"conveying the wonder, poignancy, beauty and drama of the human condition through live music."
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"Ms. Diehnelt has become "one of the people to watch" in Chicago's ever eclectic music scene. She can be found appearing with many of our city's best orchestral and chamber ensembles."
-- Saori Chiba
Pianist and Chamber Musician
"She's the real deal."
-- Michael Goode
Founder and Principal Trumpet
Chicago Reading Orchestra
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Upcoming Events
Conductor
Ensemble Warhol
Contrapose Dance
The Fort Point Theatre Channel
Calderwood Pavilion
Boston, MA. June, 2011
The Classical Connoisseur
Heart Murmurs: Love and Longings in Music
Niles Public Library
February 12, 2011
The Classical Connoisseur
Baroque: An ear for the bizarre
Niles Public Library
November 7, 2010
Recent Events
The Classical Connoisseur -
A wine-tasting approach to classical music
Niles Public Library
June 2010
Elgar Society - North America Branch
inaugural conference in Philadelphia, PA
presenting: "Podium Time with Elgar"
March 2010
Expert Commentary on Beethoven - Composer of the Month
Kim’s Beethoven commentary is featured on NAXOS CD ODES TO JOY
Chamber Music Coachings
Sessions throughout Fall 2009
Ossia Fine Arts Space
May 9th, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
Fine Arts Building
410 S Michigan Ave, Ste 537, Chicago, IL
773.220.2356
www.ossiaspace.com
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures
Elizabeth Hale Knox, Mezzo-soprano
Saori Chiba, Pianist
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Cello Sonata
Racheli Galay-Altman, Cellist
Saori Chiba, Pianist
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Live from the Morse
May 24th, 2009, 11 .a.m.
Broadcast live on WFMT 98.7 FM
Morse Theatre
1328 Morse Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60626
www.themorse.com
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures
Elizabeth Hale Knox, Mezzo-soprano
Saori Chiba, Pianist
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Cello Sonata
Racheli Galay-Altman, Cellist
Saori Chiba, Pianist
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Kim Diehnelt established her craft as a conductor and artistic coach in Finland and Switzerland where she worked with the South Bohemian Chamber Orchestra, and Russian and Baltic ensembles. In Helsinki, Ms. Diehnelt founded the Helsinki Camerata, a group dedicated to a chamber music approach to orchestral works. She was Director of Chamber Music at the Musicology Department of Helsinki University and Music Director of the Helsinki Community College Orchestra.
In the United States, Ms. Diehnelt has been Music Director of the Southwest Minnesota Orchestra, Opera Millennium (MN), and the Chicago Reading Orchestra. Ms. Diehnelt was selected to attend the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen with David Zinman in 2002.
Ms. Diehnelt is an authority on the music of Edward Elgar. The Elgar Society in England has sponsored Kim’s conducting of Elgar’s Symphony No. 1, the tone-poem In the South, and the Cockaigne Overture. Kim regularly speaks on Elgar: His story, his music, coaches performers on Elgar's works, and sponsors recitals and live radio broadcasts of Elgar's chamber music. In 2010, Ms. Diehnelt was asked to be a founding member of the Elgar Society - North America Branch; she presented Podium Time with Elgar at the inaugural conference in March, 2010.
Read Kim's complete biography
Maestra Diehnelt is also the Classical Connoisseur, presenting a wine-tasting approach to music. Classical music is one of the world’s pleasures: an art to explore, savor, and enjoy. As the Classical Connoisseur,
Kim guides listeners through tastings of qualities, styles, and characters of music and performers. With a focus on music as an event to experience, rather than an object to dissect, she provides insights into tuning-in, comparing sound events, and building a hearing-vocabulary and sensitivity to metaphor. In this ground-breaking approach - and in her dynamic personal manner - Maestra Kim “conducts” listeners to greater perception and enjoyment of this great art. (Presentations can be paired with actual wine-tastings)
"The Classical Connoisseur fills an urgent need of today’s listener. Audiences are hungry to explore what it is they are hearing – not in terms of the anatomy of music, but through discovering music’s ability to create metaphor - and enchantment."
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Elgar
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Works
The British composer Edward Elgar is known in the States today only through his “Enigma Variations” or the famous “Pomp and Circumstance” march tune. The Variations were written before 1900, and there is much more orchestral repertoire from the 30 years that followed. Elgar’s temperament could swing from high spirits and wittiness to complete despondency and doom. Elgar’s works are very personal, with much more rubato and full-bloodedness than expected. His music speaks to humanity.
Elgar was a romantic composer from the time of Mahler and Strauss, around the turn of the century. He didn’t invent a new language of music, but furthered the orchestra’s palette through his self-taught style of composing and hands-on knowledge of each individual instrument. He raised the orchestra’s level of expression.
Contact Kim for program consultation, performance coaching and conducting.
More on Edward Elgar
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Artistic Coaching
Kim Diehnelt, conductor and score tutor, offers one-on-one coaching for performers, composers, and conductors. Kim will work with you or your ensemble to deepen your perspective of a musical work and polish your performance by providing critical, discerning, and respectful feedback.
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Press
In 2008, Ms. Diehnelt curated a monthly chamber music series at the Center on Halsted in partnership with Lakeside Pride Music Ensembles. Read the press release from the January concert here.
The 2006 CRO Summer Session highlighted the works of two contemporary composers: Memories from My Previous Lives by the Silk Road Competition winner Angel Lam, and Dance Aurora by the recent Mahler Competition winner Bjorn Berkhout.
Read the commentary from the Chicago Reader.
The Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest recently celebrated their 75th anniversary with a concert honoring women in music, including their founder, Gladys Welge. Maestra Diehnelt conducted the concert which included the US premiere of a work by female composer, Angel Lam.
Read the review in the Wednesday Journal.
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