Osher Lifelong Learning Institute - UC San Diego

Live Music Program
Friday 1:00 p.m.
Coordinator: Reed Sullivan
April 19
Sheldon Rosenbaum and Adrienne Nims
The program will include works for flute and piano by
Poulenc, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and others. Nims
and Rosenbaum are looking forward to playing at
Osher again.
Adrienne Nims was raised in New England, started
piano at the age of five, and quickly moved on to flute
and saxophone. She studied with the University of
Massachusetts, University of Michigan, New England
Conservatory, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
performing in New England Conservatory ensembles as
a teenager.
Sheldon Rosenbaum received his music B.A. from the
University of Hartford and his M.A. from Northwestern
University where he received a fellowship as
accompanist in the opera department. Rosenbaum is
presently an accompanist for the choirs at Bethlehem
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Encinitas.
April 26
University of San Diego Chamber Ensemble
Angela Yeung will once again coordinate and
present an extraordinary classical music event using
undergraduate, graduate, and staff musicians from
USD and the greater San Diego Community. The
music curriculum at USD is extremely fluid, making it
difficult to specify musicians or compositions months
in advance, but Yeung has never failed to present a
sensational music program.
May 10
Lauren Widney, San Diego Youth Symphony
Note: the program will be two hours in length
The Community Opus Project began with 75 students
after school at two elementary-school campuses in
Chula Vista. Modeled after the successful Venezuelan
method, El Sistema, Opus brings students, families,
and communities together through music. Listen to a
group of students who have been in the program for
three years. These 5th graders will inspire you to want
to learn more about El Sistema, Opus, and music in the
Chula Vista Elementary Schools.
Lauren Widney, Education and Community Program
Manager for the San Diego Youth Symphony, manages
the Community Opus Project and will share a history
of El Sistema and Opus before the students perform.
Understanding the philosophy of the program will
generate more excitement to hear these talented
students perform.
May 24
Marimbist Andre Kreysa
This program is entitled Rosewood Beauty, a concert
program featuring works by Smadbeck, Davis,
Uchiyama, Kreysa, and others, which displays the vast
array of harmonies and romantic sonorities of the
marimba.
Andre Kreysa is in his final semester as an
undergraduate at San Diego State University. He is
the Director of the Percussion Ensemble and is the
Percussion Logistics Coordinator. Last year Andrew
won the SDSU Soloist Competition, and performed
David Gillinghams’s Marmimba Concerto No. 2 with
the SDSU Wind Symphony. He is a recipient of the 2012
Kiwanis Chamber Music Scholarship. Kreysa is seeking
matriculation into a graduate music performance
program.
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