BACH TO BLOCH TO SCHLOCK

Saturday, May 8, 2010    4:00 pm

George & Sarah Oh   25 guests    $100

With a title like this, you know you are in for a fun evening! Join cellist Jerry Bobbe and pianist Nilda Brizuela for an eclectic program at a fabulous home nestled on the gorgeous rolling hills above Pumpkin Ridge. Buffet dinner served by Claeys Catering.

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This home is located in North Plains, Oregon, approximately 30 minutes from downtown Portland. You'll enjoy a beautiful view of rolling hills from the living room of this gorgeous home. Cellist Jerry Bobbe and pianist Nilda Brizuela will perform a fun and diverse program titled "Bach to Bloch to Schlock."

Jerry Bobbe, cello

From his home in Portland, Jerry Bobbe maintains dual careers as both a professional cellist and internationally respected numismatist.  Mr. Bobbe’s primary teachers included Frank Miller of Solti’s Chicago Symphony, and the celebrated Karl Fruh. He served as Principal Cellist in both the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the Chicago Civic Orchestra, Assistant Principal in the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Symphony, and Principal Cellist of the Florida Orchestra.  For more than a decade, he served as Principal Cellist of the Vancouver (Washington) Symphony, appearing three times as soloist with that organization.  Jerry was named Portland’s Best Cellist in Willamette Week’s 1994 "Best of Portland" issue, where he was pictured on the front cover as his Charlie Chaplin cello-playing alter ego.  Along with Maria Choban, he was a founding member of the critically acclaimed piano trio St. Elvis.  In 2007, Jerry and Maria completed a recording together of the sonatas of Barber, Villa-Lobos, and Muczynski, under the Alitisa label, entitled “St. Elvis, Back in the Building.”  In early 2008, Jerry began a new collaboration with pianist Nilda Brizuela, and that duo is planning a recording of its own for early 2010.  Currently, he enjoys donating his time to fill the halls of local hospitals with cello music for the Children’s Cancer Association, as well as for the Emanuel Burn Center. Jerry performs on a cello of the Venetian master Eugenio Degani, dated 1891. 

Nilda Brizuela Martinez, piano

Nilda Brizuela graduated from the Jose White Conservatory of Music in Camaguey, Cuba and studied Musicology at the Superior Institute of Art in Havana. She taught music theory at the National School of Music in Havana and worked as recitalist and piano teacher under the direction of Cicely Winter at the Oaxaca Academy of Keyboard and Choir (Mexico). She is currently studying at Portland State University.