FREE INAUGURAL CONCERTS
FRIDAY, MAY 9th 6:30pm at MUSIC VILLAGE in SAN JOSE
2971 UNION AVENUE, at FOXWORTHY AVENUE
SUNDAY, MAY 11th 6:30pm in SAN LORENZO
1666 VIA BUENA VISTA
LIVE MUSIC, FREE FOOD & BEVERAGES, GREAT PEOPLE!
Flutists Hanyu Sun, Barbara Rave, Cathy Lemeshewsky, Amy Hanson, David Hill, Zahin Helal, and Director Kris Palmer
PROGRAM
Concerto in G Major K.313 Allegro Maestoso by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Amy Hanson, Soloist
Symphony No. 7 Allegretto by Ludwig van Beethoven
Ashokan Farewell, Jay Ungar
Of Wizards and Witches by Phyliss Avidan Louke
THE MEMBERS
Amy Hanson began studying flute in elementary school and performed with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra in high school. Her teachers included William Hebert of the Cleveland Orchestra and Lois Schaefer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She performed as a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in Boston while earning a degree from Harvard University, and she is a former member of Symphony Parnassus in San Francisco. Amy is a product marketer for a software company, and she is performing as the concerto soloist on Mozart’s G Major Flute Concerto at Music Village Flutes’ inaugural concert.
Zahin Helal has been playing the flute for 20 years and currently studies with Ai Goldsmith. His musical journey launched in high school where he played in the marching band, small ensembles, pit orchestras, and solo shows. He was selected as a member of the Santa Clara County Honor Band. Since graduating from college, Zahin has played in numerous ensembles including Cupertino Symphonic Band, Ohlone Community Band, and multiple flute quartets. Zahin is a graduate of Santa Clara University and works as a technical recruiter. He loves spending quality time with friends and family, eating delicious food, going on long walks, and obsessively listening to music.
David Hill dominated his middle school alto saxophone section and Texas All Region Honor Band, because East Texas marching bands didn’t let boys play the flute in 1986. Still mad about the flute thing, he switched to electric guitar, at which he proved to be fairly incompetent, allowing him to focus on his editorial career. A few months before the Covid Pandemic, he bought himself a flute, because his son was taking lessons from Kris Palmer, and who doesn’t want to do that? Luckily, most of the fingers still worked from his long-ago saxophone days. He rocks the bass flute in Music Village Flutes’ inaugural concert.
Cathy Lemeshewsky began her musical studies on the flute in elementary school and later performed with the U. C. Santa Cruz Orchestra. During her career in Japan, she studied Western classical flute with the principal flutist of the Nagoya Philharmonic and pursued traditional Japanese music through formal study of the Kinko-Ryu shakuhachi. Following an extended hiatus from the flute to focus on a career in Silicon Valley while raising twins, she is now actively re-engaging with performances and musical studies.
Barbara Rave is a graduate of Arizona State University, where she studied flute with Joe Corral. She completed her degree in Business Computer Information Systems and paved a 38-year career in the aerospace industry with Lockheed Martin. She has served as a software and systems engineer as well as a project manager of data warehousing and analytics teams. After a 15-year absence, she reunited with the flute and performs frequently at open mic shows in San Jose as a soloist and chamber musician. She studies the flute with Kris Palmer.
Originally from the city of Nanjing in China, Hanyu Sun is a software engineer with a passion for playing the flute. She performed in the University of Pennsylvania’s college flute ensemble, The Penn Flutes while earning her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science, and she is a former member of the Googler Orchestra. She frequently performs chamber music with friends, with recent performances of one of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti and Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto. She studies the flute with Sarah Benton, and she enjoys skiing and ice skating while away from making music.