Biography
Cellist Joyce Geeting has performed many concerts throughout the United States and Europe as soloist and chamber musician, often featured on radio or television. Most recently she performed in Salzburg, Austria in the new concert hall of the Mozarteum, which overlooks the Mirabel Gardens. The work performed, "Body Notes", is newly composed complete with video by pianist Dr. Hector Rasgado Flores, physiologist and professor at the Rosalind Franklin University in Chicago. The work is a fascinating visual and aural description of human physiology and the life experience. This cello-piano duo looks forward to performances in Japan, Germany, Mexico, Venezuela, in Chicago and Minneapolis and Los Angeles in the United States.
Ms. Geeting has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin, Cornell College and the University of Redlands and currently teaches at California Lutheran University. In addition to her performances, she aids young cellists in their musical development. She has many award-winning students as well as former students who are professionals on three continents.
Although a protégé of the great cellist János Starker, who calls her his colleague, she holds a doctorate degree from the University of Oregon in cello pedagogy and performance. She met him when she was researching for her dissertation. She plays a 220-year-old cello made by John Edward Betts, Royal London Exchange, "with an extraordinarily exquisite tone." (Oregon Statesman) "Exquisite tone also describes Joyce's playing, which is dynamic, sensitive and emotionally powerful." (Carol Worthey)
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The Folk Music for Cello Concert is on Mothers' Day, May 10th at 4:00 p.m. in Overton Hall on the California Lutheran University (CLU) campus. Dr. Geeting will open the concert with the Kodaly Solo Sonata, opus 8. This piece is a 30-minute work based on Hungarian folk music. In 1980 she performed this piece (and others) for European television and has performed it many times in the U.S. This work will be followed by folk music from Hungary and France when she will be joined by her cello students performing works by Bartok, Bazelaire, and Hindemith. This concert is a tribute to János Starker and his great contribution to the world of music in general and cello playing in particular.
János Starker is world renown for his decades of concertizing, recording and teaching. With his brilliant performance of Kodaly's Sonata as a 15-year-old in Budapest, he was immediately famous. Word traveled around the world in 1939 about this "boy in knee pants performing this dazzlingly, excruciating difficult piece." Even Musical America was talking about it, calling this a miracle. A few years later, after the war, which he miraculously survived, he was awarded the Grand Prix dy Disque in Paris for his recording of that piece. In France after the war, Starker and Kodaly appeared together frequently, and, of course, Starker played Kodaly's piece.
Ms. Getting was recently interviewed on the radio by Kelli McKay for "Locals Only". You may use the link below to listen to the full interview.
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Geeting Interview with Kelli McKay, MP3 | Time: 00:00 | Size: 10Mb |
Dr. Joyce Geeting's Students Perform a Mazurka by David Piopper
Dr. Joyce Geeting, author of the just released "János Starker: King of Cellists," teaches for California Lutheran University Conservatory in Thousand Oaks, California. Below is a video of her students performing a Mazurka by David Popper.
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Ms. Geeting accepts concert and speaking engagements as schedule permits. If you have a project in which you believe Joyce would be interested, don't hesitate to communicate with us regarding same.
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