The Overland Park-based Nartan Academy of Dance has been very busy this summer.  Last weekend they performed traditional Indian dances at the Ethnic Enrichment Festival in Kansas City, Missouri, and soon they will be performing in Lansing, Kansas.  The Carnegie Arts Center and the Lansing Education Foundation have partnered with the Nartan Academy of Dance to bring you Tandav to Tarangam - A Night of Traditional Dance from India.  The program will take place on September 11, 7:00pm, at the Lansing District Auditorium, 220 Lion Lane, Lansing, Kansas.  The VIP reception will begin at 5:30pm.  General admission tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students.  VIP tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students, and include both the dance performance and the VIP reception.

Tandav to Tarangam features a variety of the traditional dances of India with beautiful sculpturesque poses and jathis (footworks).  The VIP reception taking place prior to the dance program will include heavy hors d’ouvres - vegetable pakora, chicken masala, mint and tamrind chutneys, and more - from Paradise India.  The VIP reception also includes a musical performance by Brian Frantz Scott on the sitar and Clark Jamieson on the tabla, and henna by Fatema Mukkadam.

Tandav to Tarangam - A Night of Traditional Dance from India

Saturday, September 11, 7:00pm

Lansing District Auditorium, 220 Lion Lane, Lansing, KS 66043

Tickets:  Adults - $10 general admission, $15 VIP

             Students - $5 general admission, $10 VIP

To purchase tickets, please call 913.651.0765.

Join us at Tandav to Tarangam! 

It promises to be a wonderful evening!

Carnegie Pottery Guild at Leavenworth’s First City Festival

The Carnegie Potter’s Guild will showcase their wares at Leavenworth’s First City Festival on September 10 and 11.  Members of the Potter’s Guild will be at the Bridge Tender’s House at Leavenworth Landing Park, where they will be on hand to talk to festival-goers about and sell their work.  Many of the exhibiting potters have been with the Carnegie Arts Center for many years, including faculty members Jeanette Oliver, Deb Leavitt, and Patty Hammond, and Carnegie founder Rebecca Johnson.

Image: Owl Vase by Patty Hammond

The Carnegie Arts Center is very happy to welcome two new vocal instructors to their faculty!  John and Amanda Frederick are accomplished vocalists, having performed all across the United States.  John Frederick will teach voice lessons on Tuesdays, and both John and Amanda will teach voice lessons on Saturdays when the Carnegie Arts Center begins to offer music lessons on Saturdays later in the fall.  To schedule voice lessons with John or Amanda Frederick, please contact the Carnegie Arts Center - 913.651.0765.

John Frederick recently completed apprenticeships at both Sarasota Opera and the Natchez Festival of Music.  He was recently seen as Silvio (Pagliacci) with New Opera St. Louis, as Alfio (Cavalleria Rusticana) with Kansas Concert Opera, and Dottore Dulcamara (L'elisir d'amore) with DuPage Opera Theatre.  Active as a concert soloist, he has performed as the bass soloist in Handel's Messiah in Tokyo under the baton of Maestro Hiroshi Gungi, and more recently as the baritone soloist in Durufle's Requiem under the baton of Dr. Thomas Davies with world-renowned organist Todd Wilson.  Mr. Frederick holds a Bachelor's degree in Vocal Performance and Theater from Indiana University and a Master's degree in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  While studying at Indiana, he was awarded both the Mary Pickford-Rogers Scholarship for the Performing Arts and the Music Dean's Award. While studying at SFCM, he was awarded Department Honors for Outstanding Achievement in Voice.

Amanda Frederick, a soprano, graduated from The University of Delaware in 2005 with her B.M.  Since then, she has been studying in Philadelphia and singing with companies such as The Atlantic Coast Opera and Sarasota Opera.  She has performed such roles as Gilda in Rigoletto,  The Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflote and La Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro.  Amanda enjoys working in the church and has been seen in Philadelphia performing works such as Faure's Requiem and Handel's Messiah.  Recently, Amanda was awarded  The Kauffman Scholarship of Excellence and is currently pursuing her M.M. at The University of Missouri in Kansas City studying with Tenor, Vinson Cole.

To enroll in music lessons

at the Carnegie Arts Center,

please call 913.651.0765.

The Carnegie Arts Center recently added three new piano instructors to their faculty.  Daniel Bruggeman, Sunny Son, and Marsha Stevens joined the Carnegie’s faculty after the original piano teachers’ schedules were filled.  The Carnegie Arts Center’s music program is growing rapidly, and the three new piano teachers already have several students each.

Daniel Bruggeman teaches on Monday and Wednesday evenings.  He is currently working on his Doctorate of Musical Arts in piano performance and pedagogy at the University of Kansas.  He received his Master of Music degree in piano performance and pedagogy from the University of Kansas, and he received his Bachelor of Music from Concordia College in Moorehead, Minnesota.  Before joining the Carnegie Arts Center’s faculty in early August, Bruggeman was studying at the Adam Gyorgy Castle Academy in Pomaz, Hungary.

Sunny Son teaches on Tuesday evenings.  She received both her Doctorate of Musical Arts and her Master of Music degrees from the University of Kansas, and she received her Bachelor of Music from the University of North Texas.  Prior to earning her Doctorate, Son received a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London.  Earlier in 2010, Son performed at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, and in 2011 she will perform in Norway and Portugal.

Marsha Stevens will be teaching on Thursday afternoons and evenings beginning in September.  Stevens taught at the Carnegie Arts Center from 1997 to 2001, and the Carnegie is happy to see her return.  Stevens received her Master’s degree from the University of Missouri, and she received her Bachelor’s degree in Music Ministry and Piano Performance from Ozark Christian College.

The Carnegie Arts Center is excited to see its music program growing!  We can’t wait to see what the next semester has in store!