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Past Concerts

ANATOLIAN FANTASY with the Özgen Trio
Music from Istanbul and the Ottoman Court

Anatolian Fantasy

    Neva Özgen, kemenche
    Kathleen Purcell, flute
    Mesut Özgen, guitar

About the Musicians

Award-winning Turkish guitarist and composer Mesut Özgen performs and teaches master classes worldwide. Read more...

Neva Özgen, a master of the kemençe (Turkish bowed instrument with gut strings) and one of the most respected improvisers in Turkish classical music, currently teaches at the Istanbul University Turkish Music Conservatory. Read more...

Kathleen Purcell has played principal flute under the batons of Leopold Stokowski’s associate conductor Maurice Dubonnet, choral and orchestral conductor Robert Shaw, and Richard Woitach of the Metropolitan Opera. Read more...


Music Samples

Mesut Özgen music samples.
Neva Özgen music sample.
Kathleen Purcell music samples.

Pacific Grove - Saturday, October 23, 2010, 4:00 P.M.

   Location: St. Mary's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 146 12th Street, Pacific Grove, Ca
   Donation: $25 general, $20 students/military/children

   

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Santa Cruz - Friday, October 22, 2010, 7:30 P.M.

   Location: UCSC Music Center Recital Hall
   Tickets: UCSC Ticket Box Office
   Prices: $11 general, $10 seniors, $8 students
   By Phone: 831-459-2159
   Via Email: Tickets
   Via Web: SantaCruzTickets.com

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Friday, February 12, 2010, 6:30 - 8:30 P.M.: Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony Pre-Valentine Evening of music, wine, & chocolate tasting, and good company on the Chinese New Year.
123 Green Street, Santa Cruz, CA

The evening will feature:

  • Local wine and chocolate tasting, along with other goodies
  • Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony and professional chamber music performances, including Kathleen Purcell, Ivan Rosenblum, and Kathleen's students Owen Meehan, Madison Eadie, and Pailin DeMeo
  • Exclusive Youth Symphony concert video
  • Silent auction of many potential Valentine gifts
Email panofsky@cruzio.com for tickets

Friday, February 12, 2010, 8 - 10 P.M.: KUSP (88.9 fm) broadcast of Santa Cruz Chamber Players' Take Five 1/16/10 concert
To listen on the internet: http://www.kusp.org/live/

Saturday, February 6, 2010, 2 P.M.: Take Five: 3 Quintets and 2 Duos - Music for Winds and Piano
First United Methodist Church of Salinas, 404 S. Lincoln Ave., Salinas, CA

Sunday, January 17, 2010, 3 P.M.: Take Five: 3 Quintets and 2 Duos - Music for Winds and Piano
Santa Cruz Chamber Players

Saturday, January 16, 2010, 8 P.M.: Take Five: 3 Quintets and 2 Duos - Music for Winds and Piano
Santa Cruz Chamber Players

Saturday, October 17, 2009: Atelier concert in Villa Krautinger
Badenweiler, Germany
Kathleen Purcell, Flöte
Patricia v. Blumröder, Klavier
http://www2.toubiz.de/btt/default/house.php?id_house=6415

Thursday, October 15, 2009, 7:30 P.M.: "Zwischentöne" - Konzert von N.Chedeville, F.A.Doppler, K.Stockhausen, J.Cage
Kathleen Purcell, Gastflötistin
Patricia v. Blumröder, Klavier
http://www.frankfurter-kuenstlerclub.de/body_veranstaltungen.html

Sunday, October 4, 2009, 10:30 A.M.: Flute duets with choir and piano - Cheryl Anderson, Conductor
First Congregational Church, Santa Cruz
Kathleen Purcell, flute
Owen Meehan, flute
Vlada Volkova-Moran, piano

Sunday, September 20, 2009, 10:30 A.M.: Flute solos with choir and piano - Cheryl Anderson, Conductor
First Congregational Church, Santa Cruz
Kathleen Purcell, flute
Vlada Volkova-Moran, piano

Saturday, May 16, 2009, 7:30 P.M.: "Three's No Crowd" - Music for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano
Santa Cruz Chamber Players

Thursday, May 14, 2009, 7:30 P.M.: Solo Performance with Ivan Rosenblum, piano
as part of the Music in May Festival, Santa Cruz, CA

Saturday, May 9, 2009: Private Concert
Santa Cruz, CA

April 28, 2009: Private Concert
Dominican Oaks, Santa Cruz, CA

February 19, 2009: "Flutes, Flutes and More Flutes"
Munching with Mozart

December 6, 2008: Music for Linda
New Music Works

June 8, 2008: Avant Garden Party: Celebrating the Life and Music of Lou Harrison
New Music Works

March 28, 2008: "World Guitar Night" concert, San Jose State University, as part of the South Bay Guitar Society Guitar Solo & Ensemble Festival, San Jose, CA. Featuring Matthew Grasso, Babak Falsafi & Mesut Özgen, Concert Hall, School of Music and Dance building, campus of San Jose State University. $20/$15

March 15 and 16, 2008: Saints, Sinners, and Sassing Bach
Santa Cruz Chamber Players

March 11, 2008: Saints, Sinners, and Sassing Bach
Berkeley Chamber Performances

March 8, 2008: Concert V, Night of the Living Composers
New Music Works

Wolford-Rosenblum Duo