Music Since 1945

Lana Stafford (flute) and Sabine Krantz (piano) perform master works for flute and piano written between 1945 and 2021.

Program
Ian Clarke: Deep Blue (2012), Hypnosis (1994) & Orange Dawn (2002)
Yuko Uebayashi: Calmato and Lento-Moderato from Flute Sonata No. 1 (2002)
Ernst von Dohnányi: Aria, Op. 48, No. 1 (1958)
Howard Hanson: Serenade, Op. 35 (1945)
Alison Loggins-Hull: Homeland (2021)

Lana Stafford is a freelance flutist and flute teacher, having earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in flute performance at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) as a Distinguished Honors Arts Scholar and Gobetti-Hoffman Memorial Flute Fellow. She was also the University at Buffalo Flute Teaching Assistant.

Ms. Stafford has performed as a recitalist in venues throughout Central New York and as a guest with Society for New Music, Syracuse Vocal Ensemble, Breadcrumbs Productions, and more. She has appeared in Staten Island Arts’ LUMEN Festival with choreographer Laura Neese and in Buffalo, NYC, and Baltimore in duos she commissioned with percussionist Shelly Purdy. The Society for New Music featured her as a soloist in the Composer/Performer “Live” Concert Series this year.

She is a past board member at the CNY Association of Music Teachers and Civic Morning Musicals, as well as past manager of the Symphoria Youth Orchestras. Currently, Lana is a board member of the Society for New Music, private flute instructor, and horse groom. Lana grew up in Tully, graduated from Manlius Pebble Hill, and is now based in the Skaneateles area. For more information, visit lanastafford.com.

Sabine Krantz was born in Sweden, and lived in Germany before moving to Norway, where she spent all of her school years. She went to a music high school before being accepted to the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo to study with Geir Henning Braaten, Jiri Hlinka and Sigurd Slåttebrekk. She graduated with a degree in piano pedagogy and performance. She spent a good amount of time outside of school as an accompanist for choirs and solo performances, teaching extra lessons, and directing a children’s choir.

She met her husband (from Minnesota) in Oslo, and they were married in Sweden in 1999, and have since had 4 children. They lived in Minneapolis for 5 years before moving to Syracuse. Ms. Krantz has been a self-employed, stay-at-home mom these last 20 years, and also home-schooled the kids since 2008.

She’s currently keeping a large private piano-and voice studio, and usually plays for several schools in the Syracuse area, including Setnor School of Music juries and recitals, Onondaga Community College vocal repertoire classes and juries, and choral concerts for F-M high school. She has taught choirs in the homeschool community since 2009.

She also plays for NYSSMA, the CMM vocal competition, CNYAMT instrumental competition, and other competitions and festivals in the area. She just finished a Master’s Degree in Vocal Pedagogy at SU in May 2021. She is co-founder of the Syracuse Youth Chorus.

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