Lisa Ormston Bontrager performs at MSU
The mid-Michigan community will have a rare opportunity to hear a native St. Johns High School graduate in a recital close to home when Lisa Ormston Bontrager presents a recital of French Horn music Nov. 8, beginning at noon in the Music Auditorium of the College of Music on the campus of Michigan State University.
Ormston Bontrager is “one-half” of Mirror Image, an acclaimed horn duo that includes Michelle Stebleton. They are joined by pianist Tomoko Kanamaru in the program featuring a variety of works from Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) to Raymond Chase (b. 1970). The duo has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe and recorded on the MSR Classics label.
Ormstron Bontrager is an acclaimed soloist and chamber musician, having performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, including tours with the internationally award-winning Pennsylvania Quintet and the versatile Millennium Brass that performed at the St. Johns City Park Performance Shell. She has won numerous awards including the 2008 Faculty Scholar Medal for the Arts and Humanities from Penn State University.
She served as a member of the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society from 1993-99 and was just re-elected again in 2009.
A 1978 graduate of St. Johns High School, Ormston Bontrager holds performance degrees from the University of Michigan and is currently a Distinguished Professor of Music at Penn State University.
Stebleton has performed worldwide, traveling to 26 countries to serve as a soloist, chamber artist and clinician. She also studied at the University of Michigan and currently teaches horn at Florida State University where she has won two teaching awards.
Tomoko Kanamaru made her first public performance with a professional orchestra at the age of nine in Japan. She has since then been seen in numerous concert venues in the world, including Carnegie Hall in New York. She is currently on the faculty at The College of New Jersey where she teaches piano.
Admission to the recital is $10 for General Admission, $8 for Senior Citizens (age 60 or older) and free for students with ID and anyone under 18 years of age. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
