calendar of events

Bearing Witness
Kirsten Whitson, cello

Music for solo cello reflecting genocide, global racial injustice, and cultural loss.

Repertoire:

• Thirty-Eight Tears- Timothy C. Takach
• Khse Buon – Chinary Ung
• Sonata No. 1 for Solo Cello – Mieczyslaw Weinberg
• Three Pieces for Solo Cello – John Williams
• Finding Refuge Together – Jocelyn Hagen
• Having Wept – Gina Kancheli

Bearing Witness
Kirsten Whitson, cello

Music for solo cello reflecting genocide, global racial injustice, and cultural loss.

Repertoire:

• Thirty-Eight Tears- Timothy C. Takach
• Khse Buon – Chinary Ung
• Sonata No. 1 for Solo Cello – Mieczyslaw Weinberg
• Three Pieces for Solo Cello – John Williams
• Finding Refuge Together – Jocelyn Hagen
• Having Wept – Gina Kancheli

The Midwinter Convention is MMEA’s annual professional development convention. The state’s largest gathering of music educators features nationally-recognized headliners, a wide variety of performances and informances, sessions from area presenters, P.I.T. Stop Sessions for practical instrument tips, an Exhibit Hall, and tons of networking.

At the conference, the Minneapolis Brass Ensemble will performance a new instrumentation of Jocelyn’s piece Hands.