THE RSSPA PRESENTS A HOLIDAY CONCERT STARRING TWO FAVORITE SONS – YREKA NATIVE KEVIN MCKEE AND HONORARY YREKAN JACEK MYSINSKI
Pianist Jacek Mysinski’s December concerts have become a tradition and this season the much anticipated event takes on an additional element with trumpeter and Yreka native, Kevin McKee. The two musicians appear together for the first time at the Yreka Community Theater in a Red Scarf Society for the Performing Arts holiday concert on Sunday December 28 at 3:00pm.
McKee, son of Luanne and Yreka High School music teacher, Brian McKee, began his trumpet studies in fifth grade. He has since gone on to earn a Bachelor’s Degree from California State University Sacramento and a Master’s Degree in trumpet performance from the University of Maryland. His performances and studies have taken him to the Aspen Music Festival and the Music Masters Course in Kazusa, Japan. Kevin is a freelance trumpeter and teacher in the Washington, DC area; is a member of the Continuum Brass Quintet, the Great Noise Ensemble and has published two compositions, “Escape” for brass quintet and “Vuelto del Fuego” (Ride of Fire), published through Balquidder Music.
Warsaw born, Mysinski, began his studies at the age of seven under the tutelage of Halina Dzierzanowska. He has won many prestigious awards; among them the Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition and Special Prize for the best performance of Bach at the Polish National Competition. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music New York where he was associated with Jerome Lowenthal. Currently Jacek lives in New York where he devotes his time to jazz and composition studies and after having worked with the Mark Morris Dance Group earlier this year, has been invited to re-join them in 2009. Through his many appearances in Yreka, Jacek has come to be regarded as an adopted son. In a recent communication Jacek said, “I am thrilled to be back in Yreka!”.
A champagne reception to welcome home native son, Kevin McKee and honorary son, Jacek Mysinski, will be held immediately following the concert at the Yreka Community Center. Tickets, $15 and $5 for students are available at Scott Valley Drug in Etna, Village Books in Mt. Shasta and in Yreka at Surroundings, Nature’s Kitchen and the Yreka Chamber of Commerce office; or visit www.redscarfsociety.org.
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