Highlights of Past Seasons

Taking advantage of the full range of possibilities that being a pianist can afford as a soloist, ensemble player, work with singers and instrumentalists, Jeanne Golan’s performing career has a wealth of variety.   Highlights of the past few seasons are below.

» The Ladies Who…

Beginning and ending at “lunch,” this recital serves up a jam session with something to suit every taste!  For more details on this smorgasbord of contemporary styles of music written about, for and by women, and to see video excerpts of this program, go to the Pet Projects page!

The icing on the teacake is ‘lightning sketch artist” Matt Freedman, whose simultaneous drawing to the piano performance fleshes out a particularly gruesome Saki tale…

The Stone, NYC, Friday, March 12, 2010 at 8PM? Seating is limited.
Preview: SUNY/Nassau Center for the Arts and Humanities Brown Bag Series, Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 11:30AM

» Cantori New York’s 25th Season features:
OUT OF THE CRADLE

A luxurious new cantata from Jorge Martin on texts of Walt Whitman, plus a reprise of a Cantori favorite: The Shadows Around the House by Tom Cipullo.

For chorus and chamber ensemble.

Church of the Holy Trinity 316 East 88th Street, New York City
Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM

» New England Piano Teachers’ Association presents:
Phrases and Dashes and Dots, Oh My!

Keynote speaker Jeanne Golan will discuss and illustrate issues of interpretation at NEPTA’s opening meeting.

The First Parish of Watertown 35 Church Street
Watertown, MA September 24, 2008 at 9:30 AM

» The Warwick Historical Society presents:
Gala Concert of Trios

Jeanne Golan, piano, Sean Carney, violin and Theodore Mook, cello

Music of Mozart, Haydn and Mendelssohn cap off the Harvest to Holly Festival followed by supper with the artists.

Meeting House, Warwick, NY
Saturday, November 17 at 7:30

» Music on the Edge presents:
Innocence Lost—The Berg Debussy Project

Mary Nessinger, mezzo and Jeanne Golan, piano
Two classic 20th century song cycles inspire two new 21st century cycles.
See Pet Projects page.

University of Pittsburgh, PA Bellefield Hall Auditorium

Monday, November 5 at 8PM
Previews at Skinner Hall, Vassar College and The National Arts Club, NY.

» Quotations: A Piano Recital
presented by the Afternoon Music Series

Features a world premiere of Eric Moe’s Legend of the Sad Triad, Keats-inspired works of Schumann, Ornstein, and Moe, Copland’s Our Town Suite, and the Brahms Handel Variations, all of which incorporate literary or musical quotes!

The Unitarian Church, Summit, NJ?Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 3PM

Previews at Millbank Chapel, Teachers College at Columbia University and SUNY/Nassau Music Recital Hall, Garden City, NY

» AN AMERICAN SPECTRUM:
with Eric Mandat, Composer/Clarinetist

Autumn 2007 Recital Tour

This year’s line-up goes coastal with San Francisco’s Martin Rokeach and New York’s Sebastian Currier and Jorge Martín. We even cross the pond for an unknown treasure by Charles Stanford.

Columbus State University Columbus, GA
Monday, September 30 at 7:30PM

Florida State University Tallahassee, FL
Wednesday, October 3 at 8PM

University of North Florida Jacksonville, FL
Friday, October 5 at 8PM

Autumn 2006 Recital Tour

This all-American program for clarinet and piano includes two works adapted from string pieces by their composers, Aaron Copland (who loved the “chamuleau” of the clarinet) and Jorge Martín Duo. Also works of Mandat, Kraft and Wilson.

University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Sunday, October 21, 2006

University of Victoria, Vancouver, CA
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Spring 2006 Recital Tour
Eastman School of Music
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Ithaca College
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

» Quotations: A Piano Recital
presented by the Afternoon Music Series

Features a world premiere of Eric Moe’s Legend of the Sad Triad, Keats-inspired works of Schumann, Ornstein, and Moe, Copland’s Our Town Suite, and the Brahms Handel Variations, all of which incorporate literary or musical quotes!

The Unitarian Church, Summit, NJ?Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 3PM

Previews at Millbank Chapel, Teachers College at Columbia University and SUNY/Nassau Music Recital Hall, Garden City, NY

» Center for Contemporary Opera presents
the World Premiere Concert version of Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied

The Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, NY
Monday, June 26, 2006, at 8 PM

Cast includes Jody Scheinbaum, Lucy Yates and Christopher Trakas

Mark Shapiro conducts and Jeanne Golan at the piano.

Based on Tom Philpotts oral history and set against the background of the Vietnam War, Glory Denied tells the true story of Colonel Jim Thompson, Americas longest-held prisoner of war. Glory Denied deals not only with Thompsons suffering in the jungle prisons of Southeast Asia, but also with the tragic aftermath that followed his liberation. It is, above all, the story of an American family under the stress of extraordinarily difficult circumstances.

» Friends and Enemies of New Music presents
A Joint Piano Recital
Jeanne Golan and Mark Peloquin, pianists

Music of Eric Moe, Tom Cipullo and recent Pulitzer Prize winner Yehudi Wyner, as well as Steven Burke and David Del Tredici

Thalia Concert Hall at Symphony Space, NY
Monday, June 12 at 8 PM

» Panel Discussion and Performance:
Old Friends, New Music

Moderator: Richard Lalli

Panel: Jeanne Golan, Jorge Martin and Mark Shapiro

Dwight Chapel,
Yale University,
Friday, May 26, 2006

» Composers Concordance Concert

Program includes Viola Sonata of Ted Wiprud, with violist Ralph Farris

Christ and St. Stephen’s Church
120 W 69th St. NYC
Friday, November 11 2005, 8 PM

» Cantori New York presents
An Evening of Premieres for Chorus, Piano and Percussion
Mark Shapiro, Conductor

New York Society for Ethical Culture
Saturday November 5, 2005 at 8 pm
with Francoise Murail, Ondes Martenot?and Anna Reinersman, harp

Roger Calmel – Stabat Mater (US premiere)
Berthold Goldschmidt – Letzte Kapitel (US premiere)
Paul Crabtree – An American Persephone (World premiere)

» Brooklyn Philharmonic Off the Walls Series
Brooklyn Museum of Art

Sunday, May 1, 2005, 3 PM

Solo and chamber music of Zorn, Cage and Roumain

» Collections & Recollections
Music for Voice and Piano, with Mary Nessinger, Mezzo Soprano

See Pet Projects for more info and audio samples!

Inaugural Program of The Harold P. Golan Talking Stick Series
Hosted by Morse Institute Library, Natick, MA
Saturday, September 18, 2004, 7:30 pm

Vassar College Recital Series
Skinner Hall, Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
Saturday, November 6, 2004, 7:30 pm