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January
8
Monday,
7:30 pm
$9 - $13 adult; $5 - $9 student
Upper level seats are listed first. Includes all fees.
Keiko Forrey, cello
Nampa native Keiko Forrey began cello lessons at age ten with Katherine Scott. When she was 14, she studied with Sam Smith, the Albertson College of Idaho cello teacher and Langroise Trio cellist, made her first orchestral audition with the Boise Philharmonic and immediately began playing with them. She studied two years at Albertson College of Idaho and then transferred to the Eastman School of Music to work with Professor Alan Harris. Locally, she was featured as the cello soloist in the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations and the Dvorak Concerto in B Minor with the Meridian Symphony. She studied during the winter term of 2003-2004 in Freiburg, Germany at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik. Back at Eastman, Keiko was chosen to play the cello solo in Angela’s Ashes with the composer John Williams conducting. She graduated in 2004 with a Master of Music degree and the Performer’s Certificate by the Eastman faculty. Keiko has served as the teaching assistant for her cello teacher, Professor Alan Harris and has been an active performer in the Eastman Chamber Music Society. She is now working on her doctorate at Eastman and continuing as a teaching assistant for Professor Alan Harris and as the instructor of String Pedagogy. She has enjoyed three summers at Aspen, Colorado on an Horizon Fellowship. During those years she collaborated with Leon Fleisher, Gil Shaham, Alex Kerr, Wu Han, Masao Kawasaki, Howard Shore, Renata Arado and other faculty.
Robyn Wells, pianist
Born in Washington, D.C., pianist Robyn Wells considers herself a native of Idaho, where she began her musical studies at age six. Her undergraduate years were spent at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, studying with Dr. Calvin Knapp and Richard Farner, and one year at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, studying with Leander Bien. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Pacific Lutheran after which she spent two years there as a staff accompanist.
Robyn received her Master of Music degree in piano performance from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she studied with Dr. Viktor Polonsky. While there, she held an assistantship in accompanying, and established and taught an undergraduate course in piano pedagogy. After graduation, she continued her work as an accompanist in the music department.
For the last 19 years Robyn has been active as a private piano instructor and currently maintains a studio of 28 students. She is an active member of the National Federation of Music Clubs and the Music Teachers National Association. Robyn is in her third year as the adjunct piano teacher at Albertson College of Idaho.
In addition to accompanying and teaching, Robyn remains busy as a soloist. In the spring of 2005, Robyn performed with the Albertson College String Sinfonia. She has also performed with the Miami University Symphony Orchestra. Robyn has been a featured soloist on community concert series in Idaho, Michigan, Massachusetts, Colorado, and California, has given guest recitals at several universities and has performed in Canada, Norway, and Italy. In March of 2006, she accompanied the erhu soloist Rongchun Zhao in a Caldwell Fine Arts program and repeated the same program at Twin Falls. She has participated and won prizes in various piano competitions, including being named as a finalist in the 1998 Award-Debut Competition sponsored by the Ladies Music Club of Seattle. In 1998 and 1999, Robyn spent part of her summer in Siena, Italy as a participant in the Sessione Senese per la Musica e l'Arte.
This year marks the twelfth year Robyn has managed and performed her own series of concert tours which to date have included over 200 engagements throughout the United States. Robyn has four CD recordings:
A Grand Adventure, A Grand Italian Adventure, A Grand French
Adventure, and the latest release is A Grand American Adventure.
Outside of music, Robyn is an avid reader, a passionate cook, and an adventurous traveler. She loves to bike, camp, walk, and relax at home with her husband and their three cats.
Emily Tynon, cello
Emily Tynon started her cello studies at age ten with Keiko Forrey, and then studied with Sam Smith for five years. Emily graduated from Caldwell High School in 2002,
where she was a member of the CHS Orchestra and Chamber players, under the direction of Gini Rosandick. While in high school she won concerto competitions and performed as a soloist with the Gonzaga University Symphony and the Treasure Valley Youth Symphony. Emily also played in the cello section of the Boise Philharmonic her senior year in high school.
Emily was principal cello of the 2002 Idaho All State Orchestra, and also was chosen for All Northwest in 2001, and Idaho All State in 2000. Emily received scholarships from the Interlochen Arts Camp, spending the summers of 2000 and 2001 in Michigan. Emily received a scholarship from the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in cello performance in May of 2006. Emily received a fellowship to the Brevard Music Festival (North Carolina) in the summer of 2004. Emily spent the summer of 2005 at the Meadowmount Festival in upstate New York. Emily received a scholarship from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she is currently pursuing a Master of Music in cello performance and studying with Mark
Kosower.
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