Daniel Schwab on the clarinet and Natasha Stojanvska on piano will perform The Nielsen Clarinet Concerto at the TGIF concert on September 22. Doors to the sanctuary open at 5:15pm and the concert begins at 5:30pm. The concert is free with a free-will offering taken.

Eschewing the large classical concerto form, Nielsen has cast the Clarinet Concerto in one continuous movement. It begins with a firm Allegretto un poco, relieved by a more songful second theme. There is much stormy strife between the soloist and piano. This is followed by a Poco adagio, interrupted several times by quicker, more disturbed sections. The final part is an energetic Allegro vivace, but a return to the Adagio brings the work to a “calm severity,” with the key of F major ultimately triumphant.

Daniel Schwab is a historic preservation planner at the City of Santa Fe. He has performed as classical clarinetist in Germany and the US, been a Zen monk in San Francisco and managed the educational program at Schumacher College, in Totnes, UK. He studied planning at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany and worked for the city of Heide, Germany, before moving to Santa Fe. He has experience in bicycle-oriented traffic planning, urban regeneration, and historic preservation. His scholarly work focuses on the epistemological and structural implications of the human-nature relationship for urban planning.

Natasha Stojanovska completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at The Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University, Chicago IL in the studio of James Giles. She received her Artist Diploma and Master of Music in Piano Performance from Indiana University South Bend with Alexander Toradze and Ketevan Badridze; Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Lynn University, Conservatory of Music with Roberta Rust. In Europe she studied with Todor Svetiev and Margareta Tatarchevska. Ms. Stojanovska has performed solo and chamber music recitals in France, Portugal, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania, South Korea, Haiti and the United States.