’ work Ellis Island: The Dream of America.
In 2005, Michelle and flutist Cynthia Ellis formed the duo Arioso out of a shared passion to explore the vibrant and colorful repertory for flute and harp. They have performed innovative recitals and education concerts throughout Orange County, and their CD Petite Delights was released on the Centaur label, receiving immediate airplay on the largest classical music station in the country, Classical KUSC.
Hailed for her performances as featured soloist with the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Santa Barbara Independent wrote “she rendered the challenging parts with such grace it seemed effortless”.
Michelle holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University, where she studied with internationally renowned harp virtuoso Susann McDonald, and a Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California.
Lara Wickes is one of the most frequently recorded oboists in the world right now. Playing on sessions for film, television, albums, as well as frequent orchestra, chamber music, and solo performances, Lara has become known as one of Southern California’s premiere oboists.
Lara is the principal oboist of the Pasadena, Santa Barbara and New West symphonies, and also performs regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pacific Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Musica Angelica, and many more. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Southern California, a masters from the California Institute of the Arts, and a bachelors from the University of Oregon.
Originally from Corvallis, Oregon, Lara moved to Los Angeles in 2002 to study with renowned oboist Allan Vogel. Pursuing freelance work alongside her academic pursuits, she eventually became a regular in the recording studios, and has performed solo oboe and English horn on over 200 motion pictures. She has played solo oboe and English horn for John Williams, James Newton Howard, James Horner, Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri, Randy Newman, Michael Giacchino, and Hans Zimmer, among others. Some credits include Star Wars episodes VII-IX, Wish, the Fabelmans, Encanto, the Jungle Cruise, Rogue One, Moana, Incredibles 2, Coco, and Avatar 1 and 2.
She has also been privileged to record with several legendary artists, appearing on albums by Barbra Streisand, Elvis Costello, Kelly Clarkson, Neil Young, Celine Dion, the Who, Seth MacFarlane, Leslie Odom, Jr., Trisha Yearwood, Jimmy Eat World, Ke$ha, and Alice Cooper. She has also appeared on television with Prince, Mariah Carey, and Andrea Bocelli.
Because the oboe “just wasn’t quite hard enough,” Lara also plays the baroque oboe and the theremin, the former because of her love for early music and the latter because of her love for the haunting, singing quality of the instrument. Lara starting playing the theremin at the age of 17 and has performed in Carnegie and Disney Halls on the instrument, and also as a soloist with the San Diego Symphony. She has also done some recording on the theremin and can be heard on several episodes of “the Simpsons.”
Lara lives in North Hollywood with her husband and their two children. She is an active member of the American Federation of Musicians and is a titled officer of the Recording Musicians Association.
Amy Tatum is a cross-genre flutist who is in demand as a performer and educator in the Los Angeles music community. As a recording artist, she performs on a variety of flutes for film, television, video game, and popular music. Examples of her recent film credits include Wish, Avatar: The Way of Water, Encanto, Coco, Pulp, Star Wars: Episode IX, Star Wars: Rogue One, Suicide Squad, X-Men Apocalypse, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Amy’s playing can be heard worldwide on hit series Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Discovery, American Dad, Family Guy, Blood and Treasure, Treadstone, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Orville, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, The Umbrella Academy, The Middle, My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Revenge, Empire, and Penny Dreadful.
Amy relishes the diversity of LA’s musical culture, which affords an array of artistic variety. She is the newly-tenured Principal Flute of the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared as principal flute in over 30 performances with LA Opera and performs regularly with orchestras across Southern California including the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, New West Symphony, Muse/Ique chamber orchestra, Long Beach Opera, and Broad Celebrity Opera Series. Amy thrives in the chamber music environment, and has appeared locally as part of the Jacaranda, Hear Now, Symbiosis, Improvisatory Minds, South Bay Chamber Music, and Beverly Hills International Music Festival series, with the Impromptu Winds, and internationally with her woodwind quintet Midnight Winds on a multi-city concert tour of Poland. Her quintet was featured at the Schneider Concert Series in New York and as Artists-in-Residence for Chamber Music Sedona in Arizona. Amy has collaborated in live performance with numerous powerhouse artists including Stevie Wonder, Yo-Yo Ma, John Williams, Placido Domingo, James Galway, Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andre Watts, George Crumb, Sarah Chang, Yundi Li, Quincy Jones, Natalie Cole, Sarah McLachlan, Megan Trainor, Wynonna Judd, Seth MacFarlane, Michael McDonald, Spinal Tap, Brad Paisley, Katharine McPhee, and The Who’s Pete Townshend. In a bucket list realization, she appeared live with Wu Tang Clan at the Coachella music festival in 2013, and she was featured as a soloist alongside the great coloratura Sumi Jo at Walt Disney Concert Hall in a performance of Mozart’s “Ah, vous dirai-je maman.”
Ms. Tatum holds an affinity for the music of video games, which she regards as one of her generation’s most powerfully innovative creative media. She is the principal flute on Riot Games’ League of Legends, and is a featured soloist on the soundtrack. She performed the music live as a soloist to sold out crowds and broadcast live to millions around the world for the opening ceremonies in both Beijing, China and LA’s Video Games Live, Boston’s PAX East conference, and the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. She has recorded on the scores of Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty:Black Ops, Halo Wars 2, The Sims, Horn, and was heavily featured as flute and bass flute soloist in Austin Wintory’s Grammy-nominated Journey score.
Amy enjoys equaled passion for popular and commercial music, having recorded on albums by Alice Cooper, Devendra Banhart, Yellowcard, Little Joy (Rodrigo Amarante, Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes), and Tall Tales and the Silver Lining. She can be heard on Kristin Chenoweth’s Christmas album, “A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas,” and she recently fulfilled a lifelong dream working with Dolly Parton to record the soundtrack for her Netflix series “Heartstrings.”
Having been blessed by dynamic and compassionate teachers from the start, Ms. Tatum believes fervently that arts education should be a basic human right – available to all who seek to make their voices heard. She shares this zeal with her students as Professor of Flute at Los Angeles City College and Mt. St. Mary’s University, and in her private studio. She devoted 11 years as a teaching artist to Harmony Project and LA Phil’s Youth Orchestra Los Angeles at Expo Center, where she cultivated music-making with over 70 high-level young musicians, many of whom are now building successful careers of their own. Ms. Tatum was a featured panelist at the LA Phil’s Take a Stand Symposium, where she spoke of her experiences in a successful El Sistema-inspired program. She has led professional development workshops and served as an educational consultant for the Harmony Project and LA Philharmonic, and has appeared as a guest lecturer, featured artist, and adjudicator at Cal Arts University, Cal State Northridge, Gwangju University and Kyungsung University (Korea), and Scripps College in Claremont, CA.
Amy is committed to creating an empowering, dynamic space where musicians are encouraged to create, experiment, and develop the skills and personal power that are necessary to thrive as musicians and citizens.
Amy’s husband, two children, and tiny dog make her world turn.
American violinist Jessica Guideri is the Santa Barbara Symphony Concertmaster and an active recording musician—she can be heard on 500+ motion picture and television soundtracks including Star Wars, Family Guy, The Simpsons, and Frozen.
She is also an in-demand chamber musician and was the first violinist of the internationally touring Fry Street Quartet, sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the U.S. Department of State as cultural ambassadors to the Balkan states. Jessica has also appeared as a soloist in many countries and on many stages, including the main stage at Carnegie Hall.
She has held principal positions at the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, and Phoenix Symphony, among others. She has taught at Utah State and San Diego State Universities, as well as the Eastern Music Festival. Jessica founded, produces, and performs in a chamber music experience in Los Angeles called “Music Above the Clouds”. More information about Music Above the Clouds and Jessica can be found on Facebook and Instagram.
This is Jonathan’s sixth project with the Santa Barbara Symphony. He collaborated on their Shakespeare and Valentine’s Day concerts and directed their production of The Soldier’s Tale. He directed Opera Santa Barbara’s 2019 production of Eugene Onegin and 2014 production of The Consul. Jonathan formerly served as Ensemble Theatre Company’s artistic director and was with the company since 2006. His ETC productions of American Son, The Invisible Hand, and Bad Jews traveled to Frankfurt.
Other European productions include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Streetcar Named Desire, Visiting Mr. Green, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at The English Theatre Frankfurt, and Old Wicked Songs, Crimes of the Heart, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Vienna English Theatre. Before joining ETC, Mr. Fox spent 12 years with Two River Theater Company in New Jersey, which he helped establish in 1994. He served as Managing Director of the company from 1994-99 and subsequently became its Artistic Director. His directing work has been seen in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Cologne, and has received critical acclaim in The New York Times, Variety, the LA Times, and other publications. He received his MFA from Columbia University and is a recipient of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship. He has served as an adjunct faculty member in theater departments at UCSB, Columbia University, University of Utah, and Monmouth University.
Tim Bagley was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, grew up in Madison and Trempealeau, Wisconsin, and Niles, Michigan, before moving to Southern California when he was 17 years old to perform with The Young Americans, while attending California State University, Fullerton. He’s the son of Carol and Elwyn Bagley, and has four siblings, Anne, Patrick, Kathleen (Kit), and Daniel.
After College came a string of odd jobs, a Mitzi Gaynor dancer, a “Kids of the Kingdom” performer at Disneyland, a page at Paramount studios, a butler at the Playboy mansion, a reader at a court reporting college, an assistant to Cathy Rigby, and a phone answering service operator for two pimps named T-99 and Blueberry Muffin. At the same time he was taking acting classes with Gordon Hunt, Nina Foch, and Howard Fine, eventually finding his way to the prestigious comedy and improvisational company, “The Groundlings,” where he wrote and performed from 1990 through 1995, winning two L.A. Weekly awards.
In 1993 Fern Champion and Mark Paladini cast Tim in his first feature film, “The Mask,” with Jim Carrey, and they also cast him in his first television show that same year, “Daddy Dearest,” with Richard Lewis and Don Rickles. Tim’s first job as a series regular on a television show was in 1995 on Howie Mandel’s “Sunny Skies,” for Showtime.
Tim Bagley has been a series regular, recurred, and guest starred in over 160 television shows including “Somebody, Somewhere,” “Hacks,” “And Just Like That,” “The Perfect Couple,” “American Born Chinese,” “History of the World, Part 2,” “The Great North,” “Killing It,” “Grace and Frankie,” “AJ and the Queen,” “Will and Grace,” “Teachers,” “Mr. Robinson,” “Transparent,” “The Comeback,” “Web Therapy,” “Grimm,” “Southland,” “Monk,” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
Feature film highlights include “This Is 40,” “Knocked Up,” “Imperfect Sky”,” “Blind Malice,” “Employee of the Month,” “Finding Bliss,” “Accepted,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” “Happy Texas,” and “The Mask.”
For a more extensive look at Tim’s film and television history – IMDb.com
Tim has written and performed three one person shows. His current show, “No Actors Allowed,” is about navigating his way through the humiliations of being a working actor in Hollywood. “Clean Boy Dirty Stories,” is about his time working as a butler at the Playboy mansion, and “Happy Hour,” is about his family, and won the Jury award for best one person show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in 1999.
Tim continues to work onstage in such productions as “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” at South Coast Repertory, “Stage Kiss,” at The Geffen Playhouse, “Under My Skin” at the Pasadena Playhouse, “Underneath The Lintel” at Santa Barbara’s Ensemble Theatre, Rogue Machine’s “Four Places,” winning Drama Critics Circle, Garland, and Ovation awards, and “The Receptionist” at the Odyssey Theatre, and he created “The Captain,” for the long running spoof, “Beverly Winwood Presents,” with Jennifer Coolidge, Melissa McCarthy, Mindy Sterling, Michael Hitchcock, Cheryl Hines, Paul Reubens, Jim Rash, Nat Faxon, and other Groundlings all stars.
Tim continues to be a regular contributor to the LA alternative comedy and storytelling shows, “Uncabaret,” “Say The Word,” and “Rant and Rave.”
Tim is proud of his work with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, their Transitional Living Program, and their youth development and mentoring program, LifeWorks. He has volunteered with the Lockwood Elementary School, The Los Angeles Mission, Project Angel Food, and “Stars For Stripes,” entertaining the US military troops overseas in Iraq, Kuwait, Honduras, and Cuba.
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Conducted by The Santa Barbara Symphony’s
World Renowned Conductor
Nir Kabaretti
Nir Kabaretti has worked with some of the world’s most sought-after musicians. Some of his most well-known collaborators include Lang Lang, Placido Domingo, Joyce Di Donato, Angel Joy Blue, Vadim Repin, Gilles Apap, Hélène Grimaud, and André Watts.
Conducted by The Santa Barbara Symphony's World Renowned Conductor
Nir Kabaretti
Nir Kabaretti has worked with some of the world’s most sought-after musicians. Some of his most well-known collaborators include Lang Lang, Placido Domingo, Joyce Di Donato, Angel Joy Blue, Vadim Repin, Gilles Apap, Hélène Grimaud, and André Watts.
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