Virtuoso Series Concert: Juhyun Lee, Piano

With Guest Artist Norman Menzales, Flute

Collaborative pianist and chamber musician Dr. Juhyun Lee is joined by Filipino American flutist Norman Menzales, principal flutist with the Great Falls Symphony of Montana, for her inaugural Virtuoso Series Concert as a CSU faculty artist. The program includes Sonata for Recorder and Basso continuo, HWV 362 by G.F. Handel, Sonata for Flute and Piano, op. 14 by Robert Muczynski, Infinity for Flute and Piano by Amanda Jane Fox, and Sonata for Flute and Piano by Lowell Liebermann.

Dr. Lee received her M.M. in Collaborative Piano from the Longy School of Music where she studied with Brian Moll. During her time in Massachusetts, she worked as the primary pianist for the saxophone studios at the New England Conservatory, Boston University, and Boston Conservatory, where she worked with the renowned saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky. After she completed her master’s degree, she worked as a staff pianist at Longy School of Music. Dr. Lee has performed in a large number of recitals, concerts, and new music festivals, including a world premiere performance of Charles Strouse’s Sonata for Horn and Piano and Armand Qualliotine’s Duo for Piano and Alto Saxophone. As an orchestral pianist, she performed in Jordan Hall as a guest keyboardist with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in 2014.

Dr. Lee continued her studies with Andrew Campbell at Arizona State University, where she received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano and Chamber Music in 2019. At ASU, she served as a teaching assistant, received special talent awards, and was the primary pianist for the ASU’s top large ensembles, including the ASU Symphony and Wind Orchestra. In 2016, she attended the professional program SongFest in Los Angeles, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine as a performance associate awarded with a full scholarship.

As an active collaborator, she was invited to perform at the 47th National Flute Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2019 and Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention in Washington D.C. in 2020, and to be the staff pianist at MCC’s Summer Flute Project in Mesa, Arizona. She performed in faculty recitals and a chamber music concert and has been appointed as a returning guest artist for the MCC Summer Flute Project in the following year.

Dr. Lee published A New Piano Reduction of the Nielsen Flute Concerto in December 2019.

Norman Menzales Promotional PhotoFilipino-American flutist Norman Menzales joined the Great Falls Symphony of Montana
as Principal Flute in September 2012 and holds the same position with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra and Colorado’s Fort Collins Symphony.

Praised for his “…warm, attractive sound” by the Winston-Salem Journal, Menzales has performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic in New York, Chattanooga Symphony, and the Western Piedmont Symphony in North Carolina, among others.

He has also appeared at the Aspen, Bowdoin, Colorado College, Eastern and Sarasota Music Festivals, and shared the stage with notable conductors and performers including Marin Alsop, Joshua Bell, Renee Fleming, Alan Gilbert, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Gil Shaham, Leonard Slatkin, and David Zinman.As a soloist, Menzales was awarded top prizes in Young Artist Competitions sponsored by the Atlanta, Central Ohio, Pittsburgh, and Rochester Flute Associations and performed concerti with the Fort Collins Symphony, North Carolina School of the Arts Solisti Symphony, the Eastman Chamber Orchestra, and Ars Nova Musicians of New York. An enthusiastic educator, Menzales is on the music faculty at the Festival Internacional de Loja in Ecuador and Western Nebraska Community College. He also maintains a private studio in Montana and gives online lessons to students across the country. Menzales is a founding member and president of the Montana Flute Association, a non-profit organization whose goal is to cultivate, promote, sponsor, and develop the appreciation of the flute and flute music among its members and the general public. Born in Macon, Georgia, Menzales has a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where he studied with Dr. Tadeu Coelho and a Master of Music and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music where he served as a teaching assistant for world-renowned flutist and pedagogue, Bonita Boyd.

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Schedule & Tickets

Nightly at 7:30 pm
Cost: No Charge/ CSU Students, $4/youth (under 18), $12/senior (62+), $14/adult

Organizer: School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
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