Faculty Recital: 'Borrowed Gems'

Michael Hart, tuba and euphonium, and Eric Kinsley, piano, perform a recital featuring works originally intended for other instruments and arranged for tuba and euphonium. The program includes Antonio Capuzzi’s Concerto for Double Bass, Richard Strauss’s Horn Concerto and Johann Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto. Hart directs the Cal Lutheran bands and teaches theory and low brass, and Kinsley teaches piano.

As director of bands at Cal Lutheran, Hart conducts the Wind Ensemble, the Pep Band and the Chamber Winds Ensemble, which he founded. He also teaches courses in music theory and ear training and provides lessons in trombone, euphonium and tuba. He has initiated several community outreach concerts and commissioned several new works for band since coming to CLU and is active throughout Southern California as a guest conductor and adjudicator.

Kinsley, who teaches piano at Cal Lutheran, is a performing artist and writer who earned a doctorate at the Manhattan School of Music. The Thousand Oaks resident has been a member of the New York Contemporary Music Band, Pacific Classical Winds and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. He has received grants in early and contemporary music from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Harpsichord Society and the Sylvia Marlow Foundation.

Donations accepted.

Image: Michael Hart