Today’s artist: Notes by Jack Frymire

What separates the gifted from the rest of us? A talent for hard work early on. (“What I wouldn't give to play like that!” we marvel. Wouldn't is the operative word.)

Take Henry From, pianist, composer, chamber musician: he began studying violin at age 3 and piano at age 5. Henry made his orchestral debut a year ago at a prestigious music educators conference. He won competitions in 2015 and 2017 with his pieces for choir and piano. In June Henry completed requirements for the college-level Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto diploma, the highest academic credential awarded by the Royal Conservatory. On Night Beat, he will play the sonata he wrote when he was 11 years old!

Many lads Henry's age will begin their school year with a paragraph titled “What I Did Last Summer.” His would be a novella: Henry was a finalist in the K���-FM young artists awards and performed on Northwest Focus Live. He spent 2 weeks at Orford Musique in Montreal and 4 weeks at Morningside Music Bridge at the New England Conservatory (NEC) in Boston, learning from master pedagogues from around the world. While at NEC, Henry played in a trio with a violinist from Calgary, and a cellist from Tel Aviv. The trio's playing was greeted by such enthusiasm that it was invited to perform in Israel this coming November!

From's frame is topped by a shock of red hair, a portent of excitement ahead as he becomes the youngest artist ever presented by the BMC.

“To foster and encourage the development of music appreciation and performance in the community”

The Newsletter of the Bellingham Music Club

Bellingham Music Club

Sept. 6, 2017, 10:30

Trinity Lutheran Church

From the President: Welcome, Friends, to our first concert of the season!

If you have joined Bellingham Music Club official-ly, we thank you for your support! Our dues pays for the operations: venue rentals, piano tuning, insurance, printing of newsletters and programs. If you are still considering becoming members, please know that every $25 you give helps us maintain!

Our awards to students with musical ability (close to 20 in five separate competitions) are totally and completely funded by your generous donations.

You continue to be the key to our support and en-couragement of high school and university music students in Bellingham and Whatcom County. It is through your benevolence, interest and love of music that the BMC has been able "To foster and encourage the growth and development of music appreciation in this community.”

Let us continue fulfilling our mission!

Kay Carr, BMC President

Next month: Seattle Historical Arts for Kids perform for BMC members and friends Wednesday morning, October 4th at 10:30 at Trinity Lutheran Church. The program is free and open to the public.

These skilled students present the pleasing melodies and beautifully lilting harmonies of French Renaissance dance music and polyphony on lute, harp, recorder, violins, and bass and tenor viola da gamba. The ensemble is led from the violin by director Shulamit Kleinerman.

Come early and join us for coffee and nibbles in the atrium starting at 9:30.

Board Notes: We are celebrating the addition of a new board member! Janey Bennett has agreed to become our new Vice President! Congratulations, Janey, and thank you! — Kay

The BMC extends a warm welcome to new members Marc and Eileen Berger, James Bullion and Jo Ann Ferrell, Ron Delbecq, Kory Diemert, Chris and George Gerhold, Patricia Jorgensen, Andrew Hallum, Dick Lovaas, and Kay Marsh, and thanks the following for their generosity: Robert and Kay Bernard, Marc and Eileen Berger, Karen Berry, Martin Bray, Bob and Wilma Bryant, Maureen Burr, Jeane Cheverton, Earl Cilley, Constance Collier, Joe and Judy Coons, June Crinkley, Charli Daniels, Will Ellender, Don Ernest, John Forgette, Jack and Ginny Frymire, Gail Haines, Denis Hayner, Scott Henderson, Barbara Hudson, Susan Jay, Jytte Johansen, Alan Kemble, Sarah Ludwigson, Bill and Thea Mancha, Eleanor Mischaikov, James and Judith Orvik, Robert and Margaret Palmieri, Ed and Carla Rutschman, Mark Schlichting, Charles and Susan Seaton, Celeste Shipp, Carole Slesnick, Orphalee Smith, Susan Trimingham, Patricia Clarke and Charlie Way, John and Kathryn Witmer, and Evelyn Wright. Thank you all! We will have an update in next Fanfare.

Become part of the BMC achievements and legacy! Music lovers like you are essential to our free Wednesday morning programs and our awards for high school and university students in Whatcom County. Your generosity helps us continue our important work to create engaging cultural experiences in our community. See Will Ellender and Charlie Way in the lobby today and join the BMC (or renew your dues) for $25! Deadline to be included in the handbook is September 15.

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The Bellingham Music Club is a non-profit which supports music in the community and enhances cultural life in the Northwest. It plays a vital role in Whatcom County by making music accessible to everyone with its free Wednesday morning concerts series, and occupies a unique niche by encouraging high school and WWU students with monetary awards. You can support BMC endeavors with donations or annual dues ($25). For more information about the BMC, pick up our brochure, see us in the lobby, visit bellinghammusicclub.org or call 360-671-0252.

Upcoming Events: Our own Scott Henderson returns with his 4th musical re-view for the BMC, this time exclusively for Night Beat at the Firehouse PAC. BELLINGHAM BURLESQUE OF 1927 is a bawdy, cabaret-style musical that takes the wraps off of a trav-eling Burlesque troupe stopping in prohibition-era Bellingham. Low comedy and high friction on stage end in a revealing act of desperation. Martha Benedict, Martin Bray, Akilah Williams Cariker, Amanda Carpp and the Top Banana, Paul Henderson, bare all through songs, dances and vintage slapstick. Tickets are $20 for all shows on Oct. 5, 6 and 7, 7:30pm. Senior rate ($15) for Saturday matinee, Oct. 7 at 3:30pm. Tickets availa-ble on sale online, at Village Books and at the door if not sold out. More information on bellinghammusicclub.org

BMC member, soprano Sherrie Kahn performs Hector Berlioz’s delightful Les nuits d'été (Summer Nights), Op. 7, with chamber orchestra conducted by Deborah Brown in a benefit concert for What-com Chorale. Sunday, Sept. 24, at 3:00 pm. $20 general; $15 seniors and students. Concert and ticket information on www.whatcomchorale.org

BMC H.S. Competition winners, pianist Trevor Elliott Johnson and violinist Yoshimi Lin, will open the Bellingham Festival of Music annual meeting at Lairmont Manor on Thursday, Sept. 28 at 7:00. Details for the 2018 season will be announced, with refreshments to follow. All are welcome.

Whatcom Symphony Orchestra opens its 42nd season with rising star Benjamin Beilman, known for his intense and simmering perfect sound – he is the ideal soloist for Sibelius’s romantic and lush Vio-lin Concerto. The program also features Mendelssohn’s lively & spirited Scottish Symphony. Sunday, October 8 at 3:00 pm. Details on whatcomsymphony.com.

ABOUT THE BMC:

September 6, 2017

ProgramProgramProgramProgram

Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-sharp major, BWV 848 J. S. Bach

1685-1750

Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Andante Grazioso 1756-1791

Minuetto and Trio

Allegretto: Rondo alla turca

Córdoba (from Cantos de España, Op. 232) Isaac Albéniz

1860-1909

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This summer, Henry was a finalist in the KING FM 2017

young artist awards, and a scholarship participant in

programs at The Orford Music Academy (2 weeks,

Montreal), and Morningside Musicbridge International

(5 weeks, New England Conservatory, Boston).

Come and hear Henry in a full-length

program tomorrow, Sept. 7 at 7:30pm

at First Congregational Church. Henry

plays works by Bach, Mozart, Chopin,

Albéniz, Prokoviev, Ravel and Berg in

addition to the Sonata he wrote when

he was 11 years old!

Get your tickets for Night Beat today in

the lobby. $20 adults/$15 seniors. Bet-

ter yet, get an annual subscription for

the whole season for just $75!

“Take-a-teen-for-free” to all Night Beats

at First Congregational!

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BiographyBiographyBiographyBiography

Henry From has studied piano at the Vancouver Academy of Music (VAM) with Donna Lee-

Leung since he was 5 years old. Many other musicians have taught and inspired him as well.

He studies violin with Bellingham teacher Sandra Payton, with whom he started lessons at

age 3½. Other regular teachers include Edward Top (composition), Andrew Dawes and

Joseph Elworthy (Chamber Music), Kathleen Allan (Voice), Amanda Chan and Michelle

Mares (piano). He has also been lucky enough to play in Masterclasses by Jon Kimura

Parker, Richard Goode, Ian Parker, Joyce Yang, Ilya Yakushev, the Shanghai Quartet, the

Apollon Musagete Quartett, and he has taken summer institute piano lessons from Lee Kum

Sing, Jeffrey Gilliam, David Moroz, Krzysztof Jablonski, Ethel Fang, and Merlin Thompson.

Henry made his orchestral debut playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12 at the Biennial

Conference of the Suzuki Association of the Americas in Minneapolis (May 2016). This

conference was attended by over 1000 music teachers from 15 different countries. In October

2016, Henry played Beethoven's 3rd piano concerto with the Vancouver Academy of Music

Symphony Orchestra in Vancouver's historic Orpheum Theatre.

An enthusiastic composer, Henry has had his works played by numerous ensembles around

the Pacific Northwest including the Vancouver Chamber Choir, the Black Dog String Quartet,

the Fraser Valley Wind Ensemble, and the Music for Winds ensemble. In 2015 he won the

Middle School category of the Vancouver Chamber Choir's Young Composer's Competition

for his piece for choir and piano entitled Life is but a Dream. In 2017, Henry won the High

School category of the above competition for his piece for choir and piano entitled Finale.

Henry has a passion for chamber music. For several years his ensembles have been invited

to take part in the finals of the Vancouver Friends of Chamber Music Young Musicians

(FoCM) Competition. Last year his piano trio was awarded 2nd prize in this competition for

their performance of the Haydn Piano Trio in G Major (the "Gypsy"). This year his trio was

again awarded 2nd prize at the FoCM completion, this time playing the Turina Piano Trio

No.2, Op 76 in B minor. Henry also plays violin in the Vancouver Academy of Music

Symphony Orchestra.

Henry's interests outside of music include mathematics, writing, reading fiction, geography,

camping, sketching, gardening, and playing with the family cat and chickens.

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