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Music

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2004

  • December 11, Music Journeys INC, Coyne Performing Arts Center, Syracuse, NY, Jerome Kitzke — Breath and Bone
  • September 24, SAY  WHAT?  The Cutting Room, New York City.
    A 3-concert exploration of music and the spoken word at the Cutting Room in New York City. Will include world premieres of new works written for Russo by Derek Bermel and Marc Mellits, plus premieres and performances of new works by Rzewski, Kitzke, ter Veldhuis, Baltakas, and Silverman.
  • August 21 & 22, From the Gutter to the Sky. The life and music of a legend, Jacques Brel. Belger Arts Center, Kansas City
  • April, Contemporary Music Festival, Wichita State University.
    Jerome Kitzke — Breath and Bone, Alone on a Hill in a Grandfather Night

Selected past performances

2003

  • November, Strega Nona, Paul Mesner Puppets, Kansas City
  • September, New Ear, Sofia Gubaidulina — In croce
  • June, Soloist with the Concord Chamber Orchestra from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bronislaw Kazimierz  Przybylski — Concerto Classico
  • May, Kansas City Ballet, Moving Sketches, choreographer — Jorge Laico
  • February, AHA Dance Theatre, Breath: An Improvisation
  • January, Chicago Accordion Club, duo with Beau Bledsoe

2002

  • November, UMKC Composer’s Guild Concert Series, Julia Alford Fowler — A mothful for alto saxophone and accordion
  • November, New Ear, Chiel Meijering - No Pain, No Gain, Jacob Ter Veldhuis — Insonnia
  • October, Carlsen Center Recital Hall, duo with Beau Bledsoe, JCCC
  • June, Solo recital, Alabama, Troy,
  • June, Solo Recital, Chicago Accordion Club

2001

  • May, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, Kurt Weill — The Threepenny Opera
  • April, UMKC Musica Nova, Sofia Gubaidulina — De Profundis
  • March, The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Department of Music and Dance, Music Midst Us, Kansas Symposium of New Music & SCI Region VI Conference, Lied Center, Paul Rudy — “Out of crooked Timber…”
  • February, Soloist with the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Alan Hovhaness — Rubayat, music director Jeannine Wagar

2000

  • November, Solo recital, Sacred Heart Church, Columbia, Missouri
  • September 25, Soloist with the UMKC Accordion Orchestra, Paul Rudy — “…Out of Crooked Timber…”
  • July, ATG, Paul Rudy —   “Out of Crooked Timber…” commissioned piece for the UMKC Accordion Orchestra and Accordion Soloist, Lidia Kaminska
  • June, Solo Recital, Polish-American Accordion Association
  • June, Solo Recital, Chicago Accordion Club
  • March, Solo Recital, Texas Accordion Convention
  • March, UMKC Percussion Ensemble, Garth Farr — Volume Pig

1999

  • January, Solo Recital, the Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw

1998

  • September, Solo Recital, Bruckner-Conservatory, Linz, Austria
  • June, Soloist with Kielce Philharmonic Orchestra, Bogdan Dowlasz  — Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra