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MIEJSCA KONCERTOWE
PRESSPACK
The box office is open Thu-Sat 13: 00-19: 00 and one hour before each concert. We encourage you to buy tickets online.
THREE TENORS EVENING – 28.06. (Sunday), 8pm – Old Square
Tomasz Kuk – tenor
Tadeusz Szlenker – tenor
Adam Zdunikowski – tenor
Sławomir Chrzanowski – conductor
Toruń Symphony Orchestra
Program includes: G. Bizet, G. Verdi, J. Strauss, L. Bernstein
FRENCH EVENING – 04.07. (Saturday), 8pm – Great Hall of the Artus Court
DUO BENZAKOUN
Laurence BENZAKOUN – piano
Daniel BENZAKOUN – piano
Program includes: M. Ravel, C.Saint-Saëns, C. Debussy, F. Poulenc
Film projection – "Les Choristes" (The Choir) – dir. C. Barratier – 6 pm, Alliance Française coffee shop – ul. Kopernika 20
+ lavender cookies and a glass of French wine
EXHIBITION EVENING – "ARCHITECTURE OF MUSIC IN THE WORLD" – Opening: 11.07., 5 pm – Galeria TUMULT, Rynek Nowomiejski 28
The exhibition will last until 17.07. and will be available from 12:00 till 18:00.
It was presented during the International Triennale of Architecture in Cracow.
The event is coorganized with The Association of Polish Architects in Toruń.
MOVIE EVENING – 17.07. (Friday), 7 pm, Hanza Cafe – ul. Piekary 28
"Rhythm is it!" -dir.T. Grube, E. S. Lansch
TEMPUS FANTASY EVENING – 18.07. (Saturday), 8 pm – Great Hall of the Artus Court
PROJECT TEMPUS FANTASY
Katarzyna BOREK – piano
Vojto MONTEUR – electronics
Tomek SPERA – VJ
Program includes: pieces from the Tempus Fantasy project, such as.: C. Debussy, S. Prokofiew, F. Liszt, H.M. Górecki, M. Ravel arranged by Artists.
ALPHORN EVENING – 25.07. (Saturday), 6 pm – Centre of the Contemporary Art
CARLO TORLONTANO – alphorn
TOS STRING QUARTET:
Izabela Bogusz – violin
Grzegorz Bogusz – violin
Marta Wroniszewska – viola
Karol Wroniszewski – cello
Our guests are invited to visit the exhibition organized during the festival TORMIAR by the Centre of the Contemporary Art. The exhibition is free of charge.
FINNISH EVENING – 1.08. (Saturday), 8 pm – Church of St. James
PETRI TAPIO MATTSON – Baroque violin
LOUNA HOSIA – viola da gamba
ILPO LASPAS – harpsichord
Program includes: lesser known works by J.S.Bach, D. Scarlatti, D. Castello and Ch. Graupner, Nordic folk melodies, anonymous pieces from Finnish manuscripts from the Baroque period.
Concert under the Patronage of the Finnish Honorary Consul in Toruń – Tadeusz Pająk
MOVIE EVENING – 07.08. (Friday), 7pm – Hanza Cafe
"Copying Beethoven" – dir. A. Holland
SLOVAK EVENING – 08.08. (Saturday), 8 pm – Collegium Maximum UMK
Miriam Rodriguez BRÜLLOVÁ – guitar
Pavol REMENÁR – baritone
Program includes: J. K. Mertz, A. Jiránek, S. Bodorová, G. Rossini, F.Moreno, W.A. Mozart, F. Schubert
Concert will be held under the Honorary Patronage of the Slovak Institute in Warsaw.
EVENING IN THE PLANETARIUM – 15.08. (Saturday), 7 pm – Planetarium in Toruń
"Chopin the Space Concert" – dir. Adam Ustynowicz
film projection + meeting with the director
GOSPEL CONCERT – 16.08. (Sunday), 1 pm – Saint Spirit Church, Rynek Staromiejski
Peter Mante's Gospel Project
MOVIE EVENING – 21.08. (Friday), 7 pm – Artus Court
"Immortal Beloved" – dir. B. Rose
YOUNG TALENTS EVENING – 22.08. (Saturday), 8pm – Great Hall of the Artus Court
soloists -Paderewski Piano Academy's participants
Przemysław FIUGAJSKI – conductor
ORATORIO EVENING – 29.08. (Saturday), 8 pm – Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, ul. Panny Marii 2
Aleksandra KUBAS – KRUK – soprano
Nicholas MULROY – tenor
Bogdan MAKAL – bass
Jerzy BUTRYN – bass
NFM CHOIRAgnieszka Franków-Żelazny – choir preparation
Andrzej KOSENDIAK – conductor
Program: J. Haydn – "Die Schöpfung"
The concert is co-organized by the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw.
The concert is co-organized by the Marshal Office of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Artists in the alphabetical order
BOREK KATARZYNA /PL/ – piano
Katarzyna Borek is an outstanding pianist of the Polish young generation. She studied at the F. Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz/Poland, Hochschule fur Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover and Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. She proved her artistry by receiving awards in many prestigious international piano competitions among others: International Ignacy Jan Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz, the International Chopin Competition in Moscow, Gottingen and Szafarnia and a finalist of The International Busoni Competition in Bolzano. She participated in numerous festivals, most notably the International Paderewski in Memoriam Festival in Warsaw, The Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk, The Europhony Festival in Bucharest, The Busoni Festival in Bolzano, The Polish Culture Festival in Luxembourg, The Chopin Opera Omnia Festival in the Baltic Philharmonic in Gdańsk and The Chopin Open Festival in the National Opera in Warsaw.
Katarzyna Borek has represented Poland on many prestigious occasions – during the International Summit of European Union and Latin America in Lima 2008, in the European Parliament in Brussels and during the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
In 2010 she received the Prize of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage "Young Poland".
BRÜLLOVÁ MIRIAM RODRIGUEZ /SK/ – guitar
Miriam studied at the State Conservatory in Bratislava. After obtaining a bachelor degree in interpretation and pedagogy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava she studied with outstanding guitarist and pedagogue Alvaro Pierri at Université du Québec á Montréal and Université Laval in Quebec City where she obtained a master degree in interpretation (2001). In 2003 she completed her studies at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna as a postgraduate student with the same teacher.
As an active participant of international master classes she cooperated with such artists as Abel Carlevaro, Alvaro Pierri, Luise Walker, Oscar Ghiglia, Pavel Steidl, John Duarte, Hubert Käppel, Costas Cotsiolis, Zoran Dukić, Aniello Desiderio and Laura Young.
Miriam participated in several guitar competitions in Slovakia as well as in Vienna (Austria), Kutná Hora (Czech Republic) and Weikersheim (Germany) where she won major prizes. Two times (1999, 2000) she was the winner of a scholarship as the best participant of the master class at the international music festival Joventuts Musicals de Torroella de Montgrí in Spain permitting her to perform recitals in Spain and France.
Miriam performed at such famous concert halls as Prague Rudolfinum, Berlin Konzerthaus, Seoul Art Center, Auditorium Conciliazione Rome, Teatro Filarmonico Verona and others. In addition to Slovakia she has played in almost whole Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa.
For several years she was engaged by the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Now she teaches at the Conservatory in Bratislava. Miriam is playing the guitar by world-known luthier Gernot Wagner.
BUTRYN JERZY /PL/ – bass
Absolwent wydziału wokalnego PSM II st. we Wrocławiu, obecnie student Akademii Muzycznej im. K. Linpińskiego we Wrocławiu na wydziale wokalnym w klasie śpiewu prof. Bogdana Makala. Laureat I nagrody na Ogólnopolskim Konkursie Wokalnym im. Franciszki Platówny we Wrocławiu II nagrody na Międzynarodowym Konkursie w Kijowie (Ukraina) oraz III nagrody i nagrody specjalnej na Międzynarodowym Konkursie Wokalnym w Kownie (Litwa). Uczestniczył w kursach wokalnych w Dusznikach Zdrój, Kursie Intrepretacji Muzyki Kantatowej i Oratoryjnej w ramach Miedzynarodowego Festiwalu "Wratislavia Cantans", w Kursie Mistrzowskim u prof.Teresy Żylis-Gara, prof. Valeryego Buymistra, prof. Sabiny Martinaityte i prof. Zdzisława Krzywickiego. Koncertował jako solistach w wielu filharmoniach w Polsce.
Ma na swoim koncie wiele koncertów w kraju i zagranicą zarówno z repertuarem oratoryjnym, operowym jak i również muzyki cerkiewnej. Dokonał nagrania partii basowej "Stabat Mater" – Józefa Haydna, "Requiem"- Gabriela Faure oraz utworów Mikołaja Zieleńskiego. Stypendysta Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego.
CHRZANOWSKI SŁAWOMIR /PL/ – conductor
In 1990 he became the Managing and Artistic Director of Zabrze Philharmonic, which he conducts and manages today. Together with that Orchestra he gave over 1200 concerts on various stages home and abroad. He conducted at festivals ("Gaude Mater" in Częstochowa, "Viva il canto" in Cieszyn, Zabrze Music Festiwal, Krystyna Jamroz Festiwal in Busko-Zdrój, Music Spring in Trnava, etc.), many times partook in periodical projects like "Nieszpory LudŸmierskie" or The Three Polish Tenors Concerts. More than 30 times did he lead concerts, charity events as well, featuring the greatest Polish tenor voice Wiesław Ochman. He recorded CD albums and was filmed for the archival purposes for the Polish Radio and Polish Television. S. Chrzanowski with his Orchestra also performed in Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Japan.
Several times he was invited to America, where he gave concerts and lectured open classes on the Polish music history.
DUO BENZAKOUN /FR/ – piano duo
The Duo Benzakoun based in Orléans, France, is acclaimed for its interpretation of an extensive and diverse musical repertoire. The Duo Benzakoun embodies exceptional talent; performing with great ease, emotion and virtuosity the works of celebrated composers such as Mozart, Ravel, Stravinsky or Rachmaninoff.
The Duo Benzakoun performs extensively in concert halls worldwide (details available under the "concerts" heading). Additionally, they have received numerous awards of excellence in international competitions between 1988 and 1991. Their performances in France include the Salle Cortot, Musique en Sorbonne, la Grange de Nohant, as well as Tours in the Region Centre of the country. The Duo Benzakoun's most recent international tours include appearances in England, Norway, Italy, Austria, Israel, Mexico, Madagascar, Canada, Cyprus. They have also performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and the Chicago Cultural Center. The Duo Benzakoun's performance repertoire includes Poulenc's Concerto for two under the direction of J.-Y. Ossonce. They have also created a piece with singer-soprano Corinne Sertillanges, entitled Evocación . As well, they periodically perform a critically acclaimed theatrical performance entitled "Le Carnaval des Animaux" with the Clin d'oeil company. Whatever the occasion, of the duo's performances onstage are a source of great delight for the audience. Audiences and critics are unanimous: "The two pianists appear as perfect duettists; their main quality lies in the sound balance emanating from the writing, and their capacity to successfully reveal the emotions which transcend the musical work." (Ouest France).
Both pianists hold an Artist Diploma degree from the Jerusalem Rubin Academy where they studied with the Eden-Tamir Duet. After an international career of nearly twenty years, the Duo Benzakoun ranks among the best interpreters of the repertoire for two , piano duet and two with orchestra
HOSIA LOUNA /Finlandia/ – viola da gamba
Louna Hosia studied the Baroque cello and Early music performance at the Sibelius Academy and at the Barcelona Academy of Music. She is a regular performer with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Opus X ensemble, Ensemble Nylandia, New Century Baroque (of which she is a founding member), Concerto Copenhagen, KORE ensemble, ensemble Cornucopia and folk-Baroque ensemble BRÚ, with performances in all parts of Finland and across Europe on the Baroque cello and viola da gamba.
Louna Hosia teaches at the Helsinki Conservatory as well as music insitutes of Kerava, Pakila and Western Helsinki; since 2010 she is a member of the Finnish Baroque Orchestra's education team. With the aforementioned ensembles and orchestras she has made a number of recordings, of which the latest, with music by Christoph Graupner, was awarded Recording of the Year by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE).
KOSENDIAK ANDRZEJ /PL/ – conductor
Director of the National Forum of Music, artist, conductor and pedagogue, Andrzej Kosendiak has earned an enviable reputation as one of the most active and committed musicians and organizers of music life in Poland. He graduated from the Department of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory of Wrocław Music Academy. In 2013 he obtained the academic degree of doctor habilitatus. For many years he taught at his Alma Mater, where in 2001-2009 he was head of the Cross-Department Early Music Studies. Since 2014 he has been Professor at the S. Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. In 2005 he became Director of the Wrocław Philharmonic and the International Festival Wratislavia Cantans.
Early music is of particular interest to Andrzej Kosendiak: in 1985 he founded Collegio di Musica Sacra and has directed the ensemble ever since. They have given concerts in many European countries, as well as the US (including collaboration with Chapel Hill University NC), appearing at the most prestigious festivals and concert venues across Poland. His recording catalogue includes rediscovered music from Wrocław University Library – Musica da chiesa (DUX), and from Strasbourg Library – F. X Richter: 'Missa Pastorale', Dixit, Magnificat (CYPRES) as well as A. M. Bononcini's Stabat Mater (DUX). 2012 and 2014 saw the release of two discs with works by G. G. Gorczycki (CD Accord) directed by Andrej Kosendiak. The first disc was awarded Wrocław Music Prize and nominated for Fryderyk Award. As a conductor he gives regular concerts with the NFM Symphony Orchestra and Choir, as well as Wrocław Baroque Orchestra and philharmonic ensembles across Poland. Over the recent years he has conducted Haydn's The Creation, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Mass in C minor and Requiem, Bach's Mass in B flat minor and both Passions (initiating years ago a tradition of performing these works in Wrocław during the Holy Week), Fauré's Requiem, and Britten's Saint Nicolas.
KUBAS – KRUK ALEKSANDRA /PL/ – soprano
Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk studiowała śpiew na Akademii Muzycznej im. Karola Lipińskiego we Wrocławiu pod kierunkiem prof.Danuty Paziuk-Zipser oraz na Uniwersytecie Muzycznym w Wiedniu. Brała udział w wielu kursach mistrzowskich u tak uznanych profesorów jak: T.Żylis-Gara, C.Richardson, I.Kremling, P.Tschaplik, M.Habela, S.Vittucci, R.Resnik. W 2009 roku została laureatką Teatralnej Nagrody Muzycznej im. Jana Kiepury w kategorii Najlepsza Śpiewaczka oraz Wrocławskiej Nagrody Muzycznej w kategorii Muzyka Poważna. Od 2011r. współpracuje z Teatrem Bolshoi w Moskwie, gdzie wykonuje partie Szemachańskiej Królowej (Złoty kogucik M.Rimski-Korsakow), Królowej nocy (Czarodziejski flet W.A.Mozart), Ognia, Królewny i Słowika (Dziecko i czary M.Ravel). Występowała pod batutą takich dyrygentów, jak: Vassily Sinaisky, Péter Eötvös, Elio Boncompagni, John Axelrod, Stefan Blunier, Christopher Moulds, Jacek Kasprzyk, Andriy Yurkevych, Łukasz Borowicz, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Tadeusz Strugała, Ewa Michnik, Pavel Klinichev, Marek Pijarowski, Michał Klauza, Jan Miłosz Zarzycki, Sławomir Chrzanowski.
KUK TOMASZ /PL/ – tenor
Ukończył z wyróżnieniem Wydział Wokalno-Aktorski Akademii Muzycznej w Krakowie, w klasie prof. W.J. Śmietany. Laureat licznych krajowych i zagranicznych konkursów wokalnych – zdobył m.in.: I nagrodę na Konkursie Wokalnym we Wrocławiu (1994), II nagrodę oraz nagrodę specjalną na Konkursie Wokalnym im. H. Słoniowskiej w Dusznikach Zdroju (1996); III nagrodę regulaminową oraz nagrodę specjalną na VII Międzynarodowym Konkursie Sztuki Wokalnej im. A. Sari w Nowym Sączu (1997). W 1999 roku został laureatem Międzynarodowego Konkursu Wokalnego im. V. Belliniego (Caltanissetta, Włochy), I nagrodę zdobył też podczas IV Międzynarodowego Konkursu Wokalnego im. S. Moniuszki w Warszawie. Artysta ma w swoim dorobku wiele prestiżowych koncertów oratoryjnych i estradowych (wśród nich m.in. wykonania "Stabat Mater" A. Dvořaka pod dyrekcją H. Rillinga, "Mszy Es-dur" F. Schuberta pod dyrekcją W. Michniewskiego, "Requiem"W.A. Mozarta, "Requiem"G. Verdiego pod dyrekcją T. Wojciechowskiego). Współpracuje z Operą Krakowską, Teatrem Wielkim w Łodzi, Teatrem Wielkim im. S. Moniuszki w Poznaniu, Operą Nova w Bydgoszczy, a także Teatrem Wielkim – Operą Narodową w Warszawie. Bierze udział w przedstawieniach zagranicznych scen operowych, m.in. w Japonii, Anglii, Niemczech, Szwajcarii, Austrii i Czechach. Dotychczas występował wielokrotnie jako Ismael w "Nabucco", Alfred w "Traviacie", Macduff w operze "Macbeth", Carlo w "Joannie d'Arc", Duca w "Rigoletto", Radames w "Aidzie", Manrico w "Trubadurze" G. Verdiego, Don Jose w "Carmen" G. Bizeta, Artur w "Łucji z Lammermooru" G. Donizettiego, Tebaldo w "Capuleti i Montecchi" V. Belliniego, Turiddu w "Rycerskości wieśniaczej" P. Mascaniego, Jontek w "Halce", Stefan w "Strasznym dworze" i Idamor w "Parii" S. Moniuszki, Princ w "Rusałce" A. Dvořáka, Leński w "Eugeniuszu Onieginie" P. Czajkowskiego, Cavaradossi w "Tosce" G. Pucciniego, Pincerton w "Madame Butterfly", Rudolf w "Cyganerii", Kalaf w "Turandot" G. Pucciniego, Bacchus w "Ariadnie na Naxos" R. Straussa.
LASPAS ILPO /Finlandia/ – klawesyn
Ilpo Laspas graduated from the Sibelius Academy in 2010. He was awarded diplomas on the harpsichord, the organ and continuo playing and an intermediate degree on the piano, all with distinction. Since 2010 he is a doctoral student at the Academy on the organ and the haprsichord.
Laspas has been successful in several competitions on all of his three instruments. He was awarded the 2nd prize and the audience's prize at the international Johann Sebastian Bach harpsichord competion in Leipzig in 2006 and the 2nd prize in the organ category of the said competition in 2008.
Ilpo Laspas was elected the Young Artist of the Year of the Vantaa Baroque festival in 2006, the Pori Organ festival in 2009, the Young Organist of the Year of the Turku cathedral in 2009 and the Lahti International Organ Festival in 2010. He has received grants from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for his work and doctoral studies since 2010
MAKAL BOGDAN /PL/ – bass
Jest laureatem wielu nagród w konkursach ogólnopolskich i międzynarodowym: Warszawa 1989 – II nagroda, Warszawa 1991 – III nagroda, Duszniki Zdrój 1992 – II nagroda i nagroda specjalna, Gdańsk 1993 – II nagroda i nagroda specjalna i inne. Wykonywał partie barytonowe i basowe w ponad 100 dziełach oratoryjnych. Uczestniczył w wielu festiwalach w kraju i za granicą. Współpracował z teatrem operowym oraz dramatycznym. Dokonał wielu nagrań dla radia i telewizji w kraju, Czechach, Francji i USA. Wśród tych nagrań są płyty nagrodzone Grand Prix du Disque oraz Diapason d'Or. Jest profesorem w Akademii Muzycznej we Wrocławiu i dziekanem Wydziału Wokalnego tejże uczelni, a także kierownikiem Wydziału Wokalnego w PSM II st. we Wrocławiu. Wśród wokalistów z jego klasy śpiewu jest wielu laureatów krajowych i międzynarodowych konkursów wokalnych. Wykładowca i kierownik Zimowego Kursu Wokalnego w Dusznikach Zdroju, juror krajowych i międzynarodowych konkursów wokalnych.
MATTSON PETRI TAPIO /Finland/ – Baroque violin
Petri Tapio Mattson is one of the most influential Finnish Baroque string players. He studied the violin and interpretation of Early music at the Sibelius Academy and on numerous master classes. He was awarded his diploma on the Baroque violin – the first of its kind at the Academy – under the guidance of legendary professor Jaap Schröder in Spring 1999.
Petri Tapio Mattson has performed as orchestral and chamber musicians, ensemble director, conductor and solo artist in all of Finland as well as most countries of Western and Central Europe. He is the artistic director of Early music ensemble 'Opus X'. He has made nearly twenty recordings for various labels (including Ondine, BIS and Alba), many of which have been received with enthusiasm internationally.
In addition to the violin Petri Tapio Mattson has performed on the Baroque viola and the viola da gambas. He has also studied violin making and writes music in various genres.
In addition to the violin and the viol, Petri Tapio Mattson has also performed on the viola. He has recorded for the labels Alba, BIS, Ondine, Fuga, Naxos, Aeolus and La Bottega Discantica. He has studied violin making under the guidance of luthier Pekka Suihkonen from Haapavesi
MONTEUR VOJTO /PL/ – electronics
Wojciech Orszewski has had an interest in music since his childhood. Already at the school age, he co-founded music bands who participated in numerous popular music contests and festivals. He has graduated from the Wrocław School of Jazz and Popular Music. He has participated in many music workshops, where he was learning to play the guitar under the supervision of outstanding guitarists (Artur Lesicki, Martin Schaberl).
For eight years, he was a founding member of Miloopa band, with whom he performed on numerous stages both in Poland and in Europe. This band greatly contributed to the development of a new wave of club and electronic music and promoted the Polish scene of electronic music abroad, for example, in France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Hungary as well as during the greatest festivals: Sziget Festival, United Islands, Be2gether Festival, Fete De La Musique Luxembourg, United Islands of Prague, Creambields, JDM Festival, Open'er, Summer of Music, Szene Festival, Green Valley, Jazz Festival Stockholm.
The band cooperated with the leading electronic music artists from other countries such as Mc Blu Rum13 (oneself, dj vadim). They went on tour together with Jojo Mayer's Nerve (USA), Beanbield (Germany), Micatone (Germany), Dj First Rate (UK), Forss vs Borg (Sonar Kollektiv).
At present, he permanently cooperates with the following groups: Natalia Lubrano, Joao, Lov Digit All Love. He is also the composer of film and theatre music for the following productions: "Śpij Dobrze" (2004), "Rybcia", "Fałszywy Świt" (2006), "Szepty" performance (2008), MIKI MISTER DJ, (Gdynia City Theatre, 2012).
As a producer, he has been the artistic supervisor of three albums: "Sprawca" by Bartosz Porczyk (2010), "Rocks" by Joao (2011) and "Respect" by Natalia Lubrano (2012). Selected discography: "Nutrition facts" by Miloopa (2005), "Night Moves" by LU (2006 – guest performance), "Digit All Love" by Digit All Love (2007), "Unicode" by Miloopa (2008), "V" by Digit All Love (2010), "Sprawca" by Bartosz Porczyk (2010), "Rocks" by Joao (2011), "Respect" by Natalia Lubrano (2012).
MULROY NICHOLAS /UK/ – tenor
Born in Liverpool, Nicholas was a chorister at the city's Metropolitan Cathedral before studying Modern Languages at Cambridge and voice at the RAM. He has since been in constant demand both in the UK and further afield in a wide range of concert, recital and opera engagements.
Widely known for his performances of Baroque repertoire, he has sung with some of its most noted exponents: Bach's Evangelist with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and EBS, Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort, Laurence Cummings, Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic, John Butt and the Dunedin Consort, and further afield with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Layton and the Auckland Philharmonia. He has also sung to great acclaim with groups such as the OAE, the Choir of New College, Oxford, I Fagiolini, the King's Consort, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Brussels Philharmonic, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, le Concert d'Astrée, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jordi Savall and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, the Britten Sinfonia, and at opera houses including Paris (Palais Garnier and Opéra Comique), Glyndebourne, Lille, and the Grand Capitole in Toulouse.
Away from the Baroque, he has sung Tavener's Requiem with BBCNOW, Piazzolla's María de Buenos Aires with Mr McFall's Chamber, Berio Sinfonia and the world premiere of Stephen Pratt's Uneasy Vespers with RLPO, Haydn Creation with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Britten's Serenade with Orquesta del Principado de Asturias, Britten Nocturne and Mozart Requiem with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
He has recorded extensively, with credits including a Gramophone Award-winning Messiah and critical acclaim has followed for recordings of Acis and Galatea, Matthäus-Passion, Handel's Esther and a recent Johannes-Passion where he sings both Evangelist and arias. Engagements for this season and beyond include further recitals for the Oxford Lieder Festival, a tour of the Christmas Oratorio with the Nederlandse Bach Vereniging, Evangelist in Johannes-Passion with the OAE, Matthäus-Passion with the Gabrieli Consort for the Aix Easter Festival, and a programme of Purcell Odes at the Wigmore Hall as part of their Purcell Retrospective.
NFM CHOIR /PL/
The National Forum of Music Choir was founded in 2006 by Andrzej Kosendiak as one of the ensembles of the Wrocław Philharmonic to be transformed into the National Forum of Music in May 2014. Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny has been the Choir's artistic director ever since its inception. In a short space of time it has established itself as one of Poland's leading choral ensembles, thanks to its rich and varied repertoire, which includes a cappella, vocal-instrumental, oratorio, operatic, and symphonic works. It has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Paul McCreesh, Giovanni Antonini, Jacek Kaspszyk, Krzysztof Penderecki, James MacMillan, Bob Chilcott and Jan Łukaszewski.
In a few years the Choir has performed over 200 times, collaborating among others with the Gabrieli Consort, Il Giardino Armonico and NDR Orchestra, giving concerts at the Salle Pleyel (Paris), the Barbican Centre (London), the Royal Albert Hall (London), Gewandhaus (Leipzig). It was a guest of the music festivals: Schleswig-Holstein, Gent van Vlaanderen, Wratislavia Cantans, Warsaw Autumn, Ankara Music Festival. In addition to regular performances with the other NFM ensembles, the group is touring Poland performing with leading polish
philharmonic orchestras, including Polish Radio Orchestras in Katowice and Warsaw. It is often being broadcasted on the Polish Radio and abroad. In 2009 and 2011 it was the first Polish choir to be invited to the legendary BBC Proms. In 2011 at the Varaždin Baroque Evenings festival in Croatia it received one of the three main awards – the Kantor Award for exceptional performance of works by J.S. Bach. The Choir made its first tour of the United States of America in June 2013 and in October it performed with the world-wide known group The Swingle Singers.
An important part of the NFM Choir's discography is a series of recordings under the direction of Paul McCreesh: Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts (2011, BBC Music Magazine Technical Excellence Award 2012), Mendelssohn's Elijah (2012, Diapason d'Or de l'Année 2013) and Britten's War Requiem (2013, BBC Music Magazine Choral Award 2014). The Choir's a cappella albums are: Words Painted with Sounds (2012), a CD with Bob Chilcott's music The Seeds of Stars (2012) and Folk Love released in 2014
PETER MANTE'S GOSPEL PROJECT /DE/
"Peter Mante's Gospel Project" jest afro-amerykańska formacja wokalna. Grupa ta powstała w roku 2002 w Nadrenii w okolicach Düsseldorfu. Szefem tej formacji jest pianista, dyrygent i aranżer PETER MANTE. Peter jest absolwentem Rhema Bibel Training Zentrum w Bonn. Ma on ogromne zdolności w jednoczeniu ludzi poprzez śpiew na chwale Boga. W dotychczasowej działalności artystycznej wykorzystuje swoje doświadczenie muzyczne także w pracy edukacyjnej. Polega ona na głoszeniu wiary i religii śpiewem. Początkowo zespół Petera Mante śpiewał podczas nabożeństw kościelnych, na różnych uroczystościach świeckich, akademiach i bardzo często na ślubach.
PADEREWSKI PIANO ACADEMY
Mistrzowska Szkoła Letnia dla pianistów z orkiestrą symfoniczną, odbywająca się pod Honorowym Patronatem Marszałka Województwa Kujawsko – Pomorskiego – Piotra Całbeckiego. Dyrektorem Artystycznym Kursu jest prof. Ilja Scheps. Koncert w Sali Wielkiej Dworu Artusa odbywać się będzie pod batutą Przemysława Fiugajskiego. W Kursie uczestniczą młodzi pianiści z całego świata. Organizatorem jest Towarzystwo Muzyczne im. I. J. Paderewskiego.
REMENÁR PAVOL /SK/ – baritone
Slovak baritone Pavol Remenár joined the company of Slovak National Theatre Opera as a soloist in September of 2000, when he debuted in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Since then he has sung number of roles on this stage: Belcore (Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore), Rossini's Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Dandini (La Cenerentola), Mozart's The Count (Le nozze di Figaro) and Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Orfeus (Gluck: Orpheus and Eurydice), Silvio (Leoncavallo: I pagliacci), Puccini's Marcello and Schaunard (La bohème) and Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Valentin (Gounod: Faust), Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Jelecky (The Queen of Spades), R. Strauss' Harlequin (Ariadna auf Naxos) and Jochanaan (Salome), Goryantchikov and (in Prague) Shishkov (Janáček: From the House of Dead) etc. He is also a regular concert artist, his repertoire includes Fauré's Requiem, Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ, Saint-Saëns' Oratorio de Noël, Handel's Te Deum laudamus, Janáček's Amarus, Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen as well as many songs. At the Prague opera stage, he debuted as Puccini's Sharpless at the State Opera (autumn 2014).
SZLENKIER TADEUSZ /PL/ – tenor
Tadeusz Szlenkier was born in Warsaw, Poland. He finished philosophy at the University of Warsaw, and vocal studies at Yale University in the United States. In May 2005 Tadeusz Szlenkier won the first prize on International Vocal Competition Klassik-Mania in Vienna. Since that time he has performed in many important theaters across Poland, and abroad.
Since 2010 Tadeusz Szlenkier collaborates with Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, Poland singing many roles of a lyric tenor such as Alfredo in La Traviata, Rodolfo in La Bohéme, Princ in Rusalka, Enzo in La Gioconda, Tamino in the Magic Flute, Barinkay in the Gipsy Baron, and Alfred in the Bat. Tadeusz Szlenkier has performed also as Gustavo in Ballo in Maschera, Leicester in Maria Stuarda by Donizetti, Jontek in Halka by Moniuszko, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly many others.
In March 2008, Tadeusz Szlenkier was invited by Mrs. Elżbieta Penderecka to take part in a concert performance of an opera "Lodoïska" by Cherubini during 12th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw. The recording of this concert was later nominated to the prestigious "Fryderyk" award. In 2010, Tadeusz Szlenkier represented his country by taking part in the concerts organized during EXPO World Exhibition in Shanghai. In May 2012 the Tenor performed as Idomeneo in the opera by W.A. Mozart at the Teatro Municipal in Lima, Peru.
TORLONTANO CARLO /IT/ – alphorn
Guest soloist worldwide on the Alphorn, the Italian musician Carlo Torlontano dedicated most of his time promoting the Alphorn and its traditions as well as repertoire, introducing in the Concert-Hall this instrument mainly known for its use in sending signals throughout the Alpine valley.
Carlo Torlontano had been invitated to play in some of the world most prestigious Concert-Hall and International Festival, like Mozartuem Salzburg, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Philharmonie Berlin, Mainly Mozart Festival (USA), Brisbane Music Festival, Salle de Concert Pollak de Montréal, Proms Prague Festival, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Warsaw Philharmonic, Tokyo Muza Symphony Hall, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Auditorium Lisinski Zagreb, Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana, Gran Teatro de Cordoba, Belgrade Philharmonic, Praha Smetana Hall, Internationaal Kamermuziekfestival Den Haag, Festival Internacional de Santander, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, California Center for the Arts, Casa da Música do Porto, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Newport Music Festival (USA), etc.
Carlo Torlontano has been also for many years the Principal and Solo Horn player with RAI-Italian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra and Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli. He also has collaborated with many of the most prestigious conductors among them: Abbado, Accardo, Ahronovitch, Berio, Bonynge, Gatti, Gavazzeni, Harding, Koopman, Kuhn, Maag, Maazel, Oren and Semkow.
Carlo Torlontano is currently Horn Professor at the Conservatory of Music "A. Casella" in L'Aquila, Italy.
TORUN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA /PL/
It was founded as the Toruń Chamber Music Orchestra in the artistic season of 1978/79 and performed under the auspices of the City of Toruń since 1990. The orchestra receives the funding for its activities from the City of Toruń, to which it owes its dynamic development. Since February 2006 it is officially named as the Toruń Symphony Orchestra.
The orchestra has gained a firm standing among many other cultural institutions in our town. This is due to the concerts performed in Toruń as well as at numerous tourneés, both in Poland and abroad. In the course of thirty-five years of their artistic activity, the orchestra played in most of Polish cities, in many European countries (e.g. Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, France, Belarus, Lithuania), at many prestigious festivals. The orchestra is especially proud of a one-month tourneé in China, two concerts at the Opera Gala in Pamplona, as well as the concert at the Cirque Royal in Brussels (in October 2010). In July 2010, the Toruń Symphony Orchestra accompanied José Carreras at his performance in the Toruń Motoarena.
The director of the Toruń Symphonic Orchestra (currently gathering 56 musicians) is Paweł Dudzik.
TOS STRING QUARTET /PL
The String Quartet was formed at the initiative of the leading musicians of Toruń Symphony Orchestra in 2004 and it is composed of :
Izabela Bogusz – I violin (concertmaster TOS)
Grzegorz Bogusz – II violin
Karol Wroniszewski – cello (concertmaster TOS)
The first official concert was held in 2005 in the Artus Court and it was enthusiastically received by the audience and critics. The cooperation between the musicians resulted in successive performances and recording of the album "Romantically", which was a collection of the most famous and popular miniatures. Quartet's repertoire is very rich and constantly expanded. It includes works by composers of different eras from Baroque to contemporary times.
USTYNOWICZ ADAM /PL/ – director
Born in 1953 in Warsaw.
MSc. of Aviation Faculty of Warsaw Institute of Technology and PhD candidate in Thermodynamics. Graduated as film director form Lodz Film School in 1986, traveled to China to become assistant of Bernardo Bertolucci during production of THE LAST EMPEROR on location in The Forbidden City in Beijing. In 1989 set up one of the first independent film production companies in Poland. In 1990/91 produced and directed a 50 min. documentary for popular BBC2 series Bookmark about Polish Science Fiction writer Stanislaw Lem. The film was awarded the first prize on the International Festival of the Films on Art, Montreal 1994.
Series of educational programs about Space "Ad Astra" was presented to the POPE JOHN PAUL II during the seminar on philosophical and religious aspects of contemporary science in Castel Gandolfo, August 97.
From 1994 to date a film director and independent producer, author of more than 200 films and programs, mostly about exploration of Space, history of aviation and philosophical and ethical aspects of modern science. Author of the pioneer in the World Series of programs converting Internet and television broadcasted by Polish Television in 1995. Producer of live coverage of landing of space robots on Mars and Titan.
In February 2010 produced a Chopin concert in Space on board of STS-130 Endeavour during the mission to the International Space Station. Producer and director of documentary film CHOPIN 2010 – THE SPACE CONCERT on the occasion of 200th. anniversary of Chopin birth.
Passionate about aviation and Space exploration. In the years 2003-2005 vice president of CASI – International Air Sport Commission of FAI, member of Polish Aviation Council.
ZDUNIKOWSKI ADAM /PL/ – tenor
The tenor Adam Zdunikowski was born in 1966 in Warsaw. His first contact with music came at the age of seven, when he began singing with the Lutnia boys' choir in Warsaw. In 1991, he graduated from the solo singing class of Roman Węgrzyn at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. In 1990, he had already made his debut on the chamber stage of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw as Clem in Benjamin Britten's The Little Sweep.
In 1991, he became a soloist with the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, consistently expanding his repertoire, which now contains thirty-five operatic parts. His roles at the PNO have included Shepherd in Szymanowski's King Roger (2000), Lensky in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (2002), Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni (2002), Prunier in Puccini's La rondine (2003), Narraboth in Strauss's Salome (2004), Madwoman in Britten's Curlew River (2005), Prince Philipp in Zygmunt Krauze's Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy (2007) and Almaviva in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (2007).
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If you're a new home marketer, your schedule is full of managing show home launches, supervising marketing staff, overseeing agency work, calculating marketing budgets, updating the website, and trying to generate more leads.
At times, marketing strategy might be the furthest thing from your mind, but it's an essential part of growing the business and staying ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving digital environment.
Not all marketing strategies are going to work, so it's essential you have the right home builder marketing plan to be successful. That's why our experts have compiled a home builder marketing blueprint for you. Because we know what works.
Without further delay, here are nine home builder marketing strategies to help you build your business.
If you haven't embraced social media, it's high time you did. Facebook offers a wide variety of ways to market your business.
Maybe you have a company Facebook page where you post updates about your company, but there is so much more you can do than simply posting updates to your Facebook page. Facebook advertising is one of the most effective places to spend your ad budget.
When done right, it's a great way to build relationships with prospective homebuyers. What's really awesome about the platform is you can define your target market; your buyer persona, or your ideal buyer.
The options can seem overwhelming at first, but with a little practice, you'll find Facebook advertising is fairly simple to use - and a valuable tool for generating leads for your salespeople.
Once on Facebook, you'll want to navigate to the Ads Manager. Here you can create your ad and choose from a variety of demographics, including location, gender, and other highly-targeted information from a variety of categories.
If you haven't done the research to get to know your buyer personas, it's important you do this first so you can target the right demographic.
Is your buyer persona a first-time buyer or a move-up buyer? Or maybe they're looking to downsize?
These are some of the many questions you'll need to answer before you begin. If you are an experienced home builder, it's likely you have already defined your customer personas.
That's the first step in defining your home builder marketing strategy.
Once you've clarified your target audience, you can link to the desired website page you want to take them to when they click on your ad.
Make sure to provide a link to your email address on that page where customers can reach you, so they don't have to navigate around the site to find your contact information.
On Facebook, you can also create and join groups related to your market. This is a great way to begin engaging with potential customers and learning about their concerns and needs. Groups provide a way to get to know your market naturally and building trust without the use of a hard sell technique.
We all know that photos engage consumers in the housing industry, but did you know that 51.9% of marketers around the globe say that their ROI comes from video content marketing?
Three websites that are stellar for posting photos and videos of your beautifully built and designed homes are YouTube (of course), Instagram, and Pinterest.
These sites are especially effective for businesses like home building, home design, interior design and decor, and real estate - all of which use visual imagery to sell their products and services.
A social media platform popular with the commercial real estate industry is the professional network LinkedIn.
LinkedIn grants members the opportunity to connect with other business professionals, hosts groups and provides opportunities to post articles, blog posts, images, videos and links about your company on your Profile page, or directly from your Company page.
You can also post links to customer reviews and testimonials that help provide that third-party credibility that's important to potential buyers.
Promoting your business on websites that cater to your industry is an effective home builder marketing strategy because this is where you can find your target audience spending their time.
Houzz, as you probably know, is one of the largest marketplaces to connect home builders and other home professionals with customers.
On the site you can post a portfolio of completed projects, your company's specialties, such as sustainability and green home building, so potential customers can find you.
Customers also post reviews on the website about professionals they have worked with which can also help you grow your business.
A name you are most likely familiar with for investigating industry research to learn about economic conditions, housing trends and regulations, NAHB also helps customers find credentialed homebuilders through their directory.
Associating your website with NAHB is also effective SEO strategy because the site is considered a relevant and high authority website by Google and other search engines, so it's a good idea to link your website content to the NAHB website.
We'll discuss search engines in more detail in the next section.
Note: If you're a home builder in Canada, the same can be said for the Canadian Home Builders' Association (CHBA). Use them as a resource whenever possible to help build credibility and learn about the latest news in the world of the residential construction industry.
Search engine optimization, known as SEO, is an excellent lead generating tool. It's also one of the most effective marketing techniques for home builders to bring more visitors to their website.
When optimized properly, SEO can drive traffic to your website that you can capture and nurture into qualified sales leads.
Your web developer can optimize your site for SEO by downloading SEO plug-ins that analyze the effectiveness of your website. There are numerous creative SEO tools that help you drive customers to your home builder website by using and analyzing keyword research.
One of the most common of these SEO tools is called Yoast.
Yoast is a WordPress plugin that helps you optimize your website and ensures you have keywords in photo tags and video tags, titles, headings, meta-descriptions and in the body copy in your website content. They do offer some add-ons that cost money, but their free version is very powerful too.
Keyword research is the first step to ranking well in search engines. There's definitely an art and a science to finding the best keywords for your business.
The best SEO related sites help you find the keywords for your industry based on search volume, competition, and keyword difficulty.
While there are many keyword websites dedicated to finding keywords, there are just a handful that produce excellent results.
We recommend Ahrefs and SEMrush for analytics. Although SEMrush and Ahrefs charge a menial fee, it's worth the small investment to have these tools in your arsenal to assist with your home builder marketing strategies.
To put it simply, these two websites will let you know which keywords drive the most traffic to your competitors' websites and which of your competitors' keywords; articles and content get the most likes, shares, and tweets.
Another great SEO tool to include in your home builder marketing toolbox is Answer the Public.
On the site, you can type in a basic keyword phrase and the system will deliver the exact questions users are asking when searching for terms containing these keywords.
You can view them in two ways: on spreadsheets or on a visual diagram that looks like a wheel which has the questions formed in a circle. Although viewing the spreadsheet is a quicker read, both formats can be downloaded for future use.
Once you find your keywords, it's time to integrate them into your content: in your web pages, blogs, video and photo tags, and social media pages.
Be sure not to stuff your keywords. You want them to sound natural. This is known as organic SEO.
One of the best home builder marketing wins is a happy customer. In fact, 88% of customers say they "trust customer reviews as much as personal recommendations."
Having positive reviews of your company on review sites such as Google Business or Yelp will help build social proof which leads to building a good reputation for your company.
One major review site home builders should consider using is Avid Ratings. They are the only ratings system in the world created to exclusively serve the home building industry. If you want to improve customer experience while promoting your products and services at the same time, this review service is worth checking out.
Your company website is the hub of all your marketing strategies as it allows you to directly influence potential home buyers.
All you have to do is ask a satisfied customer to write a testimonial about working with you and then you can post it on your website. If on the other hand, there are dissatisfied customers that have provided a spotty review, you have a chance to communicate with them about any unresolved issues.
This can often patch up any differences or misunderstandings. When a customer sees you care about their satisfaction, it can often be an opportunity to change that less than positive review into a better one.
There's truth to the old adage, "it's not what you know, but who you know." And there's nothing better than meeting a person face-to-face to tell them about what you and who you serve.
Networking provides an opportunity to introduce yourself to prospects and answer questions your prospect may have. It's also a great way to get referrals.
If you're looking to meet commercial real estate brokers and business owners, join your local Chamber of Commerce. The price of a membership will often pay dividends.
Your Chamber of Commerce will host networking events to help you form business relationships with your local community.
What your local Chamber of Commerce offers will vary from city to city, but most local Chambers offer professional development opportunities and resources for local business owners. Many local Chambers also provide mentoring opportunities at affordable fees and host guest speaker events.
You can find other business networking groups called business referral networks online as well. BNI is a well-known networking group that has a large membership in many cities throughout the world.
Whether a potential customer finds you through your social media advertisement or through a website search, you want to wow them with your home builder website.
First of all, you need great photos and videos representing your finest work on your portfolio page and you should link to that page in your website's header or main navigation.
Make sure you also have a website that loads quickly because people lack patience when it comes to online browsing. How fast your website loads directly impacts how well your website ranks in Google now, too.
Your website should have a clear navigational menu system that makes it simple to navigate to the various pages on your website. The last thing you want is to frustrate and confuse your prospect. That usually means a higher bounce rate.
When choosing a theme for your site, ensure it has a responsive design, which means it will display just as beautifully on a mobile device as it does on a desktop computer. This again is a recommendation that comes straight from Google.
Ensure all your website pages look as good as your portfolio with an attractive design that represents your company in its best light.
You've just learned nine effective home builder marketing strategies you can start to implement right away.
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Sandia National Laboratories used a modern quality technique (Quality Function Deployment) to analyze an important national security issue. The authors warn that they do not provide details, due to the sensitive nature of the project.The first step was forming a System Study Group (SSG) to find out what operational effective was required for the system. QFD provided them with an explicit and measurable definition of customer requirements. In Phase One, the SSG members interviewed the parties involved to determine requirements. During this phase, the SSG also had to modify the traditional QFD slightly to accommodate their needs. Phase Two took the findings from Phase One and incorporated them into a Concept Evaluation Matrix, or House of Quality. This phase also began the design process. In Phase Three, the SSG evaluated the cost and issues impacts on the project.QFD provided a flexible, yet structured method for presenting and evaluating data. It enables the SSG to develop an integrated study plan that organized and prioritized customer needs, using the Performance Analysis matrix and Pugh Analysis technique. The results derived from the QFD process provided solutions to system problems.


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For today's Tech Tip, I'm highlighting the information and resources available at Common Sense Media! This website has provided me with valuable tools throughout my teaching career. I have used lessons from their digital citizenship curriculum with my 9th-12th grade students to discuss online safety, digital footprints, and plagiarism. I have also used the website to check on recommendations for edtech tools. However, until recently, I was unaware that Common Sense Media provides a lot of information for parents as well.
Common Sense Media presents resources for Parents, Educators, and Advocates.
This part of the Common Sense Media website provides parents and educators with ways to get involved and advocate for children. Common Sense Kids Action is passionate about four issues: high-quality early childhood, 21st-century schools, encouraging a positive media and technology world, and providing common sense support for families. Common Sense Kids Action drives public policy at the state and national level in these four areas.
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Hurley steams into Bendigo
9 October 2012 – Victoria's oldest reinsman, 85 year-old Eric Hurley who is best remembered for his partnership with the great Minuteman, a champion that raced more than four and a half decades ago will drive at Bendigo Lord's Raceway on Saturday night.
Hurley and Minuteman outstayed the gallant mare Angelique in the Inter Dominion grand final at the Melbourne showgrounds in 1964 and had dual success in the world's richest standing start event for pacers, Victoria's Hunter Cup, in 1964 and 1966. Born in South Australia in 1927, Hurley won his first race at Kadina, north of Adelaide in 1952 driving Modulation. 60 years on Hurley teams with 5yo gelding Steaming, a son of Artesian which trains and owns with his son Jeffery, in the Alabar Pace. The pacer has drawn barrier one in race one at 6:22pm.
This season Steaming has raced five times placing third twice at Melton and Hurley's wife Jeanette said today that the horse just loves Eric. "He whinny's if Eric leaves him alone for five minutes when they are at the races together," She said. "Horses have been Eric's whole life, he loves them and they love him."
Steaming, which last won for Hurley at Geelong in January this year, is one of two horses currently being trained by Eric at his Parwan stables near Bacchus Marsh. The other is a young horse not yet racing and the Hurley's also have two broodmare's on their lot that are ready to foal this week. "It's been a big week, Eric had his birthday yesterday, we have the mares about to foal and we're racing at Bendigo," Jeanette said. Jeanette said Eric is really looking forward to Bendigo's big race event on Saturday night 3 November. Hurley is one of 11 veteran drivers that have been invited to compete in the Veteran Drivers Challenge at Bendigo's Anniversary Cup night. "Our industry does not acknowledge our veterans enough, we think it is terrific that Bendigo has organised this race on such a big night," Jeanette said. - David Aldred

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HomeGigsDECLAN MCKENNA takes to the seas in surreal video for new single 'My House'
DECLAN MCKENNA takes to the seas in surreal video for new single 'My House'
July 22, 2021 Mark Millar Gigs, New music, News 0
Declan McKenna is pleased to share the video for new single, My House. The video, directed by Jake Passmore of the band Scors, is a curious fever dream state, with Declan taking his ramshackle property to the waves whilst a news channel reports continued peril at the mainland. Declan posits himself on the roof to hang his laundry, fish for sustenance and befriend and dance with a friendly patchwork seahorse creature as the sea takes a tumultuous turn.
My House is the first music shared by Declan since his second album debuted at number 2 in the UK album chart last year.
Speaking of the new track, Declan explained: "I'm used to feeling isolated from people I want to see, it's been a big part of my life since I was a teenager touring and so on. With My House I was diving into this daydream of running away and becoming reconnected. I was just having fun on a sunny spring morning making the best out of what soon wouldn't feel so restful and calm. But it's a light-hearted song and for me it is just that - remembering what it is to be lost in your thoughts in a good way, like being a child again.
"The song feels like it's grown over the past year as I've grown closer with my loved ones for many reasons, and amongst all that I've moved house three or four times and even helped my parents move out of my childhood home. Being wary of keeping a personal life, talking publicly about those close to me is something I'm very careful about, but with this song I found a way to talk about love in a way that is fun but felt kind of real, and thankfully for my girlfriend it's not set in an alternate reality dystopia or some stupid shit like that."
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Declan released his second album Zeros in September 2020, and following a very closely fought battle with the Rolling Stones in the UK album chart, he's yet to play the record out live to his fans. With the tour now moved to August, there should be a real resonance with a record that's connected in such a broad way. The tour will be preceded with a slot at Latitude Festival this weekend, with performances also confirmed at Reading and Leeds Festivals and Glasgow's TRNSMT. Declan's shows in Dublin and Cork have both been moved to May 2022, and will be followed by his rescheduled tour of Europe in the same month.
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Researchers untangle causes of differences in East Coast sea level rise
For years, scientists have been warning of a so-called "hot spot" of accelerated sea-level rise along the northeastern U.S. coast. But accurately modeling this acceleration as well as variations in sea-level rise from one region to another has proven challenging.
Now an upcoming paper in Geophysical Research Letters offers the first comprehensive model for understanding differences in sea level rise along North America's East Coast. That model incorporates data not just from atmospheric pressure and ocean dynamics--changing currents, rising ocean temperatures and salinity all influence sea level--but also, for the first time, ice mass change in Greenland and Antarctica. The researchers say their model supports a growing consensus that sea level rise began accelerating in 1990 and that what they found will improve estimates of future sea level rise at a local level.
"A lot of people have been looking for sea level acceleration and have been having trouble finding it," said James Davis, co-author on the paper and a professor and researcher at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "The fact that we could model this well seems to indicate that what we are measuring is correct."
Davis worked together with oceanographer Nadya Vinogradova, founder of Cambridge Climate Institute in Massachusetts, on the sea level rise modeling project. Their model, which incorporated assumptions that acceleration of sea level rise began in the 1990s and not before that, accurately predicted variations in sea level rise along North America's East Coast that have been observed in tide-gauge data for over a half century.
Recent research indicates that global mean sea level, or the average height of the world's oceans, has been increasing by 3 millimeters (.1 inches) per year on average since 1993, when satellites first started measuring it. But along the U.S. East Coast north of Cape Hatteras, rates of sea level rise were found to be some three to four times higher than the global average over certain periods.
Essential to the model Davis and Vinogradova built was research published in 2014 that for the first time measured acceleration in glacial melt in Greenland and Antarctica using data from NASA satellite GRACE. Another critical element was their addition of ocean dynamic modeling from University of Hamburg's GECCO2 that, although low resolution compared to more current models, allowed them to look at a timeline going back to 1948. Newer, higher resolution models don't reach back any further than 1990.
The researchers combined the GRACE and GECCO2 models with atmospheric pressure data and compared these against East Coast tide-gauge records, which measure actual sea levels at the shoreline and are plentiful and high quality for much of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Davis and Vinogradova found that contributions to the ocean from melting of the Greenland ice sheet actually tend to accelerate sea level rise along the southern part of the U.S. East Coast, south of latitude 35?, in part due to a force called gravitational self-attraction and elastic loading. Though the melted ice adds volume to the oceans, it also causes sea levels closest to a melted glacier to fall due to a decline in gravitational pull from mass loss, called gravitational self-attraction. The loss of ice mass also causes the land that was underneath that ice to rise, and depresses the floor of surrounding ocean basin, which is called elastic loading.
In contrast, changing ocean dynamics are responsible for accelerated sea level rise along the northern part of the coast, north of latitude 40?. For instance, an influx of freshwater from Greenland glacial melt to the nearby northern Atlantic, as well as rising ocean temperatures in the northern Atlantic, are weakening an established current system called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which drives the Gulf Stream. Typically the Gulf Stream depresses sea level right along the coast, so as this current weakens, sea levels bounce back. Meanwhile, higher ocean temperatures kick up sea level by expanding the water column.
Davis and Vinogradova chose to focus on the acceleration of sea level rise specifically to avoid the problem of accurately measuring what is known as post-glacial rebound. Post-glacial rebound is the ongoing shape-shifting of the earth's surface that occurs after it is released from the burden of mountains of glacial ice, a process that began in North America at the end of its last ice age 16,000 years ago. (These changes occur very slowly over long time periods, unlike elastic loading, which is near-instantaneous and "elastic.")
As with elastic loading, post-glacial rebound can causes the land or sea floor to bulge in some places and to sink in others, which can change the relationship between sea level and the land. Post-glacial rebound was the primary contributor to sea-level change over much of the 20th century along some parts of the East Coast--from Chesapeake Bay to New York as well as north of Maine. But short-term accelerations tend to be less sensitive to changes like post-glacial rebound that occur on time scales of thousands of years, said Davis.
Davis said that even though the results of their modeling do support the notion that sea level rise has been accelerating over the past 25 years, that doesn't mean it will continue. "What we're seeing is big," said Davis. "But there's nothing in this paper that says, 'Oh, I've discovered acceleration and we're all going to drown now.' You can't predict forward." There are many sources of feedback in the system that scientists still don't understand, he said.
Still, Davis suggested the findings might serve as a tool for local governments. "Suppose you're a mayor in Miami and you hear that the projections for Greenland ice melt are wrong, and they're going to be much greater in the next century. You have to worry much more than if you're a mayor in Nova Scotia. But then if you're talking about ocean currents, it's flipped," said Davis. "Wherever you live, you can't just go by these [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] reports that say global sea level rise is one number."
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
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Leadership and Space: A Conversation with Simonetta Di Pippo
The Women in Public Service Project will host the Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Simonetta Di Pippo. The discussion will focus on UNOOSA's leadership role in the space sector, the impact of equal gender representation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields, and Di Pippo's own experiences as a leader in STEM. As co-founder and the President of Women in Space Europe, she is helping to establish balanced gender representation at all levels of the European space sector.
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On October 17, Director of the Foreign Policy Initiative at the Institute for Women Policy Research Federiga Bindi joined Director of the Women in Public Service Project (WPSP) Gwen Young to engage in a conversation about leadership with Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs.
During this panel of women leaders, Simonetta explained how she rose through the ranks of the United Nations, as well as her plans for getting more young women involved in STEM and space exploration.
Simonetta may be the only woman who is a Director in all of UN – Vienna, but, as she explains, she has gotten comfortable being the only woman in the room. She went on to say that this used to be intimidating to her, but she is an expert in her field and thus there is no reason to be nervous. This sense of confidence carries into all of the work that Di Pippo does, especially her initiatives for creating "more space for women in space." While Di Pippo did not have any female mentors of her own (there were no women who came before her), she continues to serve as a role model for young women in technology today.
The rights of women are intrinsically tied with human development. This is one of the many reasons why UNOOSA and Simonetta Di Pippo's leadership are so important. As Di Pippo describes, one of the revolutionary things about UNOOSA is that while there are only 83 official member states, the Office on Outer Space Affairs considers space a resource for everyone and treats it as such. Its focus on transparency and cooperation is key in moving forward in space exploration; in fact, Di Pippo boasted proudly, every decision in UNOOSA is reached by consensus.
Going along with this, Di Pippo explained "space technology can be a tool of achieving the SDGs." The Sustainable Development Goals put forth by the United Nations are key in achieving gender equality, as they allow for more opportunities in developing countries. With an increase in understanding of space technology, there can be less strain on global resources and more opportunities for employment, to name just a couple highlights. The achievement of the SGDs through space not only empowers women in developing countries, but people everywhere.
Simonetta de Pippo is a leader in space technology, and has shattered yet another glass ceiling for future generations of women. Her drive for creative solutions, space exploration and women in STEM is an inspiration to women who before did not see themselves represented in such a dynamic field.
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Football's gone crazy
There have been plenty of ups and downs since the competition's inception in 1992, but is this Premier League season the weirdest yet?
Jonathan Northcroft
Blackpool have celebrated more goals than moneybags Manchester City this season (Clint Hughes)
Studying old league tables is archaeology for a football lover. Through them you can chart the game's evolution. Is the current Premier League table a blip or is something as drastic as a footballing ice age arriving?
Seldom has England's top flight appeared odder. Describing it sounds like a maths puzzle: Stoke, who played last night, started the game 16th but had a better home record than Newcastle in seventh, while Blackpool in 14th had scored more goals than fourth-placed Manchester City, including two in a victory at Liverpool.
That question is circulating in dressing rooms around England. "It's unbelievable how the league table looks," said Everton's Mikel Arteta.
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Use transparent messages instead of monolog dialogs
Aza Raskin condemn the use of monolog boxes - dialog boxes where there's nothing one can do but click "OK". Instead, she suggests the use of transparent messages:
"Transparent messages are the brainchild of Jef Raskin. It's simply a large and translucent message that's displayed over the contents of your screen. They fade away when the user takes any action (like typing or moving the mouse). In practice, the message is both noticeable yet unobtrusive. And because the message is transparent, you can see what's beneath it. It's just humane."
Monolog Boxes and Transparent Messages
Henrik Olsen - September 14, 2006	- via Usernomics
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Review of the book Designing for Interaction
Leo Frishberg from UXmatters has written a lengthy review of Dan Saffer's book Designing for Interaction.
To qoute:
"In fewer than 300 pages, he has attempted to cover the history, current practice, and notions about the future of the rapidly evolving discipline of interaction design (IxD)."
"Designing for Interaction succeeds as a quick survey of the landscape of IxD, suitable for familiarizing a project manager or an individual considering it as a career with the breadth of the practice. However, its broader discussions about design theory, product-development practices, and the like are less successful, because of their lack of attention to detail."
Frishberg concludes:
"All in all, the book is a substantial piece of work with an ambitious intent that Saffer delivers on well. I recommend it to those curious to learn more about the evolving discipline of interaction design."
Review of the book
Chapter 1 excerpt (PDF)
The book's companion website
The book at Amazon.com
Henrik Olsen - September 11, 2006
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How to transform field studies into features and functionality
Stephen Cox from the Australian consultancy Intuity has published a presentation with an overview of how to conduct field studies. The presentation features a case story about how a study of sports fans was transformed into improvements of the FOX Sports website.
Presentation about field studies (PDF)
Henrik Olsen - September 06, 2006	- via putting people first
See also: Cases and Examples (28) User research (23) Talks and presentations (18)
MyTravel redesign increases online booking conversion by 20%
A major redesign of MyTravel has increased their online booking conversion by 20%. Streamlining the booking process reduced booking times by up to 40% and resulted in a 10% improvement in conversion. A more intuitive navigation structure and better use of page real estate improved conversion by a further 10%.
ROI: MyTravel Redesign increases online Booking Conversion by 20%
See also: Cost-justification and ROI (27) Cases and Examples (28)
Interfaces for navigating large data tables
"After forms, data tables are likely the next most ubiquitous interface element designers create when constructing Web applications. Users often need to add, edit, delete, search for, and browse through lists of people, places, or things within Web applications. As a result, the design of tables plays a crucial role in such an application's overall usefulness and usability."
Luke Wroblewski shows a number of interface design solutions that enable users to find their way through large data sets.
Refining Data Tables
Henrik Olsen - August 29, 2006
See also: Web page design (40) Tips and guidelines (95)
Seth Godin on broken designs
Here's an entertaining video featuring Seth Godin talking about all the bad designs that surround us and why bad designs exist. The talk is from the Gel 2006 conference.
Henrik Olsen - August 13, 2006	- via goodexperinece.com
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Web navigation has changed
A click stream study from 2005 show changes in the way we navigate the web. More forms are submitted, more pages are opened in new windows and, consequently, the use of the back button has decreased.
- Navigation by clicking links has decreased slightly from 45.7% to 43.5% in the past 11 years
- Opening new windows has jumped from 0.2% to 10.5%
- Form submission has increased from 4.4% in 1996 to 15.3%
- With the increase in new windows and form submissions, the use of the back button has dropped from 35.7% in 1994 to 14.3%
- 76.5% of all selected links were visible in the browser window at load time
- 23.1% of all links followed were below the visible area
- Most users didn't utilize their entire screen for their browser window (about 160 horizontal 170 vertical pixels were unused)
Clickstream Study Reveals Dynamic Web
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Use liquid web page layouts and optimize for 1024x768
According to Jakob Nielsen, web pages should use a liquid layout that stretches to the user's current window size. He recommends that we optimize page layouts for 1024x768 pixels, which is currently the most widely used screen size, but that we make sure it works for any resolution from 800x600 to 1280 x1024.
Pages should also work at smaller and bigger sizes. But a less-than-great design is an acceptable compromise. Fewer than half a percent have screen resolutions of 640x480 and users with large screens rarely maximize their browser window.
A liquid design should scale all the way down to the tiny screens found on mobile devices. But mobile services should be designed specifically for use on small screens.
Screen Resolution and Page Layout
See also: Tips and guidelines (95) Web page design (40)
Video about user experience design at Google
Here's a 30 minute video presentation starring Jen Fitzpatrick, manager of the Google user experience team. She shares examples of how Google have improve the design of their products through user studies, log analysis, and feedback from customer support.
The video The Science and Art of User Experience at Google.
Henrik Olsen - July 11, 2006	- via Putting People First
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Do links need to be underlined?
Jared Spool has brought up the good old question about whether links need to be underlined.
He doubts that users are less likely to find what they are looking for at sites where links aren't underlined. People will quickly learn how to spot non-standard links by waving their mouse around to see where the browser gives them "the finger."
But users are trained to click on underlined text. Eyetracking studies show that people dart from underlined text to underlined text in their initial exploration of a page.
If sites have some links underlined and others not, people get confused. Jared concludes:
"We think the visual design element of the underline is not required, but it is cruel to make users work extra hard because you can't decide."
Do Links Need Underlines?
Henrik Olsen - July 06, 2006
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Home World Sports Avalanche, Nathan MacKinnon 'pretty close' on contract extension
Avalanche, Nathan MacKinnon 'pretty close' on contract extension
One can only assume he means the average annual value will be at least $10M, though even that would be a discount for the Stanley Cup champion.
MacKinnon, who just turned 27 two weeks ago, is headed into the final season of a seven-year, $44.1M contract signed in 2016 that has become one of the league's biggest bargains. For $6.3M against the cap, the Avalanche have received a three-time Hart Trophy finalist, Lady Byng winner, and one of the most dominant two-way centers in the league.
Since the start of the 2017-18 season, only Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl have outscored MacKinnon's 442 points, and both of them have played more games than the Colorado phenom. His 167 goals during that stretch put him seventh in the league, while his +88 rating (seventh-highest over that span) gives a glimpse of just how dominant the Avalanche have been whenever he is on the ice.
There's a real chance that MacKinnon – if he chooses to – could become the highest-paid player in the league on his next contract. That title currently goes to McDavid and his $12.5M cap hit. At the very least, one would expect MacKinnon to join the select group of players that earns at least $11M per season, which includes McDavid, Artemi Panarin, Auston Matthews, Erik Karlsson, John Tavares, and Drew Doughty for the 2022-23 season.
Amazingly, the Avalanche currently project to have the room to keep him, even at a price that high. The team has set up many of their contracts to expire at the end of this season, with Erik Johnson, J.T. Compher, Evan Rodrigues, Andrew Cogliano, and Darren Helm all coming off the books (if they choose to let them go). While there are other players – like star defenseman Devon Toews – to re-sign in the coming years, MacKinnon's contract will certainly take precedence.
It has been somewhat surprising that an extension hasn't been announced already, given he has been eligible for more than two months. Perhaps the team was allowing him and the rest of the Avalanche time to enjoy their celebratory offseason after finally breaking through and winning the Stanley Cup.
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Children's charity gets �50,000 for work with vulnerable youngsters
Published: 2:05 PM October 9, 2009 Updated: 8:15 AM October 14, 2020
A children s charity is getting a �50,000 cheque on Monday. School-Home Support which befriends around 5,000 children with behavioural, emotional and practical difficulties in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Southwark will be presented with the cheque from HS
A children's charity is getting a �50,000 cheque on Monday.
School-Home Support which befriends around 5,000 children with behavioural, emotional and practical difficulties in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Southwark will be presented with the cheque from HSBC bank's Learning Trust at Langdon Park School in Poplar. The presentation will mark 25 years of the charity's work.
The money will be used to continue the charity's work. Over 30 support workers befriend around 5,000 children across 40 of the most challenging schools.
The charity's chief executive Jan Tallis said: "In an average classroom one child will the main carer for a dependent relative, six will have been exposed to substance misuse, seven will have experienced violence and eight will live in poverty. It is these young people who are most at risk of joining the 935,000 of 16-24 year olds who are not in education, training or employment in the future."
The support workers take on issues like poverty, domestic abuse, mental and physical health problems, bullying, or whatever might be happening between school and home affecting vulnerable families.


Tuesday - GREATER ISSUES: The Citadel holds an installment of its Greater Issues Series. 11 a.m. McAlister Field House. Free. Scheduled speaker is Foster Friess, co-founder of Friess Associates, a privately owned investment manager that runs the Brandywine Funds family of mutual funds as well as a wide range of separate portfolios for both individual investors and large institutions. Topic: "Leadership Challenges of Today's Economy."


The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Georgia is seeking applications for membership on its Bench and Bar Committee. The purpose of the Committee is to promote communication about Court procedures, filings and other issues, and to assist both the Court and the bar in creating a more efficient environment. The committee will also consider changes to the Local Rules.
If you are interested in being considered for membership on this committee, please send an email describing your professional background, goals for this committee and any other information that may be helpful to benchandbar@ganb.uscourts.gov by January 15, 2016.
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The winter intersession gave me an opportunity to catch up on some reading—Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools by Diane Ravitch, Ph.D., was one of my reads. Last April, Dr. Ravitch presented at our inaugural Ruth S. Ammon Endowed Lecture in Education. She is well known as an education historian and, from 1991–1993, served as the assistant secretary of education in the administration of President George H.W. Bush.
Reign of Error documents Dr. Ravitch's deep concern for the fate of public education in the context of what she sees as an education reform agenda masterminded by corporations and private foundations. She makes the case that, in many instances, this reform agenda lacks a reasonable evidence base. For example, evaluating teachers based on student test scores, implementing merit pay for educators and replacing public schools with charter schools are all strategies that proponents claim improve outcomes for students. However, they all fail Dr. Ravitch's reality check and constitute the "reign of error" in the book's title. Dr. Ravitch provides plenty of examples of evidence-based solutions for improving outcomes for students—early childhood education being, to my mind, one of the most important and well researched.
My other reading choice was The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley. Ms. Ripley, a journalist for Time magazine, uses her book to examine education from the perspective of three high school students who opt to study abroad for a year—in Finland, South Korea and Poland, respectively. Following each student's journey across the globe, engaging with their hopes and educational aspirations, and comparing and contrasting their experiences with their American high schools makes for compelling reading. Using a survey of United States and international students studying abroad, Ms. Ripley reports on how those students perceived the curriculum, the differences in technology and whether the significance of doing well in scholastic sports was a factor in their academic performance. The survey certainly raises provocative comparisons.
As educators, we face so many complex issues in working to improve schooling, and both of these books make thoughtful and distinct contributions to that ongoing effort. Get reading and let me know what you think!


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Protecting Forests
The Wild Klamath-Siskiyou:
Home to Spectacular Forests
KS Wild's work over the past decades has kept tens of thousands of acres of native forests standing
The Klamath Siskiyou Mountains are home to some of the most spectacular forests in the world. Dense old growth forests, towering pines in oak woodlands, and alpine meadows all mix together in this world-class ecoregion. Our region borders the coastal Redwood forests (with the tallest trees in the world) to the west and the mighty Douglas fir forests of the Cascade Range in the east.
KS Wild focuses on public forests, mostly in the Rogue and Klamath River watersheds. Our trained staff and volunteers monitor public lands management on eight million acres (a forested area larger than the state of Maryland!). These public lands include the Medford and Klamath Falls Bureau of Land Management, and the Klamath, Six Rivers, Shasta-Trinity, and Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forests. Our goal is to protect the remaining wildlands, watersheds, and wildlife while encouraging restoration of forests that have been damaged by logging, mining, and development.
We are fortunate that the vast forests of the Klamath-Siskiyou continue to provide an immense variety of habitats and recreational opportunities. Much of the private, state, and county forests have been previously logged. Clear-cut logging and forest plantations of Douglas fir are commonly seen when flying above the state's forests.
Damaged by Clearcuts
Widespread clear-cut logging has destroyed old-growth habitat, ruined watersheds, and converted native forests throughout southern Oregon and northern California into biologically sterile tree plantations. Virtually all of the private, state, and county forests in the region have been clearcut and continue to be managed for timber production. The intact native forests that anchor the land and water of the region are found on lands owned by all Americans and managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.
The good news is that, unlike much of North America, the Klamath-Siskiyou still has large networks of wildlands and intact forests capable of acting as "source populations" for at-risk species. But ongoing old-growth logging and post-fire salvage timber sales continue to remove habitat and connectivity for rare old-growth dependent species.
Take Action to Protect Forests
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Alert: Ask the Forest Service to protect the Chetco Watershed
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The Hands that Touch the Land
Fire Scars: The Story of a Ponderosa Pine
Protecting the Best, Restoring the Rest
Forest fires are common in the Klamath-Siskiyou during the warm, dry summer months.
Local communities, scientists, conservationists, and some far-sighted federal land managers are working to develop a social consensus to restore and rehabilitate the vast tracts of public lands that have been damaged by prior logging and continuing fire suppression. The idea is to protect our remaining native and ancient forests, safeguard streamside ecosystems, and carefully thin dense second-growth tree farms. The ultimate goal in many of these projects: to reintroduce natural fire to fire-dependent forests. KS Wild is committed to protecting the best of what still remains and promoting restoration forestry where it will do the most good.
Thinning and Fire
Fire has shaped Klamath-Siskiyou forests for tens of thousands of years. The KS forests have a "mixed fire regime," meaning that they experienced low, moderate and high severity fires depending on the weather, fuels, and other factors. Native Americans also burned forests to encourage the growth of useful plants, such as oaks and beargrass.
Since fire suppression has been effective - about 100 years - small trees that would have burned are now encroaching into many forests and meadows. Some scientists argue our forests are now vulnerable to uncharacteristic, higher severity wildfire. Habitats like groves of native oaks are vanishing due to encroachment of trees that result from a lack of fire.
Protecting Homes and Lives
Hendrix Fire over Ashland July, 2018
People are increasingly settling further and further out into the forest-urban inter- face. Fires that were once a natural part of the basin now threaten communities and structures that have popped up in recent decades. In addition to restoring forests, treating high fire hazard areas and creating defensible space around these homes and communities has been a priority of the Oregon Department of Forestry, several municipalities and federal land managers.
Restoring Plantations
Logging has left indelible scars throughout the Klamath-Siskiyou's once bountiful forests. Large scale logging operations began in the early 1900s using railroads. By the 1950s, "clearcut" logging was common across the Pacific Northwest. But finally in the 1990s, growing awareness of forest ecology slowed the pace of clearcutting. As a result of this legacy, artificial tree "plantations" are widespread on public land in the region.
Recent scientific research shows that carefully thinning tree plantations can help restore these overly dense and unnatural forests. Research also show these plantations burn hotter than more natural forests. Thinning can help improve the habitat for wildlife and accelerate the development of old-growth forests. Ecologically based thinning projects can also produce timber from small trees that are in excess in the forest, taking pressure away from logging older forests.
Collaboration Can Work
The extreme complexity and variability of this region's forests make decisions about cutting trees very local. KS Wild has been a part of dozens of collaborative efforts focused on ecologically based thinning of small diameter trees in the Klamath-Siskiyou which help make those decisions. We partner with the Forest Service and BLM representatives, as well as sociologists, timber industry interests and others when possible and when forest restoration is driving the management decision, as opposed to timber production.
Getting Fire Back On The Ground
The ultimate goal of forest management in the Klamath-Siskiyou should be to get fire back on the ground under appropriate conditions. In some areas and weather conditions, wildfire can carry out its historic role in the ecology of forests. While this is not be possible near communities, there are many areas where wildfire use is appropriate under the right weather and fuels conditions. KS Wild generally support the use of prescribed fire to restore forests to more resilient conditions.