Campanile Music Festival
April 24 - April 26, 2023
The Campanile Music Festival is proud to present newly formed chamber ensemble In Triplicate. Three award-winning musicians Jasmine Lin (violin), Clancy Newman (cello) and Jeremy Kurtz-Harris (bass) unite as a trio featuring their own compositions inspired by jazz, classical, and folk music written especially for The Campanile Music Festival at SDSU. In Triplicate will present improvisation and composition workshops to students at SDSU with a feature concert at the Scripps Cottage on April 25th 7pm.
Guest artists:
Jasmine Lin is a “magnificent player with superb tone and strong interpretive powers” and “a violinist of remarkable intensity”, maintain American Record Guide and Chicago Tribune. As a member of Formosa Quartet and Trio Voce; faculty member at Roosevelt University and Music Institute of Chicago; Curtis Institute of Music alumna; confidante to a Cremonese violin; arranger of Grappelli tunes; prizewinner in the Naumburg and Paganini competitions; Grammy nominee; and recording artist on Con Brio, EMI, and New World Records, Jasmine likes to solicit magnificence and intensity while leaving raindrops on her nose un-wiped-off. Her biography contains precisely one hundred words.
Cellist Clancy Newman has enjoyed an extraordinarily wide-ranging career, not only as a cellist, but also as a composer, producer, writer, and guest lecturer. First prize winner of the Naumburg International Competition and recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, he has performed as soloist throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. He can often be heard on NPR’s “Performance Today” and has been featured on A&E and PBS. As a composer, he has expanded cello technique in ways heretofore thought unimaginable, particularly in his “Pop-Unpopped” project, and he has been featured on series by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Chicago Chamber Musicians. In March 2019 his piano quintet was premiered at the opening ceremony of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC, and in 2021 he was commissioned by the Kingston Chamber Music Festival to produce four educational videos to assist school teachers as they navigate the covid-19 pandemic. Mr. Newman is a graduate of the five-year exchange program between Juilliard and Columbia University, receiving a M.M. from Juilliard and a B.A. in English from Columbia.
Bassist Jeremy Kurtz-Harris has a diverse musical background that includes solo, chamber, and orchestral performance. He has been the Principal Bassist of the San Diego Symphony since 2004 and has also played Guest Principal Bass with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. During the 2015-16 season, Kurtz-Harris performed as an acting member of the San Francisco Symphony, performing as Principal for most of the season. He has also played Associate Principal Bass in the summers with the Sun Valley Music Festival since 2010.
As a soloist, Kurtz-Harris has performed concertos with the San Diego Symphony, the California Chamber Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. He has performed solo recitals throughout the U.S. and Canada, and recorded an album, “Sonatas and Meditations”, which featured his long-time collaborator, pianist Ines Irawati. An active proponent of the double bass as a solo instrument as well as of new music, he has led several consortium commission projects, where a group of bassists come together to commission a new work from an outstanding composer.
Kurtz-Harris is passionate about sharing music with young audiences. He has performed for young people in schools and libraries throughout San Diego, and has given masterclasses for musicians in San Diego, Tijuana, and throughout North America. Kurtz-Harris has been on the music faculty at San Diego State University since 2006, where he runs the classical bass studio.
In addition to his double bass performing and teaching pursuits, Kurtz-Harris also enjoys audio recording, editing, and sound design, composing and arranging for both instruments and sampled/found sounds, and relearning to play rock drums.
He lives with his wife and two children in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego.
Concert:
4/25 7:00 pm Concert at Scripps Cottage
4/25 11:00 am Open Rehearsals - Room 208 (Music Building)
Workshop:
4/26 10am - 12pm Workshop with Jasmine Lin - Room 208 (Music Building)
4/26 12:30 - 2pm Workshop with Clancy Newman - Room 245 (Music Building)
