The Classical Revolution Phoestival begins at 6:30 pm and takes place inside Trinity Episcopal Cathedral on four stages. Hosted by the Phoenix Chorale and Trinity Episcopal Cathedral and presented by Classical Revolution Phoenix, the Classical Revolution Phoestival features a variety of chamber ensembles including:

• Phoenix Chorale - 6:30pm & 8:20pm in the Cathedral
• Marion Roose Pullin Arizona Opera Studio Artists – 7:00pm in Atwood Hall; 7:30pm in the Auditorium
  
• Paradise Winds (woodwind trio) – 7:00pm & 9;00pm in the Auditorium
• Estrella Consort (saxophone quartet) – 6:30pm & 8:30 pm in Atwood Hall
• Paradisa! (piano, flute, cello) – 7:30pm & 9:00pm in Atwood hall
• Valley Brass Quintet – 6:30pm & 8:30pm in the Auditorium
• Joseph Higginbotham (guitar) – 6:30pm & 8:30pm in the Olney Gallery
• Erik W. Goldstrom performs on the Great Cathedral Organ at Trinity Cathedral – 8:00pm in the Cathedral

Take a listen to Paradisa!:

 

CLASSICAL REVOLUTION PHOESTIVAL
March 4, 2011 – 6:30-9:30 PM
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (100 W. Roosevelt St., Phoenix)

To see the entire Phoestival schedule, click the image above.

Check out images of some of the performers by clicking here. The Classical Revolution Phoestival is made possible with the support of the Phoenix Chorale, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Arizona Opera, KBAQ 89.5 FM, ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, and Classical Revolution PHX.

Scavenger Hunt participants looking over their answers with Stacy Bertinelli of KBAQ.

So, the First Ever First Friday Scavenger Hunt was a big success!  We had a lot of fun putting this event together and watching it unfold.  Everyone was talking about it in the weeks leading up to last Friday and I couldn’t believe how many people had heard about it.  It was our opening event of the season and we gave away lots of cool door prizes, got to hang out with our friends at KBAQ, and made lots of new friends — including some zombies.  I had heard about the Zombie Lurch a couple of days before so I was prepared (and a little scared because I DO NOT like zombies).  Luckily for me, they were nice zombies.

Scavenger Hunt answer boards

In the end, the Scavenger Hunt proved to be pretty difficult.  I’m sure many of you are dying to know the answers, so here they are (we promise to make it a little easier next year!):  Scavenger Hunt Answers.

The Grand Prize Winner is Kristi Maekawa.  Kristi’s Grand Prize Package included: 2 Season Tickets to the Phoenix Chorale, a one-night stay at The Clarendon Hotel, gift certificates to MADE Art Boutique, dinner at Cheuvront’s, a KBAQ CD Box Set, and a Phoenix Chorale CD Box Set.

(l to r) Zombie, Jon Town, Zombie, Zombie, Sterling Beeaff, Jenna De Valk

Door prizes included KBAQ t-shirts, hats, CDs, Phoenix Chorale CDs and concert tickets, a gift certificate to Portland’s Restaurant, and free coffee from Fair Trade Cafe.  Everyone that attended the event received a free MP3 download of “Phoenix,” a new work premiered by the Chorale earlier this year and written by our Composer-in-Residence Ola Gjeilo.  Thanks goes to all of our sponsors for helping make this event happen.

Special thanks to our friends at KBAQ – Sterling Beeaff, Katrina Becker, Jon Town, and Stacy Bertinelli – for their help in putting this event together.

To see more photos from the First Ever First Friday Scavenger Hunt, click here.

It’s going to be pretty cool. You can test your knowledge of the downtown Phoenix art scene all month long – and enter to win cool prizes! We’ve teamed up with our favorite radio station, KBAQ 89.5 FM, and we’re challenging you to identify 18 images of things you’d see on the First Friday Art Walk.

The contest begins today, First Friday, September 4 at the Roosevelt Tavern (816 N. 3rd St., Phoenix) at 5 pm. Stacy Bertinelli from KBAQ will be on hand with entry forms so you can get started. Or you can download and print your own entry form, see the photo clues and contest rules here.

The contest ends on First Friday, October 2 at our Free Open Rehearsal inside Trinity Cathedral (100 W. Roosevelt, Phoenix). Come by the rehearsal and drop off your entry form – and stick around for the rehearsal, meet the peeps at KBAQ, and enter to win cool door prizes.

The Scavenger Hunt Grand Prize Winner will be announced on KBAQ 89.5 FM on Monday, October 5 at 8 am.  All results will be posted at www.kbaq.org. Happy hunting!

I asked Ryan how he felt about the headline in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle and he laughed saying, “Family and friends sent it to me, the response was incredible. It’s something that I mentioned in that paper’s interview and there is some truth in it.”

To give you a better idea of Ryan, he attended the University of Wyoming studying violin and he received a degree in music education in 2001. Soon after he moved to Denver where he taught orchestra and choir at a middle school for three years.

Ryan moved to Phoenix to obtain a master’s degree in music education at Arizona State University and joined the Phoenix Chorale in March 2005. He learned of the Chorale through his roommate, Phoenix Chorale tenor Erik Gustafson. “I found out through Erik, and other people in the choir, including Laura Inman,” says Ryan. “They needed a substitute baritone at a concert five years ago. I guess I was in the right place at the right time!”

Recently, Ryan traveled to Los Angeles with other members of the Chorale to the 51st Grammy Awards where they were up for four Grammy nominations. The Phoenix Chorale won the Grammy for “Best Small Ensemble Performance,” recognizing the choir’s fantastic performance ability.

Today, Ryan is an instructor at Arizona State University and has held this position for four and a half years, conducting and assisting the ASU Choral Ensembles and is the Director of Music at The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany. Outside of being musically inclined, Ryan enjoys the outdoors including running, lifting, camping, fishing, traveling to Colorado, Wyoming, and being with good friends at Four Peaks and Old Chicago in Tempe.

For now, Ryan hopes to complete his DMA this year where he plans, as he says “…to be the next Charles Bruffy and never step into a school again—unless it’s to make some money!” Ryan says he enjoys his time with the Phoenix Chorale and all the good times with his colleagues and friends that this musical group provides.

It has been awe-inspiring for me to write about one of the Phoenix Chorale’s singers and learn more about who he is, his dreams and his future plans. The “music nerd” and Grammy Award-winning singer Ryan Garrison, has certainly established his heart in music sharing it with his students, colleagues and friends.

You can meet Ryan at our free First Friday Rehearsal Friday, March 6 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. on Roosevelt Row. Details here.

-Erika Eve Gonzalez, Public Relations Intern