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SUMMARY:Clark College Orchestra "Fall Concert"
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LOCATION:Royal Durst Theater - 3101 Main Street - Vancouver, WA
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 VANCOUVER, Wash. -- The Clark College Orchestra will present its fall concert as part of the 20th anniversary of Dr. Donald Appert as Music Director/Conductor in a season entitled “Precious Gems for a Score” on Wednesday, December 2nd in the Royal Durst Theatre of the Vancouver School of Arts & Academics, 3101 Main St., Vancouver. Featured on the program will be pianist Dr. Kathy Edsill-Charles in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a theme by Paginini. Also on the program will be Franck’s Symphony in d minor. Dr. German Cáceres, Music Director of the El Salvador State Symphony, will be the guest conductor. The performance is at 7:30 p.m. and admission is free and open to the public. Donations to the Orchestra General Fund will be accepted at the door. =0D=0A=
 Kathy Edsill-Charles, pianist, is in demand as a teacher, collaborative artist, and chamber musician. For the past three years she has taught piano at Clark College and is also the accompanist for the Concert Choir and Women’s Choral Ensemble. She also accompanies the Washington State University-Vancouver University Singers Community Choir. As a collaborative artist she has accompanied vocal and instrumental students in various auditions and competitions at the district and state level, and has performed in various capacities in opera, music theatre, and symphony productions. She has performed in concerts in Europe, Asia, the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest. She has appeared as a soloist with the Wartburg Symphony and was featured with the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra in John Adam’s Grand Pianola Music. =0D=0A=
 In addition to her college teaching, Dr. Charles maintains a private piano studio at her home and also teaches through the Virtuosity Performing Arts Studio at Vancouver Elite Gymnastics Academy in Camas. She is an active member of Clark County Music Teachers Association and the Oregon Music Teachers Association. As a Permanent Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, her students have received honors at the local and state level. As a Steinway Scholar, she attended the Robert Pace Pedagogy Institute held at Columbia University in New York City. As an enthusiast of continuing education she has attended State and National Music Teacher Association Conferences as well as World Piano Pedagogy Conferences. She has served as an adjudicator of contests, festivals, and auditions throughout the Midwest and Northwest. =0D=0A=
 Prior to moving to Vancouver, she was a faculty member at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. She also served as Staff Accompanist at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma and taught through the UPS Community Music Program where she was a founding member of the Community Music Piano Quartet which performed throughout the Pacific Northwest.=0D=0A=
 Kathy received her Bachelor of Music Education/Piano and Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Northern Iowa. She was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree with high honors from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. Her primary teachers have included Joanne Baker, Richard Cass, Howard Aibel, William Doppman, and German Diez. =0D=0A=
 Kathy is the loving wife to husband Bill and mother to two sons, Michael and Marcus. In addition to her music, she enjoys cooking, gardening, sewing, reading and stained glass. =0D=0A=
 German Cáceres began his musical training in San Salvador studying harmony, counterpoint and form with Ion Cubicec and Esteban Servellon and orchestra conducting with Alejandro Munoz Ciudad Real and Recardo del Carmen. He earned two degrees from The Juilliard School of Music where he studied oboe and chamber music with Ronald Roseman and composition with Stanley Wolfe and David Diamond. While in New York he also studied composition with Julian Orbon and orchestra conducting with Jose Serebrier. In 1989 he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from the Cinncinati Conservatory of Music at the University of Cinncinati where he studied with Jonathan Kramer. =0D=0A=
 As a composer his works have been performed throughout the US and Latin America as well as in Europe and Israel. His awards include grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Fulbright foundation. He received the National Prize of Culture in El Salvador, the International Gertrud Ramdohr Prize in Germany, and the L’ordre des Arts et Lettres in France. He has been commissioned by the North and South Consonance Ensemble of New York, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Duo Contemporain from Holland, the Organization of American States, the Guanajuato Symphony (Mexico), The Foundation for Contemporary Music (Puerto Rico), The Ensemble of Caracas, the Halffter String Quartet (Mexico), Octeto Academico (Venezuela) and The New Juilliard Ensemble.=0D=0A=
 Currently Dr. Cáceres is the Principal Conductor and Music Director of the El Salvador Symphony Orchestra, a position he held from 1985 to 1999 and then was reappointed to in 2002. He has appeared extensively as a guest conductor with orchestras in Mexico, Central America, South America, and in the United States. In addition he has conducted orchestras in Romania, Belgium, and the Ukraine.=0D=0A=
 From 2000 to 2002 he served as Director of Arts and Culture at the University of El Salvador. He is currently a member of the Music History Faculty of the Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas in San Salvador.
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