IRENE LONGACRE-WHITESIDE

AGE 67  I  ARLINGTON, TEXAS  I  UNITED STATES/CANADA
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

“Music is the one medium that we know is happening in heaven and on earth.” Irene Longacre-Whiteside believes that with age, for her, has come a “fresh awareness of the beauty and meaning in the complexities of the music I play and hear.” Over the last 23 years, she has developed a career as a high-level administrator, most recently working at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport as an executive assistant. In her formative years, Irene studied piano formally at the Royal Conservatory of Toronto, the University of Calgary, and the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She then worked at The Conservatory at Mount Royal University, in her hometown of Calgary, before making the career transition away from music. And other passions abound: she enjoys the study of systematic theology, participating in international pistol shooting competitions, and scuba diving.

Repertoire

Preliminary Round

MOZART Sonata No. 13 in B-flat Major, K. 333 (I)
PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, op. 14 (IV)
SCRIABIN Etude in D-sharp Minor, op. 8, no. 12

Semifinal Round 

VILLA-LOBOS “Negrinha,” “A probrezinha,” and “Branquinha” from A prole do bebê
RAVEL “Alborada del gracioso” from Miroirs
CHOPIN Rondo in E-flat Major, op. 16
RACHMANINOV–GRYAZONOV Italian Polka

Final Round 

SAINT-SAËNS Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, op. 22 (III)