Karen Bentley -- Upcoming Performances

Home Upcoming Performances Recordings CDs and iTunes Bio Friends Photos Poetry	Upcoming Performances January 20, 2011 in Miami April 26-27, 2011 in Czech Republic May 2-6, 2011 in Birmingham May 8, 2011 in Birmingham July 29 & August 1, 2011 in Highlands August 18, 2011 in Loveland September 23, 2011 in East Stroudsburg September 29, 2011 in Brooklyn October 23, 2011 in Seattle November 1, 2011 in Seattle November 5 & 6, 2011 in Evergreen and Dillon, CO December 7, 2011 in Denver May 11, 2012 in Burlington See past performances
	Thursday, January 20, 2011 Miami, Florida Clarke Recital Hall Frost School of Music University of Miami 3 P.M. 26th Annual SEAMUS National Conference Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Heather Stebbins: the forgotten dialect of autumn (2009) Dorothy Hindman: Fantasia for Karen Alone (2009) Charles Norman Mason / Sheri Wills: METAMAN for Violin and Digital Sound and Video (2009) See here for more info

Review from 2010 performance April 26 publicity:	Tuesday, April 26 and 27, 2011 April 26: Olomouc, Czech Republic April 27: Jesenik Priesnitz Spa 7:00 P.M. Solo Violin with Alternating Currents Karen Bentley Pollick, violin & piano Michael Angell: Capital Spheres David Jaffe: Impossible Animals Brian Moon: Duetto con Bobik Charles Norman Mason: Metaman Traditional: Cluck Old Hen -- Variations for Violin Dan Tepfer: Solo Blues for Violin and Piano Alex Shapiro: Vista for Violin and Prerecorded Electronics Dorothy Hindman: Fantasia for Karen Alone Zack Browning: Sole Injection See here for more info Read this paper on the creation of Metaman

	Monday May 2 through Friday, May 6, 2011 Birmingham, Alabama Vulcan Park and Museum 1701 Valley View Drive 11:30 A.M. Vulcanalia A ballet in one act for violinist, percussionist, and five dancers for Vulcan Park and Museum Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Grant Dalton, percussion Roger van Fleteren, Choreographer Phillip Ratliff, Composer

See this flyer	Sunday May 8 Birmingham, Alabama Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham 4300 Hampton Heights Drive 4:00 P.M. Mother's Day Recital and Benefit for the Tornado Relief Effort in Alabama Bach: Toccata and Fugue in A Minor (transcribed for violin) Brustad: Eventyrsuite Jaffe: Cluck Old Hen Variations for Solo Violin Cohen: Blues Etude Ratliff: Vulcanalia for Violin and Percussion Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Grant Dalton, percussion

Review from August 1 on CVNC.org	Friday July 29 and Sunday, August 1, 2011 Highlands, North Carolina Highlands Performing Arts Center Highlands/Cashiers Music Festival Friday: 6 P.M. Haydn: String Quartet Op. 33 Beethoven: Violin Sonata in C Minor, Op. 30 Brahms: String Sextet in G Major, Op. 36 Karen Bentley Pollick, viola Sunday: 5 P.M. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins Barber: Adagio for Strings Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Karen Bentley Pollick, viola More info

Click to view	Thursday August 18, 2011 Sunrise Ranch Loveland, Colorado 5:30 P.M. Quid Novi Jam A recent arrival to Colorado, Karen Bentley Pollick will debut at the Quid Novi Jam at Sunrise Ranch in Loveland on August 18, 2011 performing her favorite repertoire for solo violin, viola and Norwegian hardangerfele. Selections will include: Salsa for Karen by Swedish composer Ole Saxe, David A. Jaffe's bluegrass inspired Cluck Old Hen Variations, Blues Etude by Jeremy Cohen, Duetto con Bobik, featuring the vocals of Karen’s hound dog Bobik by Alabama composer Brian C. Moon, Fanitullen (Devil’s Dance) for hardangerfele, and The Red Curtain Dance for solo viola by Colorado composer Ofer Ben-Amots. Sunday: 5 P.M. Tickets: www.sunriseranch.org Festival info: www.quidnovifestival.com

	Friday, September 23, 2011 East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania ArtMusicCoffeeHouse.com 63 Chariton Drive 8:00 P.M. EST Electric Diamond Renaissance live webcast Listen live


	Thursday, September 29, 2011 POSTPONED Brooklyn, New York Bargemusic (under the Brooklyn Bridge) 8:00 P.M. Sam Adams: Piano Trio (world premiere) with Two Sense Lisa Moore, piano and Ashley Bathgate, cello

	Sunday, October 23, 2011 Seattle, Washington Century Ballroom 915 East Pine, 2nd floor 1–3:30 P.M. Waltz Cafe Your Chance to be ‘in the Movies’ With the Valse Café Orchestra Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Dave Bartley, guitar Toby Hanson, piano/accordion Eric Likkel, clarinet Dennis Staskowski, bass See more info about Waltz Cafe here

See article from SummitDaily.com See program notes	Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Seattle, Washington Chapel at Good Shepherd Center 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North (4th floor) 8:00 P.M. Seeing through Sound: chamber music by Ivan Sokolov Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Ivan Sokolov, composer/piano Russian composer/pianist Ivan Sokolov returns to the Chapel at Good Shepherd Center for a program of his chamber works with piano and strings. Violinist Karen Bentley Pollick joins Sokolov in his sonorous Solnechnaya Sonata for Violin and Piano and hypnotic Viola Sonata, featured repertoire from their duo CD <amberwood>. Violist Laura Renz and cellist Page Smith will join for the world premiere of Sokolov’s Piano Quartet composed in 2010.

	Saturday and Sunday, November 5 & 6, 2011 November 5: Evergreen, CO Church of the Hills Presbyterian 28628 Buffalo Park Road 6:00 P.M. November 6: Dillon, CO Lord of the Mountains Lutheran 56 Highway 6 4:00 P.M. Seeing through Sound: compositions by Ivan Sokolov Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Ivan Sokolov, composer/piano Evergreen violinist/violist Karen Bentley Pollick will debut with Russian composer/pianist Ivan Sokolov in recital at Church of the Hills Presbyterian in Evergreen, Colorado on Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 6:00 pm. Sokolov's sonorous Solnechnaya Sonata for Violin and Piano and hypnotic Viola Sonata are featured repertoire from their duo CD along with duos by Czech composer Jan Vičar and Swedish composer Ole Saxe. Also on the program are Sokolov's profound Elegie for Solo Viola and transcendent In The Heaven for Solo Piano, and Four Preludes by Dmitri Shostakovich. Complete program notes. For info Nov. 5: 303-675-6641 / Nov. 6: 970-468-6809

	Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Denver, CO King Center Recital Hall, Auraria Campus Metropolitan State College of Denver 855 Lawrence Way 7:30 P.M. Electric Vivaldi: Global Solstice Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Ivan Sokolov, composer/piano Gregory Walker will be dusting off his guitar chops for the occasion, with a crack chamber ensemble, including the dynamic duo of Hardanger virtuosa Karen Bentley Pollick and Irish fiddler Mintze Wu, multi-percussionist Josh Reagan, synthesist Lori Walker, Boulder Philharmonic and Boulder Chamber Orchestra principals Aniel Caban, Marcelo Sanches, and Dale Day, as well as Colorado Public Radio host David Rutherford. Together, we'll play Vivaldi, Corelli and Walker's own composition Global Solstice that merges traditional and classical music from his travels into a nostalgic yet challenging odyssey of holiday madness. Watch Tickets: UCD Student: $5 General Admission: $12.00 Senior: $7.00 Non-UC Denver Student :$7.00 Box Office: www.ahec.edu/kingcenter/main/box_office.html or 303-556-2296 Free Parking

	Friday, May 11. 2012 Burlington, Vermont Flynn Theatre Paul Dresher Double Duo Paul Dresher, quadrachord Joel Davel, marimba lumina Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Lisa Moore, piano Tickets: $25 www.flynntix.org/Productions/Details.aspx?perfNo=7511&perfCodePrefix=FST12D