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The final General Membership Meeting of the Lincoln Music Teachers Association [LMTA] will be held Wednesday, May 15 at 10:30 a.m. at Fellowship Community Church, 8601 Holdrege Street. Elegance, East High School’s select women’s show choir will perform. Also performing will be Classical Guitarist Antonio Forgione. Forgione is a program teacher for the LMTA Music Outreach Program which provides low-cost lessons for children of families who can document need in addition to his full-time position as Senior Design Engineer, Software Development, at LI-COR Biosciences and other concert performances.
There will be a pot luck luncheon. Music educators of all disciplines interested in joining LMTA are invited to attend free of charge. To register for this event go to www.LMTA.info “Contact Us” button.
Elegance is the select women’s show choir directed by Brett Epperson at East High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, made up of 40 sophomore-through-senior singer-dancers, 23 student instrumentalists, and a supplemental crew. Elegance begins the year with a week of evening of choreography “camp” in August before daily rehearsals starting in fall semester. Show Choir Competition season runs January through early March, and Elegance placed 1st in the Unisex/Single Gender Division at three of four competitions entered in 2019. Their 2018-19 show celebrated one of America’s strongest women- Rosie the Riveter! Following the completion of the competition season, Elegance becomes half of our women’s concert choir, combining with our 9th Grade Women’s Choir. Together, they earned straight Division 1 ratings at District Music Contest in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Antonio Forgione Biography. A native of Sulmona, Italy, Antonio Forgione began his guitar studies at age nine under the tutelage of composer and mandolinist Mario Giusti. Continued guitar studies with ‘Duo Chitarristico Italiano’, and theory, music history and harmony studies with other teachers, led to Antonio’s formal music education at the L. Perosi Conservatory of Music in Campobasso. As a young guitarist, Antonio gave his first formal recital at age twelve and participated in national and international guitar competitions receiving praise and recognition. Master classes with José Thomas, David Russell and Angelo Gilardino among others, and extensive performing, enhanced Antonio’s skills as a solo and chamber musician. He has performed music for multiple guitars, guitar and voice/flute/violin/piano, and occasionally with orchestra. Antonio has performed in Lincoln and its surroundings with pianist Ken Hoppmann and flutist Betsy Bobenhouse. He teaches classical guitar in hopes of passing on his deep passion and knowledge for the guitar repertoire. Having achieved the equivalent of a music degree by age eighteen, Antonio chose to study electronics and telecommunications engineering in college. Upon graduation from the Polytechnic University of Milano, Antonio worked as a Design Engineer at FAI-Instruments in Rome and as a Post-Doc at the University of Viterbo. In 2011, Antonio and his family moved to Lincoln where he is employed by LI-COR Biosciences as a Senior Software Engineer. He and his wife Monica are proud and busy parents of two boys, 8 and 5 years old.
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