Catherine
LeGrand and Kenneth Grigg have been performing together
since 1991; their concerts have been described as
“buoyant”, “scintillating” and “transcendent”.
The name Senza Misura,
means “without measure,” representing the high level of
musical expression and freedom they enjoy in their
ensemble.
Senza Misura has performed in
concert series and at colleges and universities across
the South and Midwest. Appearances include Kerville
Performing Arts Society and the Foundation for Modern
Music in Houston. Senza Misura has also been
recorded and broadcast by KUHF Radio in Houston.
Catherine LeGrand serves as Adjunct
Professor of Flute at Campbell University and joyfully
tends a large private studio comprised of students of
all ages and levels in North Carolina and on the
Internet. She was a pioneer of interactive Internet
flute lessons, accepting her first students in 2000. She
has three albums in current release including Inspirations:
Music for Solo Flute. Her websites and blogs have
provided resources on breathing, music-making, and
creative pedagogy since 2001.
Her teachers
include Keith Underwood, Paige Brook, Loren Lind, Kyril
Magg, Jack Wellbaum, Robert Cavally, and June Warhoftig;
she received her B. M. and M.M. from the University of
Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music with
additional studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Catherine served as Principal Flute of the Houston Grand
Opera’s Texas Opera Theater Orchestra, Piccolo of the
Lexington Philharmonic (KY), and has performed
frequently with Houston Symphony. She has also performed
with Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, West Virginia
Symphony, and Houston Ballet Orchestra.
Among
her previous teaching contributions, she was Flute
Instructor and Flute Choir Director at the School for
Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, Flute
Consultant at the High School for Performing and Visual
Arts in Houston, and Instructor of Flute at San Jacinto
College.
Catherine enjoys combining her passions
for teaching, performing and traveling as a frequent
guest artist and clinician. Currently serving on the
Board of Directors of the Raleigh Area Flute
Association, Catherine is a former Board Member and
Co-President of the Houston Flute Club.
For more
information about Catherine and her teaching please
visit
www.catherinelegrand.com and
www.myflutorials.com.
Kenneth
Grigg has concertized throughout the United
States, Canada, and Italy; he attended the North
Carolina School of the Arts, was a National Merit
Scholar at Oberlin College from which he received
bachelor's degrees in piano and English, and holds a
master's degree in piano from the University of Texas.
Mr. Grigg is active as recitalist, coach,
teacher, chamber musician, collaborative pianist, and
clinician; he has toured with the Oberlin Choir, the
Arius Chamber Players, the Virginia Opera, and Eurythmy,
and has prepared projects ranging from Peter Brook's
Marat/Sade (the Governor's School of North Carolina) to
Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron (Opera de Lyon). Some
recent engagements include Indiana University
(Bloomington); the Eastman School of Music (Rochester);
the University of Washington (Seattle); the Art and
Culture Center (Hollywood); the Texas Flute Festival;
the Superior Music Festival; the Fort Bend Symphony
(Houston); the University of Iowa; The Academy
(Boulder); North Carolina School of the Arts
(Winston-Salem); Ripon College (Wisconsin); the Museum
of Contemporary Art (Denver); Campbell University (North
Carolina); Alverno College (Milwaukee); Kirkwood
(Birmingham); the Governor’s Schools of Alabama and
Pennsylvania; the New School for Folk Music (Chicago),
and the annual conventions of the National Flute
Association and the International Society of Bassists.
His professional travels have taken him to Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Italy, Gibraltar,
Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, the United
Kingdom, and Uruguay. Mr Grigg has just
finished coaching, preparing, and performing multiple
times with thirty-five high school instrumentalists on
wind instruments ranging from piccolo to tuba; the
repertoire for their competition included pieces such as
the Ibert Flute Concerto, the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto,
the Weber Grand Duo Concertant, the Stekke Variations
for Trombone, the Brahms Horn Trio, the Babin
Hillandale Waltzes, the Dutilleux Sonatine, the Francaix
'Lhorloge des fleurs', the Vaughan Williams Tuba
Concerto, the Tansman Sonatine for bassoon, the
Hindemith Trumpet Sonata, and many other large works. Mr
Grigg's most recent international trip was to Australia
and New Zealand, where he stayed for fourteen weeks
coaching and concertizing.
A
beautiful buoyant sound -- clear
articulation -- a spinning vibrato -- pure
tuned intervals -- subtlety in phrasing and
shape -- long phrases -- J. M. Houston, TX |
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