35th Anniversary Season 2021—2022
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May
Kevin Vigneau & Friends - Music for Oboe and Strings
The 2021-2022 season finale concert for Placitas Artists Series (PAS) will feature chamber
music for oboe and strings. New Mexico oboist Kevin Vigneau, bassist Toby Vigneau, cellist
Alan Weinstein, violist Kim Fredenburgh, and violinist Elizabeth Young will present
chamber music compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Ernest John
Moeran, and contemporary composers.
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Kevin Vigneau is professor of oboe at the University of New
Mexico and principal oboe of the New Mexico Philharmonic
and the Santa Fe Pro Musica.
He has performed with Music from Angel Fire, the Santa Fe
Chamber Music Festival, the Banff Festival, the South African
Broadcasting Society, the Mistral Wind Quintet, the New
Mexico Winds and the Kandinsky Trio. As a recitalist and
soloist he has performed in Ecuador, South Africa, Brazil,
Portugal, Canada, Mexico, Holland, Germany and at many
colleges and universities.
He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Yale University where
he was awarded the Dean’s Prize for the outstanding member of
the graduating class. He studied with Ronald Roseman, Ralph
Gomberg and Laurence Thorstenberg.
He is proud to be the husband of violist Kimberly Fredenburgh
and the father of bassist Toby Vigneau.
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Violinist Elizabeth Young has performed at Carnegie
Hall, Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Radio City Music Hall,
and The United Nations, among other notable
venues in New York City, as well as the National
Gallery of Art and the Embassy of Italy in
Washington, DC.
A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, she
has appeared on the BBC, CBS, and CNN, and she
has performed concerts throughout the United
States and in Canada, Mexico, France, Germany,
Austria, Luxembourg, Italy, and Oman. After over a
decade working as a full-time musician in New York
City, Elizabeth moved to Santa Fe, where she has
performed with the Santa Fe Opera, the New Mexico
Philharmonic, the Santa Fe Symphony, the New
Mexico Performing Arts Society, and Chatter. She
continues to travel nationally for chamber music and
solo performances as a violinist and pianist, and in
2018, she was the violin soloist with the Santa Fe
Community Orchestra in their performance of the
Sibelius Violin Concerto.
She is the Orchestra Director at Gonzales
Community School in Santa Fe.
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ALAN WEINSTEIN, cellist, is a founding member of the
Kandinsky Trio, winner of the Chamber Music America
Residency Award, the NEA American Masterpieces Grant
and a NEA Meet the Composers Award. He has performed
throughout North America and Europe in venues including
Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Miller Theatre, Spivey Hall, the
Kennedy Center, and the Edinbrough Fringe Festival. He
frequently collaborates with internationally acclaimed
artists including Dawn Upshaw, Ida Kavafian, Kurt
Rosenwinkle and Andrés Cárdenes.
Mr. Weinstein holds degrees in music performance from
the New England Conservatory of Music and the Eastman
School of Music. His principal teachers include Steven
Doane, Robert Sylvester, Timothy Eddy and chamber music
studies with the Cleveland Quartet, Menachem Pressler,
Walter Trampler, and Eugene Lehner.
His dedication to new music has led him to premiere
compositions by artists such as Mike Reid (“Tales of
Appalachia” performed in over 150 cities), Richard
Danielpour, and Hilary Tann. His jazz collaborations have
included performances with Larry Coryell, Kurt
Rosenwinkle, Dave Samuels, and as a harmonica player
with Ray Charles.
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Tobias Vigneau has established himself as one of the
most sought-after double bassists in New Mexico.
He is a member of the Santa Fe Symphony and
Santa Fe Pro Musica and has performed with the
New Mexico Philharmonic, Chatter, and
Performance Santa Fe.
A flexible musician, he has appeared with popular
artists such as Evanescence, Lindsey Stirling, and Il
Divo. He was a first-prize winner in the Jackie
McGehee Young Artist Competition and performed
as concerto soloist with the New Mexico
Philharmonic. He has spent two seasons with the
Aspen Music Festival orchestras and was awarded a
prestigious fellowship in 2019. He was selected for
the Pirastro Strings Elite Soloists Program at the
University of North Texas. He has performed in the
Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival
in South Africa and the University of New Mexico
Summer Music Institute.
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Violist Kimberly Fredenburgh, originally from New York,
is a professor of viola and chamber music and serves as
head of the string area at the University of New Mexico.
Fredenburgh has been featured as a soloist and chamber
musician across the United States, including Puerto Rico,
South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Canada,
Portugal, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Monaco. She is the
principal violist of the Santa Fe Symphony and Santa Fe
Pro Musica. She is also the associate principal violist of
the New Mexico Philharmonic. She has performed many
seasons with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the
Santa Fe Opera, and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale; she is
regular performer with Chatter. Fredenburgh has served
on the faculty at Arizona State University while also
performing as associate principal of the Phoenix
Symphony for seven years and was a principal violist in
the New World Symphony in Miami under Michael
Tilson Thomas. She has delivered pedagogical papers
and performed at several national string conferences and
international competitions. Her interest in contemporary
music has resulted in the creation of many new works for
the viola. Recent performances include European
premieres of chamber works by University of New
Mexico composers.