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Ticket Price$15
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Duration1hr 20min
- Thursday, October 1, 2020 7:00PM — Online
History and Folklore
From Bach’s colorful, inventive Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 to Gabriela Lena Frank’s Leyendas, take a musical journey spanning three continents and 300 years.
The first concert in our “Live from the Temple” series opens with Bach’s colorful, inventive Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Next, Debussy’s Sacred and Profane Dances, featuring Principal Harpist Erin Brooker-Miller, pairs lush harmonies with rich textures. Gabriela Lena Frank’s Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout draws from Peruvian writer José María Arguedas’ concept of mestizaje, where cultures can coexist without the subjugation of one by the other. The folk traditions of Leyendas connects to Bartok’s energetic and lively Romanian Dances. Finally, Argentinian tango composer Astor Piazzolla brings the program to a hauntingly melodic end with Oblivion.
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Joseph Giunta Conductor
One of America’s most distinguished, versatile and dynamic conductors, Joseph Giunta is a musician of international acclaim. He is recognized as an important American conductor for his innovative programming and for his compelling interpretations of traditional and new music. His musical depth combined with his boundless energy and contagious enthusiasm makes him one of the most respected and successful orchestra leaders in the United States.
Erin Brooker-Miller Principal Harp
Erin Brooker-Miller is a Classical and Irish harpist with a passion for orchestral and chamber playing.
Erin is the Principal Harpist of the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra. Since joining the orchestra in 2017, she has been featured several times as a soloist and chamber musician including performing the Mozart Flute & Harp Concerto with then Principal Flutist Kayla Burgraff (Oct 2018), twice playing on the orchestra’s chamber series “Spotlight at the Temple” (2018, 2019), and performing two livestream solo concerts (2020). Erin has performed with many additional orchestras including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Asheville Symphony Orchestra, Akron Symphony Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and Quad City Symphony, among others. She has participated in the Round Top Music Festival, Fresh Inc Festival, and Saratoga Harp Colony.
Happiest playing music with others, Erin was a founding member of the flute, harp, and percussion trio, Archaea Tree Ensemble, a member of the pop harp quartet HarpCore4, and has performed in an Irish harp and violin duo with her brother, Brennan Brooker, since 2004. They now perform as Goodfoot with her husband, Andy Miller on bodhran. Passionate about working collaboratively with composers, in 2015, Archaea Tree Ensemble hosted a weeklong festival retreat called Troublesome Gap. The festival invited five composers from across the United States to write new works for the trio and culminated in a standing room only concert premiering the five new compositions.
Representing the United States, Erin competed and won numerous awards in traditional Irish music competitions in solo harp, duo, trio, and Grúpaí Cheoil categories at regional and All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoils between 2002 and 2010. Most notably, she won the Bronze medal for solo harp in 2007 and was a member of the Grand Prize winning Grúpaí Cheoil in 2002, the first time since 1957 that an ensemble from outside Ireland won that category. Erin was named an Alternate for a prestigious Fulbright Grant to Ireland in 2014.
Also an accomplished Arts Administrator, Erin served as the Executive Director of the USA International Harp Competition for five years leading the organization to two of the most successful competitions in its thirty year history.
Erin received a Master’s degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a Bachelor’s degree as a Chancellor’s Scholar from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Her principal classical teachers include Susann McDonald, Dr. Ann Yeung, Elizabeth Hainen, and Ayako Watanabe; her principal Irish teachers include Eileen Gannon, Marta Cook, and Grainne Hambly. Erin lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her husband, percussionist Andy Miller, and divides her time between Milwaukee and Des Moines, IA.
