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Jana Avedyan

Jana Avedyan
Jana (pronounced yah-nah) is another of our superb accompanists!
Jana Avedvan, pianist, hails from Kharkiv, Ukraine, where she studied with Glazirina Tatiana. Jana majored in piano performance. She studied with Dr. Karen Becker at SUNY Plattburgh (2007) and has participated in master classes with Evgenia Tzarov and Helen Huang. Avedyan made her debut (spring 2011) as soloist with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, playing Mozart’s Piano Concert K. 488. She completed her Bachelor’s degree with a double major in Music and Accounting (May 2012). Jana and flautist David Breisach won the annual Shain Woodwind-Piano Duo Competition (2013), Avedyan won the annual Beethoven Competition (2014).

After her studies with Christopher Taylor she graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Music (2018) as a Doctor of Musical Arts. Her dissertation explored and promoted the solo piano works of the Ukrainian Composer, Myroslav Skoryk. During her studies. she participated in master classes with Peter Miyamoto and Joel Hastings. She was a finalist at the UW-Madison Concerto Competition (2016). Her performance of Rachmaninoff’s second Piano Concerto with the UW student orchestra took place in 2017. Jana frequently attends festivals such as Brevard Music Festival and Bay View Music Festival.

We are always pleased whenever Jana can fit us into her schedule and make glorious music.

In Our Community

Water

Water: A Celebration in Song


Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of streams, lakes and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms. It is vital for all known forms of life, even though it provides no calories or organic nutrients. –Wikipedia

We join with community partners for a program celebrating the lakes and rivers that define Madison’s landscape and enrich its resident’s lives, while drawing attention to water issues in Madison and beyond. Our program includes a new commissioned work by local composer Scott Gendel, classic folk song favorites (including an original by Madison folk legends Lou and Peter Berryman!), and beautiful melodies and poetry ranging from the Renaissance to the present day.

The Program

  • Water (A Edenroth)
  • Miniwanka or the Moments of Water (R M Schaefer)
  • Sicut Cervus (GP da Palestrina/Psalm 42)
  • Wade in the Water (Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan)
  • Floating Moon on the Water (Wei-Pin Chen)
  • *A Little Water (P & L Berryman)
  • By the River (S Gendel/H Hoyt)**
  • *Shenandoah (M Bartholomew/J Erb)
  • *Roll On, Columbia (H Ledbetter/W Guthrie)
  • Boatmen Stomp (M Gray/)
  • Ecco mormorar l’onde (C Monteverdi/T Tasso)
  • Jardins sous la pluie (C Debussy) – Yana Avedyan, piano
  • Deep River (Spiritual/D Patriquin)
  • The Peace of Wild Things (J Runestad/W Berry)

Music Director: Mikko Rankin Utevsky – Accompanist: Yana Avedyan
Performed at: Trinity Lutheran Church, 1904 Winnebago St, Madison Wisconsin 53704. April 28, 2019.

*Audience sing-along
**By the River was commissioned by Choral Arts Chorale and completed by Scott Gendel in 2019.


Scott Gendel

Resilience


Resilience poster

Resilience: Meditations on a changing climate

Sunday, April 26, 2020, 3 PM
Trinity Lutheran Church, 1904 Winnebago St
Tickets $15-general admission; $10 for students.

Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, this concert was cancelled.

Program

  • Abschied vom Walde – Felix Mendelssohn
  • A Lost Hour – Thomas LaVoy
  • Mo Li Hua – Chen Yi
  • To Daffodils and The Evening Primrose – Benjamin Britten
  • Icelandic Sketches – Jason Fox
  • Earth Song –Frank Ticheli
  • There Came a Wind Like a Bugle – Scott Gendel
  • Kasar mie la gaji – Alberto Grau
  • Linden Lea – Vaughan Williams