Join
us for a benefit performance for Two Spirit Press Room and the 2008
20th
International Two Spirit Gathering
The Twin Cities Debut of Pianist Tim
Hays
Performing selected works from
Native American composer Louis
Ballard (Quapaw/Cherokee)
Bach, Scarlatti, Bartok, Debussy
Photo
credit: Prescott McDonald
Date: Saturday,
January 5, 2008
Time 7:30
PM
Place All
God’s Children Metropolitan Community Church
3100 Park Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407 - 612.824.2673
Cost: $10
suggested donation-everyone will be admitted
Contact: Richard
LaFortune – 612.267.1682/ twospiritpressroom@yahoo.com
“This keyboardist's fine ability to handle
complex ornamentation was on display immediately….Mr. Hays's Scarlatti sound
was brilliant....superb playing, bright and energetic…. fine playing... The
overall sound was superb, and Mr. Hays has a brilliant tone and a steely touch
to match. He is especially adept at individual note definition and command of
internal dynamics." New
York Sun Review
Meet the artist immediately after the
program for light refreshments and a post concert discussion moderated by the
First Nations Composer Initiative
"Nebraskan pianist Tim Hays
kicked off the new season
of concerts at St. Paul's Chapel on Monday with a lively and upbeat recital.
Much more than just a performer, Mr. Hays is a strong advocate for his Native
American culture, and is perhaps best known in New York for his work at the
American Indian Community House.”
Program
Domenico
Scarlatti (1685-1757) Sonata
in B-flat, Kirkpatrick 544
Cantabile
Sonata
in B-flat, Kirkpatrick 545
Allegro
Johan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) From
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book
2-
Prelude & Fugue in F-sharp
minor, BWV 883
Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) From
Preludes, Book 1 (1909-10)-
La serenade interrompue- The interrupted serenade
Bela Bartok (1882-1945) om
Mikrokosmos, Book 4 (1929-36,
rev. 1940)-
Notturno
Melody in the Mist
From the Island of Bali
Bourree
Louis Ballard (1933-2007) Four
American Indian Preludes (1963)
(Quapaw/Cherokee)
Ombaska - Morning: Pre-dawn
Tabideh - The Hunt
Nikatoheh - Love Song
To’Kah’Ni
- Warrior Dance
Titles are in
Quapaw language.
Johann
Sebastian Bach English
Suite no. 5 in E minor, BWV 809
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Passepied
1 & 2
Gigue
Program performed without
intermission.
Tim
Hays (Ho Chunk) was born and raised in Nebraska, began piano studies at 13, and
at 17 he played the Ravel Concerto in G with the Omaha Symphony; his teachers
have included Beth Miller-Harrod, Dr. Vladimir Sokoloff, Paul Badura-Skoda and
Tedd Joselson. He is the first Native American pianist to present solo recitals
at both the Institute of America Indian Arts in Santa Fe and the American
Indian Community House in New York. He has played on the Dame Myra Hess series
in Chicago, was invited to appear with Jens Nygaard and his Jupiter Symphony
and will present a recital at St. Paul’s Chapel, near the WTC site, in New
York. His affiliations include the Cleveland Ballet, Chicago City Ballet, the
Joffery & Feld Ballets, and the American Ballet Theater; in Europe he was
affiliated with the Opernhaus Zurich in Switzerland and the Opern du Rhin in
France. As cultural advocate for Native peoples he has been interviewed in the
Chicago Sun Times and the Voice of America.
He has curated performance works at the Randolf Street
Gallery in Chicago, and the triptych Singing, Speaking, Dancing in Beauty,
Continuum, and CEREMONY in New York. His work recently appeared in Genocide of
the Mind, a new anthology of emerging and established Native American writers.
He is the member of the staff at the House Manger’s Office at Carnegie Hall.
