Women (Em)Powered

Sunday, Mar. 20

3:30 PM

Tickets

Women (Em)Powered: A Benefit Concert for St. Margaret's House

Christ the King Lutheran Church
17195 Cleveland Road
South Bend, IN 46635

Women (Em)Powered is a concert to raise money for St. Margaret's House, a women's day center in downtown South Bend. Women come for meals, help with job applications, companionship, various social services, clothes, health services, children's programming, and much more. It is a place where everyone is welcomed and met with kindness and respect.

This concert is part of a semester-long partnership between the St. Mary's College music department and St. Margaret's House. Guest artist and pianist Clare Longendyke will perform along with St. Mary's faculty member and violist Rose Wollman. Special guests mezzo-soprano Hillary Doerries and pianist You Min Lee will be featured as well. These accomplished and versatile artists will perform works by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Nadia Boulanger, and Augusta Read Thomas, as well as Astor Piazzolla, Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, and more.

In addition to the concert, there will be a raffle of exciting prizes, including CDs by the musicians and silk scarves made by artists from St. Margaret's House. The music will be interspersed with testimonials by St. Margaret's House guests and staff for a powerful afternoon of inspiring music and uplifting stories. All proceeds from the concert and raffle will go to St. Margaret's House. Please join us! 

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Clare Longendyke:

Clare Longendyke is an award-winning pianist whose dazzling musicianship and colorful interpretations delight audiences wherever she performs. Recognized by colleagues and listeners for the expressive energy and originality she brings to new and traditional classical music, the effervescent soloist and chamber musician won four national competitions and was a finalist in several others during the past decade.

Set apart by her inspiring touch and captivating way of sharing music, Longendyke is a sought-after soloist, performing over 50 concerts a year in North America and Europe. Recent orchestral partners include Boston’s Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Minnesota. BSO conductor Manny Laureano says working with Longendyke is “an incredible pleasure.” Other conductors have called her “a world-class pianist.”

Longendyke’s appeal has earned her spots as a featured soloist in notable concert series such as National Public Radio’s Performance Today, the Fazioli Piano Series in Los Angeles, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ SoundBites Series. She has also performed at renowned festivals, such as the Alba Music Festival in Alba, Italy, European American Musical Alliance in Paris, France, the Académie du Festival Pablo Casals, in Prades, France, the New Music on the Point Festival in Vermont, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine.

Before earning master’s and doctoral degrees at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Longendyke completed degrees at Boston University's College of Fine Arts, and the École Normale de Musique in Paris. The ardent Francophile and French-speaking pianist received the Harriet Hale Woolley Award in the Arts to study music in France as an undergraduate.

Longendyke blends a passion for music’s classical tradition with an equal affection for what she calls “the music of our time.” Her advocacy for innovative music and programming are evident through two music ensembles she co-founded, CT:2 and Uproar Duo, as well as Music in Bloom, a new music festival she founded in 2019.

In less than a decade, she has premiered over 100 new compositions and performed the music of today’s most exciting living composers—works by Joan Tower, Frederic Rzewski, Mason Bates, Vivian Fung, Gabriela Lena Frank and others. Recent recordings include Homage to Nadia Boulanger: Works for Viola and Piano with Rose Wollman, and In the City, new works for Saxophone and Piano with Andrew Harrison. ​

When Longendyke isn’t on tour, she divides her time between Indianapolis and Pittsburgh. In Indianapolis, she is Artistic Director of Music in Bloom; in Pittsburgh, Executive Director of Resonance Works. She also leads master classes at some of the nation’s most recognizable conservatories, including the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Hailed as "a sparkling pianist" by the Hyde Park Herald, Longendyke is on track for a transcendent career as a soloist. Her efforts to bring innovative musical experiences to public places and historic sites earned her a nomination for the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Women of Influence award in 2019.

Rose Wollman:

Praised for her multifaceted interpretations of classical and contemporary music, violist Rose Wollman is sought after as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher, and orchestral musician. She has performed in venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall, the KKL, the Kennedy Center, the Krannert Center, and Constitution Hall.

A champion of promoting and performing new music, Rose has commissioned, premiered, and performed many pieces, working with groundbreaking composers such as Pierre Boulez, Augusta Read Thomas, David Dzubay, Gabriela Ortiz, Mario Lavista, and Don Freund. Recent projects include a CD with pianist Clare Longendyke titled Homage to Nadia Boulanger, performances of a Concerto for Viola, Winds, and Percussion dedicated to her by Brian St. John; a Kennedy Center performance of “SeeNoHearNoSpeakNo” by Don Freund that Rose commissioned for Viola, Bass, Percussion and three dancers; and a performance of Emile Naoumoff's viola sonata at the American Viola Society Festival in Los Angeles, CA.

Equally adept in ensembles of all sizes, Rose has performed with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra under Pierre Boulez, the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra under Fabio Luisi, the Portland Symphony, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. She has served as principal violist of the Evansville Philharmonic and Cape Cod Symphony. Rose was the founding violist of both the Petar Jankovic Ensemble, a chamber group comprised of string quartet and guitar, and the Larchmere String quartet. PJE toured extensively in the United States and Europe, and released a CD titled From Spain to Tango. The Larchmere String Quartet toured the United States, Canada, and Europe, and recorded a CD titled Stephan Krehl Clarinet Quintet and String Quartet which was released in 2016 on the NAXOS label. Rose has collaborated with many diverse artists such as Atar Arad, Michael Kannen, Jeffrey Dunham, James Buswell, Rachel Barton Pine, choreographer Elizabeth Shea, tango pianist and composer Julián Peralta, tango bassist Pablo Aslan, and Latin jazz percussionist Michael Spiro and trombone player Wayne Wallace. ​

Rose currently teaches viola, chamber music, and ear training at Saint Mary's College; and viola, ear training, and music theory at the University of Notre Dame. Additionally, she has taught viola and chamber music at the University of Evansville, DePauw University, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and the University of Illinois. She worked as a teaching assistant for Atar Arad at Indiana University, Mai Motobuchi at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, and Masumi Rostad at the University of Illinois. Rose holds a D.M. in viola performance with a minor in music theory from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She also holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of Illinois. Her primary teachers are Atar Arad, Carol Rodland, Masumi Rostad, Rudolf Haken, and Julia Adams.

Hillary Doerries:

Indianapolis native Hillary J. Doerries is the Director of Music Ministries at Christ the King Lutheran Church (ELCA) in South Bend, Indiana, where she directs the Sanctuary Choir, the Alleluia Quartet, the Alleluia Ringers, and Christ the King's contemporary praise ensemble, Xalt! Ms. Doerries is also active in Christ the King's blossoming mental health ministry. A member of CtK's Community Ministry Grant Team, she was instrumental in procuring a $30,000 matching grant from the Center for Congregations in Indianapolis. This grant helped Christ the King develop a series of ministries to address issues of loneliness, isolation, and personal and social wellness in the local community. Ms. Doerries encouraged the team to consider starting a local chapter of Fresh Hope for Mental Health, a weekly support group for people living with mental health diagnoses and their loved ones. In addition to serving as a trained facilitator for Fresh Hope, Ms. Doerries instituted the formation of a Mental Health Ministries Team to ensure that other group facilitators are provided appropriate support for their ministry roles and offered opportunities for continuing education and community partnerships with area mental health professionals. Fresh Hope currently meets at Christ the King on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8:00 PM. All are welcome.

Ms. Doerries believes that when people share their authentic stories of suffering and loss, they are liberated and empowered to take steps towards understanding, self-awareness, and healing. She blogs and speaks publicly about her personal experiences with mental illness and her own continuing journey toward wellness. Ms. Doerries travels the country to promote the healing connections between music, liturgy, and community mental health ministry. She presented a lecture entitled All My Hope on God is Founded: Mental Health and Hymns that Heal for an annual conference of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. She later reprised this lecture for the St. Joseph Valley chapter of the American Guild of Organists. In addition, each fall, Ms. Doerries collaborates with SEASONS Counseling of Michiana to create a community hymn festival in honor of National Mental Health Awareness Week. This festival features the musical ensembles of Christ the King Lutheran Church, along with several other performing forces within the community. It is an evening that offers participants opportunities to engage in praying and singing our laments together as neighbors and friends with the hope of healing, recovery, and wellness.

Ms. Doerries received her musical training at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, earning double Bachelor of Music degrees in Organ and Vocal Performance. Her voice teachers included Patricia Stiles and Patricia Havranek. In 2011, she completed her Master of Music in Organ and Church Music, studying organ under Dr. Marilyn Keiser, Mr. Todd Wilson, and Dr. Jeffrey Smith. During her graduate school years, she was Dean of the IU-Bloomington Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, worked as an accompanist for the Indiana University Children's Choir under Ruth Boshkoff and Dr. Brent Gault, and held church music positions in Bedford, Speedway, and Indianapolis.

In 2017, Ms. Doerries began her doctoral studies at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. As a candidate for the Doctor of Pastoral Music degree (DPM), she hopes to continue to gain a better understanding of her role as a pastoral minister of music while examining how to better utilize her musical gifts to bring communities of faith into deeper connection with the lost, the forgotten, the marginalized, and the poor in spirit.

Ms. Doerries is a member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians (ALCM), the American Guild of Organists (AGO), the Association of Anglican Musicians (AAM), and The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. In her free time, Ms. Doerries enjoys journaling, gardening, painting, visiting Lake Michigan, doting on her nieces and nephew, and spending time with her husband, Mark, and their pupper, Lily.

You Min Lee, pianist

You Min Lee has established herself as a multi-faceted pianist, combining solo, chamber, and collaborative performances with community engagement and education.

Lee began her piano studies at the age of six in her native Korea. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Myongji University and then moved to the United States for her graduate studies. She received her masters in music at Northeastern Illinois University, graduate diploma at Roosevelt University, and was the only candidate admitted for the artist diploma at Indiana University South Bend. Lee’s teachers have included Dr. Tanya Gabrielian, Professor Ketevan Badridze, Dr. Rene Lecuona, Dr. Susan Tang, Dr. Wael Farouk, Sunghee Kim, Dr. Sumi Kwon, and she has taken master classes with pedagogues including Dr. Alan Chow, Dr. Steven Spooner, and Wolfgang Plagge. Lee has been the recipient of a number of scholarships for her studies, including the Martin Scholarship, Ruth Hanna Memorial Scholarship, Emily Vinson Stoffa Scholarship, Roosevelt University, and Myoungji University.

Since moving to the states, Lee has established herself as an active performer and frequent collaborator. She is a top-prize winner in a number of international competitions, including the Golden Classical Music Awards, New York International Competition, United States International Piano Duo Competition, and the MTNA-Stecher and Horowitz Two Piano Competition. She has been a collaborator at events including the Chicago Chamber Music Festival, Sejong Music Competition in Chicago, and the Northwestern Bienen Music Academy.

In addition to performing, Lee is strongly committed to educating new generations of musicians and music lovers in diverse settings and is passionate as an educator for the future generation. Her students have been successful in festivals and competitions including the AIM festival and the Stickley Piano competition. Lee is a faculty member at Saint Mary’s College and Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, Ind., and maintains a private studio in South Bend. About the professional membership, She is a member of the Musical Teacher National Association (MTNA) and SBAMTA the South Bend Area Music Teachers Association (SBAMTA). Lee also has successful accomplishments with her piano duo team, Sonor Piano.