Guest Artist Recital: Mafer Guglielmina, flute, and Joseph Lecher, piano

Sunday, February 23, 2025
7:30 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students

Guest artists Mafer Guglielmina, flute, and Joseph Lecher, piano, present a recital titled "Our Heart, Our Soul," featuring works by Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger, Miguel Del Aguila, Rhonda Larson, Tania Leon, and Valerie Coleman.

Peruvian flutist Mafer Guglielmina is Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Texas at El Paso. A versatile and sought-after performer and educator, she has recently been a featured concerto soloist with ensembles such as the UTEP Wind Ensemble, the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola Big Band in Peru, the Miami Sousa Band, the Frost Wind Ensemble, the Penn State Chamber Orchestra, the Penn State Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and the Western Michigan University Symphony Orchestra. She has earned numerous solo prizes in international competitions, including the Silver Medal in the Berliner International Music Competition, Peru's Concurso Internacional de Flautistas, the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Young Artist Competition (Pennsylvania), the White Lake Young Artist Competition (Michigan), and the Wisconsin Flute Festival Collegiate and Young Artist competitions.

She holds a doctoral degree from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, and master's and bachelor's degrees in music from Pennsylvania State University and Western Michigan University, respectively. During her time in Miami, she served as a mentor to undergraduates and K-12 students through the Shalala MusicReach Program, an outreach program that aims to enrich the education of under-served youth in the Miami-Dade community through innovative music education programs while providing Frost School of Music students with opportunities to develop their teaching and community engagement skills. She also served as Adjunct Flute Instructor at Westminster Christian School and ran her own private flute studio.

She has performed with the El Paso Ballet Theatre International Orchestra, Napa Valley Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, Palm Beach Symphony, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Naples Festival Orchestra, Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, and Penn's Woods Music Festival. She has recently been a featured guest artist at the Eastern Iowa Flute Workshop, Perú's Festival Internacional de Flautistas, Flautistas del Perú, and the Venezuelan Festival de Flauta Manuel Guadalajara. Following her passion for scholarship in Latin American music, her latest published essay, "Miami Flute Suite" by Miguel del Aguila: A Musical and Cultural Study, features an analysis of Brazilian choro, Latin jazz, tango, and Uruguayan milonga, as well as an interview with the composer himself. She is now serving on the National Flute Association's Career and Artistic Development Committee. Mafer Guglielmina is proud to be a Wm. S. Haynes Co. Young Artist.

Wisconsin native Joseph Lecher is currently a professor of piano and music theory at the University of Texas at El Paso. He holds degrees in Piano Performance from Carroll University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in France. He has been a soloist with the Lake Country Orchestra and has toured with the Carroll University Wind Ensemble. He is a guest performer with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra, the El Paso Ballet Theatre International Orchestra, and was a guest pianist for the 2023 MusicMexico Symposium in Houston. He has premiered works by Sigmund Snopek III, Crawford Gates, Jim Colonna, Julie Giroux, and will premier works for cello and piano by Benjamin Robichaux.

He is the artistic director of the Lake Country Chamber Ensemble in Wisconsin and on the founding committee for the Borderland Chopin International Competition. Joseph is twice the winner of the Milwaukee Music Teachers Association Artist and Debut Series Competition, and the Medaille d'argent recipient of the Concours National de Piano de Chatou, France.

His former teachers include Oscar Macchioni, Judit Jaimes, Elena Abend, Cécile Edel-Latos, and Margarita Kontorovskaya. Aside from his university position, he is an active collaborative pianist in the desert southwest and performs regularly with his wife, cellist Alina Vazquez.

Location Information

Sherman van Solkema Recital Hall

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Contact Information

Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance
(616) 331-3484

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This event was added to the calendar by Bridgett Vanderhoof (vandebri@gvsu.edu) on Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 7:27 p.m.