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Virtuoso Hector Olivera will be playing at the Mason County Concert
Association's 2011-20 12 Concert Series on Monday, Jan. 30.
Virtuoso to be featured
at Shelton concert series
Pipe organ expert
performing at
concert series
Virtuoso Hector Olivera
rings in the second half
of Mason County Concert
Association's 2011-2012
Concert Series at 7 p.m.
on Monday, Jan. 30, at the
Shelton Performing Arts
Center (formerly the high
school auditorium).
Tickets are $30 for adults
and $5 for students and are
available at the door or at
Lynch Creek Floral.
Non-members can take
advantage of a mid-season
speciat rate for the remain-
der of the series.
There are two more con-
certs after the Jan. 30 con-
cert.
Membership brochures
are available at the library
and the Shelton Mason
Chamber of Commerce.
See www.mCCCa.com
for more information or call
Becky Schuyten at 426-1842
or Larry Swift at 426-81519.
The Jan. 30 show fea-
tures sober, classical pipe
organ music. Touring with
two organs of his own de-
sign, Maestro Olivera's
personal interpretations of
both classical and popular
music have amazed and de-
lighted audiences around
the world.
After years of perform-
ing in the United States, in
1988, Olivera played once
again in Argentina, the
land of his birth. Welcomed
as a national hero, he per-
formed in standing room
only concerts attended by
celebrities and heads of
state. He was also featured
on national radio and tele-
vision shows.
Notable U.S. perfor-
mances include Garrison
Keillor's "A Prairie Home
Companion," a celebratory
concert at Spivey Hall in
honor of the 1996 Olympic
Games in Atlanta and the
Newport Classical Music
Festival. In Newport he is
regularly the featured open-
ing and closing artist for the
gala concerts.
Born in Buenos Aires,
Olivera's first teacher -- his
father -- encouraged him
to play pipe organ at age
3. Two years later, he was
appointed organist of the
Church of the Immaculate
Conception. At 6, he entered
the Buenos Aires Conserva-
tory and by 9 had composed
a suite for oboe and string
orchestra, performed by the
Buenos Aires Symphony
Orchestra.
At 12, Mr. Olivera en-
tered the University of Bue-
nos Aires where he studied
with Hector Zeoli and Juan
Francisco Giacobbe. By 18,
he had performed more than
300 concerts throughout
Latin America, appearing
frequently on Argentinean
radio and television. Dur-
ing this time, he also served
for three years as the senior
improvisational accompa-
nist for the Collegium Musi-
cum in Buenos Aires, vastly
increasing his prodigious
and improvisational talent.
Offered a scholarship to
the Juilliard School in New
York in 1965, he moved to
the United States to study
with Vernon de Tar and
Bronson Reagan.
Three years later, Olive-
ra won the National Impro-
visation Contest sponsored
by the American Guild of
Organists, thereby launch-
ing his professional concert
career.
In addition to performing
at concert halls through-
out the world and present-
ing dedication recitals in
churches and symphony
halls, Olivera consults on
the design of Rodgers and
Roland organs worldwide.
Inspired by his love for the
French pipe organ Hector
Olivera recently designed
an organ, the Rodgers Tril-
lium Masterpiece, for the
purpose of touring.
Although most famous
for his prodigious techni-
cal proficiency, Olivera's ef-
fect on audiences has made
many of the most sophisti-
cated and demanding or-
gan aficionados claim that
Olivera is one of the great-
est organists in the world
today.
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