Summer Opera Theatre •

At CU, a 'Magic Flute' With Stardust to Spare - Tim Page, Washington Post Staff Writer, The Washington Post, Tuesday, June 20, 2006 "... it was worth the trip to Catholic University's Hartke Theater Sunday afternoon to see and hear the Summer Opera Theater Company's new rendition ... this "Magic Flute" nevertheless captures both the charm and the majesty of an odd but ever-appealing work. ...Kate Tamarkin's conducting was elegant... [full review...] Performing Arts AllArtsReview4U online - Bob Anthony "The Summer Opera Theater Company at Hartke gives a sublime production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" that held the audience in full adulation throughout. ... Music lovers...don't miss this one!"

Summer Opera Theatre •

'Rigoletto': A Summer Treat - Joseph McLellan, The Washington Post, Tuesday, July 12, 2005 "... Conductor Kate Tamarkin paces and balances the music for maximum impact..."      The Summer Opera Theatre's "Rigoletto," now playing at the Hartke Theater, is one of the highlights of Washington's busy opera season. [full review...]

Traditionally grand 'Rigoletto' Stirring end to company's season - T. L. Ponick, The Washington Times, Saturday, July 16, 2005 "... The ... orchestra, under the baton of Kate Tamarkin accompanied ... with sensitivity and fluidity."      The Summer Opera Theatre Company's high-energy production of Giuseppe Verdi's enduringly popular "Rigoletto," being staged at Catholic University's Hartke Theater, successfully caps off a short but significant 2005 season.. [full review...]

Debut with Summer Opera Theatre •

Troupe Goes Out on a High Note - Joseph McLellan, The Washington Post, Tuesday, July 13, 2004 "... Kate Tamarkin's conducting ... first class."      To get maximum benefit from the latest offering of the Summer Opera Theatre, you must love the soprano voice. ...      Kate Tamarkin's conducting, the distinctive sets of Christopher Ash and the stage direction by Leland P. Kimball III are all first class. [full review...]

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra •

Guest Engagement with the Shanghai Symphony Orcestra, Shanghai, China - June 4, 2004
	WAGNER: Overture to “Rienzi” BARBER: Adagio for Strings RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin DVORAK: Symphony #8 in G Major Op.88

Monterey Symphony Orchestra •

"... Tamarkin's vivid accounts take symphony patrons on a refresing excursion into music of the Baroque period."

Final Season as Music Director [Message from the President - The Kate Tamarkin Award]

Conductor Tamarkin's adieu to joy - Barbara Rose Shuler, The Monterey County Herald, Tuesday, May 25, 2004    On Sunday afternoon, the air of Carmel's Sunset Theater was charged with the uplifting message, "Joy, beautiful divine spark, your bright power unites what has been divided. We enter your sanctuary."      As Kate Tamarkin conducted the last section of the program that marks the end of her tenure as music director of the Monterey Symphony, Frederich Schiller's famous ode, set to voices raised in song, affirmed the presence of joyous being in our lives.      Fear not, the music says, The light of peace and gladness is here now.      This is the message, by her own statement, that Tamarkin wants to leave with us. And, Beethovens's "Choral" Symphony No.9 in D minor remains second to none in delivering it. [full review...] [program...]

Monterey Symphony concludes season
- Barbara Rose Shuler, The Monterey County Herald, Thursday, May 15-21, 2003

   The Monterey Symphony finishes its 2002-2003 season with a program that includes a California premiere by composer/guitarist Jeffrey Van. Music director Kate Tamarkin conducts Van's "Concerto for Two Guitars and Chamber Orchestra," in which the composer serves as one of the soloists. [full review...]

Symphony's finale a rip-roaring event
- Lyn Bronson, Californian, Monday, May 19, 2003

   ...By any standard, its last Monterey Symphony concert of the season was a rip-roaring event equally divided between perennial favorites and something new.
   Maestro Tamarkin began the afternoon by leading the orchestra through a stylish performance of Ravel's "Tombeau de Couperin."... The final two movements "Menuet" and "Rigaudon" made a terrific effect as the strings and winds played with considerable precision and charm.Raúl Melo. [full review...]

Monterey Symphony Valentine's Day
- Lyn Bronson, Editor, Peninsula Reviews, February 16, 2003

   There sure were plenty of goose bumps to be had as two magnificent singers helped the Monterey Symphony celebrate the Valentine's Day weekend. It was a special tribute to love featuring arias from Puccini's "La bohème" and "Manon Lescaut" as well as instrumental selections by Verdi, Puccini and Tchaikovsky. Music Director Kate Tamarkin shared the limelight on this occasion with soprano Kaori Sato and tenor Raúl Melo. [full review...]

Wallfisch inspired in symphony showcase
- Barbara Rose Shuler, Special to the Herald, The Monterey County Herald, January 21, 2003

   Cellist Raphael Wallfisch's profound romantic soul took wing with the Monterey Symphony Sunday afternoon in Pacific Grove.
    Music director Kate Tamarkin conducted a trio of works for this third concert of the season. [full review...]

Symphony cooks up feast for ears
- Lyn Bronson, Californian, January 20, 2003

     The Monterey Symphony, under the direction of music director Kate Tamarkin, gave us a rousing concert Sunday afternoon that had a little something for everyone.
    We had delicious tunes from Alexander Borodin, a hair-raising contemporary work by Andrzej [sic] Panufnik that knocked our socks off, and finally one of the great romantic concertos for cello featuring guest artist Rafael Wallfisch. [full review...]

Symphony opens on a romantic note
- Barbara Rose Shuler, Special to the Herald, The Monterey County Herald, October 14, 2003

[Excerpts]    The Monterey Symphony launched its 2002-2003 season ... in a mode of delectably unabashed romanticism Sunday afternoon. With her characteristic precision and elegance, Kate Tamarkin guided the symphony through an exhilarating trio of Romantic era crowd-pleasers, culminating in Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony.
    After the opening flourish of the "Star Spangled Banner," Hector Berlioz' showy and demanding Le Corsaire Overture, Op. 21 proved the orchestra unwaveringly fit and unified after months apart.
   ...The ultimate proving ground for the orchestra Sunday afternoon arrived with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E Minor. An admirable feature of Tamarkin's conducting style is the authoritative command she brings to large works of the repertoire in combination with her ability to intricately shape the music. She leaves nothing to chance. The orchestra played the classic favorite with panache with some fine solo work by the principals throughout the four movements of the work.
    The thrillingly big finish of this symphony brought this first concert of the season to a joyful conclusion. ...

Guest pianist wows symphony audience Sunday
- Lyn Bronson, The Californian, October 14, 2003

[Excerpts]     ... With Maestro Kate Tamarkin once again at the helm, after the obligatory season-opening "Star Spangled Banner," the concert got off to a satisfying start with the overture, "Le Corsaire," by Berlioz, which surprisingly has never before been performed by the Monterey County Symphony. It received an exciting rhythmic performance under the direction of Tamarkin. There was a lovely interplay between strings, winds and brass. The orchestra sounded very fine indeed.

Former music director returns as special guest
- Jim Lowe, Staff Writer, The Sunday Times Argus, Sunday, March 16, 2003

   ...Kate Tamarkin, the popular Vermont Symphony Orchestra music director of the previous decade, will return to Vermont this week to guest-conduct the VSO... [full review...]

Tamarkin and Brainerd interpret Shawn's work with aplomb
- Dan Wolfe, From the Aisle Seat, March, 2003

   The Vermont Symphony Orchestra concert was exceptionally fine and exciting last Saturday evening, 22 March. Kate Tamarkin, former Artistic Director and conductor was enthusiastically welcomed back to the podium, and she brought with her a new work by Bennington composer Allen Shawn, as well as the baritone, Clayton Brainerd, who had originated the role. [full review...]

Tamarkin offers new Vermont work
- Jim Lowe, Times Argus Arts Editor, The Times Argus, Wednesday, March 26, 2003

[Excerpts]        Burlington - Kate Tamarkin proved she still has what it takes to charm Vermont audiences, Saturday at the Vermont Symphony Orchestra concert at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. She did pretty well with the orchestra too.
   Tamarkin, during her tenure as the VSO's music director..., became popular throughout the state... Now music director of the Monterey (Calif.) Symphony, she returned as guest conductor last week...
   Tamarkin brought the state a gift, as well, a new piece of music by a Vermont composer. Tamarkin and the Monterey Symphony had commissioned and premiered Bennington composer Allen Shawn's "And in the air these sounds...," an operatic work for baritone and orchestra. Tamarkin and the VSO gave the work its Vermont premiere Saturday, and it seemed a popular success, given the audience's enthusiastic response, as well as a musical one.
    ...Tamarkin and the VSO delivered with conviction. This is an intriguing work...

Carolina Chamber Symphony •

BIG BANG: Concert fills air with fireworks
- Ken Keuffel, Journal Arts Reporter, The Winston Salem Journal, March 15, 2003

[Excerpts]     ...The players, ably conducted by Kate Tamarkin, made the most of a rare opportunity to perform gems from the 1700s. ... Tamarkin, one of only a handful of female conductors of stature and experience around, is one of two candidates vying to become the symphony's next music director. She established her credentials as a serious contender to succeed Robert Franz.

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra •

On Wings of Music
- With Leslie Newman, Flute - March 13, 2003

TCHAIKOVSKY
Swan Lake: Suite, Op. 20a (Selections)
ARNOLD
Concert No. 1 for Flute and Strings, Op. 45
VIVALDI
Flute Concerto in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3, RV 428 "Il gardellino" (The Goldfinch")
ROSSINI
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie): Overture
COULTHARD
The Bird of Dawning Singeth all Night Long
RESPIGHI
Pini di Roma (The Pines of Rome)

Monterey Symphony Orchestra Reviews •
Brahms is the perfect capper
- Lyn Bronson, Californian

...it was the Brahms Symphony No. 2 that really blew us away. Maestro Tamarkin really made the Monterey Symphony sound like a major orchestra, and we heard a performance that was rich and satisfying.
... What a way to end the season! [full review...]

Symphony adapts with warmth and balance
- Nathalie Plotkin, The Herald

The orchestra was well disciplined and well prepared, showing a serious dedication to encompassing the challenges of the work which they did very well. [full review...]

Final Season with East Texas Symphony Orchestra •
     Can this really be the last of the NINTH INNING here for ETSOA Conductor Kate Tamarkin as she wraps up a successful 10 years of musical activities in this community? Seems as if it was just yesterday that Kate began a short commute from the Dallas Symphony associate conductor position, then added the Vermont State Orchestra, conducting classes at University of Minneapolis, MN, and a myriad of guest conducting jaunts across the US (and Moldova). 'Tis been a whirlwind of activity, marriage, and jetting in and out of communities in a variety of times and temperatures (100 degrees/Dallas noon-but 10 below at bedtime in Minneapolis.)
     A spate of wonderful guest artists drawn from the rising prodigy ranks as well the familiar virtuoso performers has been Kate's 'gift' to ETSOA audiences, plus music that has been the gamut of traditional, (some little heard of favorite composers.) And ETSOA has hosted composers, including Donald Grantham, Hilary Tan, and Kevin Putz. Add in the semi-staged operas of Magic Flute, Merry Widow and the rousing Park, Youth and Kinderkonzerts for a charismatic, fun and musically enriching decade.
    KATE-We wish you well in your California conducting role-and thanks for all of our wonderful musical memories. [more articles...]

July 4th concert •
with members of the MSO & Santa Cruz Symphony featuring The 5th Dimension.

World Premiere •
Allen Shawn's "And in the Air These Sounds...", a work for Baritone and orchestra composed by Allen Shawn with words by Jamaica Kincaid

Clayton Brainerd, the featured soloist for the Shawn work with Kate

An absorbing Steinbeck birthday concert - Barbara Rose Shuler
Symphony to honor Steinbeck - Las Vegas Sun
Press Release

Interview on Oxygen •
with May Lee

3rd Season •
South Carolina Conductor's Institute