REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR OUR NEXT IN-PERSON MEETING

December 3, 2022

Join us at The Grand in Long Beach, CA
for our Winter 2022 In-Person Regional Meeting

Jane Austen and the Musical Arts

The Grand, 4101 E. Willow Street, Long Beach 

The Catalina Room

9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

All events are open to JASNA-SW members as well as non-members.

COVID Restrictions will continue to be in effect for our in-person meetings until May 2023. Our board made the decision to follow the CDC guidelines once we reopened our in-person events beginning in May 2022. We require vaccination and updated booster shots for those in attendance to our events. Some people are more likely than others to get very sick if they get COVID-19. This includes people who are older, are immunocompromised, have certain disabilities, or have underlying health conditions. We have board members, speakers, and JASNA members who are included in the above list. We seek to promote good health to all who wish to gather with us in our shared admiration of Jane Austen.

DETAILS FOR EVENT:

OUR PROGRAM SPEAKERS/PERFORMERS 

We know that Jane Austen was an avid pianist, and we know that she enjoyed listening to music.  Join flutist Ann Erwin and pianist Edith Orloff in a concert exploring music that Jane could have heard and even played herself.  Included in the program will be pieces from the Austen Family Music Books, held at Chawton House.

Edith Oloff, Pianist

A versatile performer, pianist Edith Orloff is acclaimed as recitalist, chamber musician, and
concerto soloist, whose music-making is praised at home and abroad for interpretive vitality
and perceptive musicianship. Her concerts have taken her across the United States as well as
to Germany, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Italy, Canada, and Mexico. “Her
passagework purled, delicacy or crunch emerged to order from her rapid playing, chords had
a cushion of authority, articulation illuminated melody.” (Los Angeles Times) She is a
founding member of the Los Angeles-based Pacific Trio, with violinist Roger Wilkie and
cellist John Walz, which has toured the U.S. and Europe. The trio has served as ensemble-in-
residence at Idyllwild Arts summer festival, where Ms. Orloff has taught piano and chamber
music since 1976. She has recorded for the Yarlung, Marsyas, Capriccio, and Encora labels.
Her solo CD, “Personal Touch”, featuring varied works for solo piano by old masters and
contemporary composers, has garnered high praise in reviews by American Record Guide
and Germany’s PianoNews. Ms. Orloff holds two degrees from California Institute of the Arts,
where she studied piano with Earle Voorhies and chamber music with Cesare Pascarella.
Other influential teachers were Reginald Stewart, Jerome Lowenthal, Rosina Lhevinne, Daniel Pollack, Hellmut Hidegheti, and Roberto Eyzaguirre.

Ann Erwin, Flutist

Flutist Ann Erwin holds music degrees from the University of Southern California and
UC San Diego, and was awarded Annette Kade and Harriet Hale Woolley Fellowships

to study the flute in Paris, where her teachers were Michel Debost and Ida Ribera. In
Southern California she studied with Roger Stevens, Anne Diener Zentner, and Damian
Bursill-Hall. She also studied chamber music at the Yale Summer School in Norfolk,
Connecticut. Ann has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Opera Orchestras,
New Hampshire Music Festival, Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra, Ventura
Symphony Orchestra, Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival, Strauss Symphony of
America, and many other organizations. She has served as an Assistant Professor of
Flute at the University of Wyoming and the University of Tennessee, and has also
taught at the University of New Hampshire and Cerritos College. Currently Principal
Flute of San Diego’s Classics Philharmonic and a member of the Channel Islands
Chamber Orchestra, Ann maintains a private flute studio and is an active flute
adjudicator. She often performs recitals of music by women composers, and chairs the student Women Composers Festival for the Conejo Valley Branch of the Music Teachers Association of California. Ann is a lifelong Jane Austen fan. She attended her first JASNA AGM in 2021 and loved it.

Cara King, English Country Dance Caller

Cara King is a freelance researcher, caller, and teacher of historical dance, with a focus on English Country Dance and the social dancing of Jane Austen’s England.  She has taught online classes on the subject for Regency Fiction Writers, lectured on it for the Historical Tea & Dance Society, and twice been Dance Mistress at the annual ball for The Beau Monde (the Regency chapter of the Romance Writers of America).  Cara regularly calls with the Historical Tea & Dance Society and Monrovia English Country Dance.