Music for a Silent Spring – Rachelle McCabe, piano & Kathleen Dean Moore, spoken word
Free
- Rachelle McCabe, piano
- Kathleen Dean Moore, spoken word
Johann Sebastian Bach — Selected works
Jean Sibelius — Selected works
For a world that has lost almost half its songbirds, Corvallis-OSU Piano International presents a Wider Visions concert, "Music for a Silent Spring." In a concert that is both celebration and elegy, pianist Rachelle McCabe and writer Kathleen Dean Moore weave musical performance and the spoken word in a call to defend Earth's wild music. The performance includes compositions by Chopin, Bach, Sibelius, and others, with essays about albatross and sapsuckers, courage, and hope.
About Corvallis-OSU Piano International
Building a culture of piano in Corvallis – through performance, outreach, and education, we broaden the appreciation and celebration of piano music in our community.
https://corvallispiano.org/About Rachelle McCabe, piano
Rachelle McCabe is Professor Emeritus of Music at Oregon State University and an internationally acclaimed concert pianist and artist teacher. She has concertized as soloist and chamber musician throughout North America and the United Kingdom, as well as in Europe, China, and Southeast Asia.
As concerto soloist Rachelle McCabe has appeared with many orchestras including the Seattle Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Victoria Symphony, and the Corvallis-OSU Symphony. Her solo recital performances include concerts at The National Gallery in Washington DC, the Goethe Institute in Singapore, and the Findhorn Institute in Scotland. Her many chamber music partnerships include tours with the Philadelphia String Quartet, clarinetist David Shifrin of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Boston violinists Yuri and Dana Mazurkevich, and flutist Torkyl Bye of the Oslo Philharmonic. She performs in chamber music festivals such as the Chintimini Festival in Oregon, the Highlands Festival in North Carolina, Chamber Music Northwest in Oregon, and the Victoria International Music Festival in British Columbia. With her sister Robin McCabe, she performs duo piano concerts nationally and internationally.
Believing in the power of music to affect change, Rachelle McCabe has created innovative programs with acclaimed writer/philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore to address the crisis of global extinction and climate change. They have taken their programs across the USA and Canada. Their powerful program, Variations on a Theme of Extinction, weaves Rachelle’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli with Kathleen’s spoken narrative. An acclaimed film version entitled The Extinction Variations was created by Brooklyn-based filmmaker Nara Garber in 2019.
Rachelle McCabe is Artistic Director of Corvallis-OSU Piano International with its prestigious Steinway Piano Series, community concerts and festivals, and educational outreach programs. She also co-directs the annual OSU Chamber Music Workshop, a summer camp for young musicians.
A highly respected teacher, Professor McCabe taught hundreds of college piano students at Oregon State University until her retirement as a full professor from the university in 2020. She was named a Master Teacher at Oregon State. She now teaches an independent piano studio and appears frequently as an artist teacher and adjudicator, nationally and internationally. In the 2022-23 season she judged competitions and festivals in Seattle (Seattle Young Artists Music Festival), Hong Kong (The Hong Kong Schools Music Festival), Portland (Oregon Music Teachers Association), and Alaska (Alaska Piano Competition in Anchorage), and taught master classes in Atlanta (Emory University), Seattle (Seattle Pacific University) and at the University of Oregon in Eugene. In 2018, she taught master classes in Beijing at Renmin University, China Conservatory and Capital Normal University. Earlier in her career, Rachelle McCabe served as an Artist in Residence and was appointed as affiliate faculty member at La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore.
Rachelle McCabe holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Michigan where she studied with Gyorgy Sandor and Theodore Lettvin. She earned her Master’s degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Ania Dorfmann, and her Bachelor’s from The University of Washington with Béla Siki. Additional teachers were Willard Schultz, Gary Graffman, and Leon Fleisher.
http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/rachelle-mc-cabe