Latin Fervor, a chamber music concert with exciting Latin American music, featuring JMU Piano Professor Paulo Steinberg, guest cellist Susan Lamb Cook, and guest violinist Ian Jessee, performing works by Villa-Lobos, Villani-Cortes, Camargo Guarnieri, Manuel Ponce, and Astor Piazzolla.
Susan Lamb Cook is faculty affiliate in cello and chamber music at the University of California, Davis, and a member of the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera. Her solo performances include those with the Sacramento Philharmonic, the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, the Reno Philharmonic, the Cairo Symphony (Egypt), the Paradise Symphony, the Camellia Symphony, and the Classical Music Festival Orchestra, Austria. She has performed numerous concerts and given master classes throughout the US, Europe, and China.
Ian Jessee is an active chamber musician, orchestral player and teacher throughout the United States and Europe. Mr. Jessee performs regularly with the West Virginia Symphony (acting assistant principal second violin), the River Cities Symphony Orchestra (concertmaster), the Ohio Valley Symphony (principal second violin), and served as assistant concertmaster of the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria this summer. In addition, he has served on the faculty of the international music festivals Akademi Datça and Klasik Keyifler in Turkey, and the Saarburg Festival in Germany.
Paulo Steinberg has performed as a soloist and as a collaborative pianist across the U.S., Canada, South America, and Europe, including venues such as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, and the Theatro Municipal de Sāo Paulo, Brazil. He offers masterclasses, lectures, workshops, and performances in the U.S. and abroad. His research interests include Brazilian music and piano technique. One of his four CD albums, “Alma Brasileira,” was recently featured on the Brazilian film, “As Cadeiras.”
