2006-02-02 Artist Faculty Chamber Series [recital program]

              Artist Faculty Chamber Series
presents
Testimony and Tribute
In celebrat ion of Shost akovic h o n his 100t h b irt hd ay, and Mo zar t on his 250th
Faculty and Guest Artist Recital
Thursday, February 2, 2006
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
Commentary by Gregory Carroll
Quintet for piano & strings, in G Minor, Op. 57 Dimitri Shostakovich
Prelude; Lento (1906-1975)
Fugue; Adagio
Scherzo; Allegretto
Intermezzo; Lento
Finale; Allegretto
John Fadial, violin
Janet Orenstein, violin
Scott Rawls, viola
Brooks Whitehouse, violoncello
James Douglass, piano
Intermission
Serenade No. 10 in B flat Major (“Gran Partita”) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
K. 361 (K. 370a) (1756-1791)
Largo - Allegro molto
Menuetto - Trio I - Trio II
Adagio
Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio I - Trio II
Romanze: Adagio - Allegretto - Adagio
Thema mit variationen
Rondo: Allegro molto
Mary Ashley Barret, Thomas Pappas, oboe
Kelly Burke, Shawn Copeland, clarinet
Edwin Riley, David Allen, Basset horn
Michael Burns, Carol Lowe, bassoon
Lynn Beck, Bama Deal, Mary Pritchett Boudreault, Kate Hopper, horn
Paul Quast, double bass
Kevin Geraldi, conductor
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The hall is equipped with a listening assistance system.
Patrons needing such assistance should contact an usher in the lobby.
“Wow!” The Washington Post, “sparkling technique” L’Est Republicain, Nancy, France. Associate
Professor of Violin John Fadial has garnered critical acclaim for performances around the globe.
Though he is familiar to Greensboro audiences through his regular appearances on the UNCG
School of Music stages and as concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, he also
maintains a vigorous schedule as soloist, chamber music performer and recording artist and
teacher throughout the year.
He has performed on four continents as a United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador
and has appeared at such notable venues as the Smithsonian Museum, the Philips Collection,
and the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center, with numerous engagements at such summer
festivals as Aspen, Banff (Canada), Brevard, Eastern, Heidelberg (Germany), Mirecourt (France),
Costa Rica and Salvador (Brazil). He has shared the stage in chamber music collaborations with
pianist Jon Nakamatsu, harpsichordist Anthony Newman, cellists Tillman Wick and Paul Katz,
violist John Graham, and bandoneon virtuoso David Alsina of the New York Tango Trio, among
others, and has performed widely in the U.S. and Europe since 1997 as violinist of the critically
acclaimed Chesapeake Piano Trio.
The 2004-2005 season featured concerts throughout the U.S., Brazil and France. Highlights
included: the French premiere, with cellist Beth Vanderborgh, of William Bolcom’s Suite for Violin
and Cello, performed in the historic Salle Poirel in Nancy (site of the world premier of the Poeme
of Ernest Chausson, by the great Belgian virtuoso Eugene Ysaye), and chamber music
performances with Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Lynn Harrell, Bella Davidovich and the Quatuor Stanislas.
Fadial’s recent recording, with members of UNCG’s Artist Faculty Chamber Players, of the
chamber music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for the Centaur label was a Featured New Release at
Tower Records.com for spring of 2005, and was deemed “not to be missed” by American Record
Guide. In October of 2005 he will give the world premier of Arthur Gottschalk’s Concerto for Violin
and Symphonic Wind Ensemble in Aycock Auditorium on the campus of UNCG, as part of the
SCI National Conference for contemporary music.
John Fadial also has established a national reputation as teacher. His students have been
winners of the Pittsburgh Symphony Young Artist Solo Competition and the Eastern Music
Festival Concerto Competition, and include collegiate finalists and junior prizewinners in the
Music Teachers National Association National Competitions. They have received scholarships for
study at institutions including the Eastman School, Oberlin, the Peabody Institute, and the Juilliard
School; and they have performed as members of the National Repertory Orchestra and the
touring company of the Broadway show Fiddler on the Roof, as concertmaster. Dr. Fadial holds
degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts (BM), the Eastman School of Music (MM) and
the University of Maryland (DMA) and maintains a large class of very talented students ranging
from undergraduate through the graduate level.
John Fadial teachers have included Elaine Richey, Charles Castleman, Zoltan Szekely and
Arnold Steinhardt. His mentors also include Joseph Silverstein, Jan DeGaetani and members of
the Cleveland, Juilliard and Guarneri quartets.
Janet Orenstein enjoys an active performing career in the United States and abroad as both a
chamber musician and soloist. As a founding member of the Guild Trio, she has won the USIA
Artistic Ambassador and Yellow Springs Competitions, and has toured extensively with this group
in Canada, Europe and the United States. From 1996-2001 she performed and taught violin at
UVA where the Guild Trio held the position of Ensemble-in-Residence. As winner of the1996
USIA Duo Competition, she gave recitals and master classes in seven African countries with
pianist Christina Dahl. She has been a top prizewinner in numerous competitions, including the
Philadelphia Orchestra Concerto Competition and the West Palm Beach Invitational Concerto
Competition. Since coming to North Carolina with her husband, UNCG cello professor Brooks
Whitehouse and their two sons, Ms. Orenstein has appeared as soloist with the Salisbury
Symphony Orchestra, and in recital at Lees-McRae and Mt. Olive Colleges. She has also
performed at Meredith College where the Guild Trio was resident ensemble for the 2003 NCMTA
State Conference. Her principal teachers include Joyce Robbins, Szymon Goldberg, Ivan
Galamian and Christine Dethier.
Scott Rawls has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in the United States, Canada,
Mexico, Japan, and Europe. Chamber music endeavors include performances with the Diaz Trio,
Kandinsky Trio and Ciompi Quartet as well as with members of the Cleveland, Audubon and
Cassatt String Quartets. His most recent CD recording, released on the Centaur label, features
the chamber music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and was released summer 2004. His recording of
chamber works for viola and clarinet was released spring 2003 on the same label. The
ensemble, Middle Voices, will record another disc for Centaur featuring the chamber music of
American composer, Eddie Bass. Additional chamber music recordings can be heard on the CRI,
Nonesuch, Capstone, and Philips labels. Also a champion of new music, Rawls has toured
extensively as a member of Steve Reich and Musicians since 1991. As the violist in this
ensemble, he has performed the numerous premieres of The Cave and Three Tales, multimedia
operas by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot, videographer. And under the auspices of presenting
organizations such as the Wiener Festwochen, Festival d'Automne a Paris, Holland Festival,
Berlin Festival, Spoleto Festival USA and the Lincoln Center Festival, he has performed in major
music centers around the world including London, Vienna, Rome, Milan, Tokyo, Prague,
Amsterdam, Brussels, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. He is a founding member of the
Locrian Chamber Players, a New York City based group dedicated to performing new music. Dr.
Rawls currently serves as Associate Professor of Viola and Chair of the Instrumental Division in
the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Under the baton of
maestro Dmitry Sitkovetsky, he plays principal viola in the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. He
is very active as guest clinician, adjudicator, and master class teacher at universities and festivals
in America and Europe. During the summers, Rawls plays principal viola in the festival orchestra
at Brevard Music Center where he also coordinates the viola program. He holds a BM degree
from Indiana University and a MM and DMA from State University of New York at Stony Brook.
His major mentors include Abraham Skernick, Georges Janzer, and John Graham.
Brooks Whitehouse (BA, Harvard College; MMA and DMA, SUNY Stony Brook) comes to
Greensboro from the University of Florida where he spent a year as Assistant Professor of Cello
and Chamber Music. Whitehouse has performed and taught chamber music throughout the US
and abroad, holding Artists-in-Residence positions at SUNY Stony Brook, the Guild Hall in East
Hampton, NY, the University of Virginia (as a member of The Guild Trio) and The Tanglewood
Music Center. The Guild Trio was a winner of both the "USIA Artistic Ambassador" and "Chamber
Music Yellow Springs" competitions, and with them he has performed and held master classes
throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Norway, Turkey, the former Yugoslavia,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Portugal, France and Australia. In 1991 The Guild Trio received
a three-year grant from Chamber Music America for their unique music/medicine residency at
SUNY Stony Brook's Medical School. As a soloist Whitehouse has appeared with the New
England Chamber Orchestra, the Nashua Symphony, the New Brunswick Symphony, the Billings
Symphony, and the Owensboro Symphony, and has appeared in recital throughout the
northeastern United States. His performances have been broadcast on WQXR's "McGraw-Hill
Young Artist Showcase", WNYC's "Around New York," and the Australian and Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation networks. He has held fellowships at the Blossom and Bach Aria
festivals, and was winner of the Cabot prize as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. As
guest artist he has appeared with the Seacliffe Chamber Players, the New Millennium Ensemble,
the JU Piano Trio, The Apple Hill Chamber Players, the Atelier Ensemble and the New Zealand
String Quartet. His principal teachers were Timothy Eddy and Norman Fischer.
James Douglass received his first degrees in piano performance from the University of Alabama
and subsequently earned a DMA in Keyboard Collaborative Arts from the University of Southern
California. He has served on the faculties of Mississippi College, Occidental College (Los
Angeles), the University of Southern California, and Middle Tennessee State University and in
2004 began teaching in the AIMS program in Graz, Austria as a coach in the Lieder Studio and
the instructor of collaborative piano. As a collaborative pianist he has performed across the
United States and in Europe and has been heard on public radio and television broadcasts in Los
Angeles, New Orleans, Nashville, Mississippi, and Alabama, as well as the Welsh National
Television in Great Britain. Dr. Douglass joins the faculty of UNCG this year as assistant
professor of collaborative piano and vocal coach.
Mary Ashley Barret has been on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
since 1998. She holds the BM from The Eastman School of Music, the MM from Baylor
University, and the DM with a certificate in the Pedagogy of Theory from Florida State University.
An active performer, Barret is currently a member of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, and
principal oboe in the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with the
Salisbury Symphony, the Pottstown Symphony, the UNCG Orchestra, the Florida State Wind
Orchestra, and has presented numerous guest recitals and master classes throughout the United
States, Caribbean, New Zealand and Australia. In the summer of 2003, she was a host for the
International Double Reed Society Conference. Barret is a member of the EastWind Trio
d’Anches the Cascade Wind Quintet, and can be heard on the recording "Out of the Woods:
Twentieth-Century French Wind Trios" with TreVent, and Centaur Records’ The Russian Clarinet
and Samuel Coleridge-Tayor.
Thomas Pappas holds the BA degree from Grace College, IN, the MM from the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, and is currently working on the DMA at UNCG. Active as an oboe
soloist, chamber, and orchestra musician, Pappas has performed throughout the United States,
Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Wales. Recent solo appearances include
performances of two oboe concertos with the Aalen Symphony Orchestra in Germany, where he
grew up and first learned how to play the oboe.
Kelly Burke joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1989. She is
currently the principal clarinetist of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and bass clarinetist of
the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra. Equally at home playing Baroque to Bebop, she has
appeared in recitals and as a soloist with symphony orchestras throughout the United States,
Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and Russia. An avid chamber musician, Burke is
frequently heard in concert with the Mallarmé Chamber Players, for whom she plays both clarinet
and bass clarinet, the East Wind Trio d'Anches, Middle Voices (clarinet, viola and piano), and the
Cascade Wind Quintet. Burke's discography includes several recent releases with Centaur
Records: The Russian Clarinet, with works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Glinka, Melkikh, and
Goedicke; Middle Voices: Chamber Music for Clarinet and Viola, featuring works by several
American composers; and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Chamber Music featuring the quintet and
nonet. She has also recorded for Telarc, Albany and Arabesque labels. Burke has received
several teaching awards, including UNCG's Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, the School of
Music Outstanding Teacher Award, has been named several times to Who's Who Among
America's Teachers, and was recently honored with the 2004 UNC Board of Governor's Teaching
Excellence Award. She is the author of numerous pedagogical articles and the critically acclaimed
book Clarinet Warm-Ups: Materials for the Contemporary Clarinetist. She holds the BM and MM
degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the DMA. from the University of Michigan. Burke
is an artist/clinician for Rico International and Buffet Clarinets.
Shawn Copeland is an active chamber musician and a founding member if Una Voce, the UNCG
graduate clarinet quartet who recently performed at ClarinetFest 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. Before
coming to Greensboro, Mr. Copeland was a Talent Casting Coordinator for Walt Disney
Entertainment, Inc. He served as co-principal for Southern Winds, a professional wind ensemble
in Orlando, Florida and as second clarinetist/bass clarinetist for the Bach Festival Orchestra in
Winter Park, FL. He currently performs with the Carolina Pops, the Greensboro Symphony
Orchestra and the Winston Salem Symphony.
Dr. Edwin Riley is a nationally known recitalist, soloist, and clinician. He received his B.M. and
M.S. degrees from The Juilliard School and his D.M.A. degree from the University of Iowa. His
teachers include Bernard Portnoy, Joseph Allard, George Silfies, and Himie Voxman.
Formerly, Dr. Riley played in the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski, and was
principal clarinet in the Cedar Rapids Symphony (Iowa). He also played clarinet in the Atlanta
Opera Orchestra.
Dr. Riley currently teaches clarinet at UNC Greensboro. Dr. Riley plays assistant principal/2nd
clarinet in the Greensboro Symphony and plays regularly as a substitute for the North Carolina
Symphony. Most recently he plays principal clarinet in the Carolina Ballet.
Dr. Riley plays Selmer (Paris) clarinets and has been a national clinician with the Conn-Selmer
Company since 1979. He has performed clinics at Midwest in Chicago, MENC, Texas
Bandmasters, and over 30 state and regional MENC conventions. Recently, he has given clinics,
recitals and master classes at over 100 universities, colleges, and conservatories throughout the
US as a part of a major educational project by the Conn-Selmer Co.
David R. Allen received a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Master
of Music from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently completing a Doctor of Musical Arts
Degree at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In the spring of 1998, Mr. Allen studied
chamber music at the European Mozart Academy in Poland. He has performed with the
Greensboro Symphony, Charlotte Civic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra and has
participated in recordings with the Keystone Winds. He has performed in chamber music concerts
and recitals in Europe and the Middle East including a performance the Usedomer Musikfestival
in Germany with the Pan Wind Quintet. In July 2005, he performed at ClarinetFest in Japan as a
member of the Una Voce Quartet. His primary teachers have been Kelly Burke and Thomas
Thompson. David Allen is currently Instructor of clarinet at Radford University in Virginia and has
served on the faculties of Queens University of Charlotte and The University of North Carolina at
Asheville.
Michael Burns holds the BM degree from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, the
MM from the New England Conservatory, and the DMA from the University of Cincinnati College-
Conservatory of Music. Burns has performed in numerous professional orchestras including the
Cincinnati and the New Zealand Symphonies and played Principal in the Midland/Odessa,
Richmond and Abilene Symphonies, and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Prior to UNCG he
taught at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Indiana State University, and Midland College. He
remains active as a solo and chamber performer with numerous performances at International
Double Reed Society conventions, recitals and masterclasses throughout North America and the
South Pacific, and is bassoonist in the EastWind Ensemble and the Cascade Quintet. He has
recorded for the Centaur, CAP, Telarc, EMI, Klavier, and Mark labels. In summers, Burns is
associated with the Eastern Music Festival and the Bands of America Summer Symposium. He is
also an active composer with many of his pieces being published by BOCAL Music and frequently
performed. His mentors include William Winstead, Sherman Walt, Leonard Sharrow, and Colin
Hemmingsen. He is archivist for the International Double Reed Society and was co-host for the
IDRS 2003 Conference in Greensboro, NC. Burns is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
Carol Lowe is a DMA student in Bassoon Performance at UNCG, and holds degrees from the
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of Wisconsin at
Madison. She is active as a performer throughout the Southeast, having performed as a soloist
with the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Augusta and Greenville Symphony Orchestras, and the
Brevard Chamber Orchestra. In addition to her position as Principal Bassoon with the South
Carolina Philharmonic, Ms. Lowe freelances with numerous orchestras including the Atlanta,
Charlotte, and Charleston Symphony Orchestras. In 1997 Carol made her Carnegie Hall debut
while on tour with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and recorded Mahler's Sixth Symphony with
maestro Yoel Levi. Ms. Lowe joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina as bassoon
instructor in 1996. In addition to her teaching and orchestral playing, Carol enjoys playing
chamber music and has performed recitals with Charles Wadsworth and Joseph Robinson. She
is currently a member of the Mountain Chamber Players, Quintet Carolina, and Carolina
Camerata.
Lynn Huntzinger Beck is a member of the Greensboro and Winston-Salem Symphonies, and
teaches music theory at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She performs as hornist with the
Cascade Wind Quintet and is featured as a chamber musician on recordings distributed by
Equilibrium, Centaur, and Cambria. Formerly Principal Horn with the Nevada Symphony, she
served as Horn Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for twelve years prior to moving
to North Carolina. As a member of the Sierra Wind Quintet, she toured extensively and was
involved with many commission and recording projects. Also active as a commercial musician in
Las Vegas, Ms. Beck traveled internationally with the Frank Sinatra Orchestra. She holds
performance and education degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of
Southern California.
Bama Lutes Deal, horn, (B.A., M.M., and Ph.D., Florida State University) was formerly an
orchestral and chamber musician, appearing with such ensembles as the Florida Philharmonic
Orchestra, Miami City Ballet, Palm Beach Opera, Jacksonville Symphony, Greater Palm Beach
Symphony, South Florida Symphony, Miami Chamber Orchestra, Jupiter Theater, Ballet Florida,
Brass Alive! brass quintet, and Trio Cantabile (violin, horn, piano). She studied horn with Reid
Poole, David Glaser (Cleveland Orchestra), David Gray (London Symphony Orchestra), and
William Capps (FSU), and has also performed in master classes for acclaimed soloist Barry
Tuckwell. Her musicological specialization is late-eighteenth and early nineteenth-century
German theater music in Vienna and Prague. Deal maintained a horn studio at Palm Beach
Atlantic College and Florida Atlantic University, and has taught music history survey courses at
Florida State University and music appreciation at Wake Forest University. She currently serves
as adjunct lecturer of music history at the UNCG School of Music.
Mary Pritchett Boudreault is currently pursuing a MM in Horn Performance from the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the principal horn of the UNCG Symphony Orchestra
and Co-Director of the UNCG Horn Ensemble. Mary directs the Community Music School and is
on the instrumental faculty at Moore Music Company. She maintains an active performance
schedule with Triad Brass and regional symphonies throughout the state.
Ms. Kathleen K. Hopper, originally from Louisville, KY, is a 2004 graduate of UNCG with a MM
in Performance. She also earned a BA in Music from Murray State University at Murray, KY. Ms.
Hopper is a current member of UNCG’s Wind Ensemble, Horn Ensemble, and has performed with
Market Street Brass and Bel Canto. Currently she is working towards a DMA in Horn
Performance at UNCG.
Paul Quast began playing the double bass at the age of 12 with his mother. He is currently
studying with Craig Brown and pursuing a Bachelor of Music from The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. Paul plays in the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and has attended
both Eastern Music Festival and The Brevard Music Center. Paul enjoys spending time with his
family and dog, Sam.
Dr. Kevin M. Geraldi began his appointment as Associate Director of Bands in fall 2005. He
conducts the Symphonic Band, teaches courses in undergraduate conducting, and directs the
Wind Ensemble chamber music program. He completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in
instrumental conducting at the University of Michigan where he received a full fellowship to study
with Michael Haithcock. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, he served as Director of Bands at
Lander University in Greenwood, S.C.
Dr. Geraldi holds a Master of Music degree in conducting from the University of Michigan, where
he studied with H. Robert Reynolds. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from
Illinois Wesleyan University, where he studied conducting with Steven Eggleston. From 1996-
1998, he was director of bands for the Westchester Public Schools in Westchester, IL, where his
ensembles received top honors. Dr. Geraldi has served as assistant conductor of the Central
Illinois and Michigan Youth Symphonies and as a guest conductor he has conducted honors
groups in Michigan, South Carolina, and Connecticut. He maintains an active schedule as a
clinician throughout the country. As a member of the Franklin Park Brass Quintet,
Dr. Geraldi has studied conducting privately and in seminars with teachers including Kenneth
Kiesler, Gustav Meier, Pierre Boulez, and Frederick Fennell. Most recently, he was a participant
in the Conductor’s Institute of South Carolina’s opera conducting workshop at the Spoleto
Festival, USA. Dr. Geraldi was named as the 2001-2002 recipient of the Thelma A. Robinson
Award, an award presented every two years by the Conductors Guild and the National Federation
of Music Clubs.