UNCG New Music Festival
Mark Engebretson – Director
Alejandro Rutty – Associate Director
Anna Meadors, Eric Pazdziora – Assistants
Davis Brooks, violin
Friday, September 27, 2013
3:00 pm
Organ Hall, Music Building
Program
Caprice No. 1 (5:00) Mark O’Connor
(b. 1961)
Blues/Forms (1972, 8:00) Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
I. Plain Blues (1932-2004)
II. Just Blues
III. Jettin’ Blue/s
The Stream Flows (1990, 10:00) Bright Sheng
(b. 1955)
Lines from Poetry (1992, 22:00) Ronald Caltabiano
I. Moderato (Robert Browning) (b. 1959)
II. Allegro flessibile (Jim Barnes
III. Andante (C. P. Cavafy)
IV. Andante moderato (Walt Whitman)
pause
V. Adagio molto (Sandro Penna)
VI. Andante moderato (e. e. cummings)
pause
VII. Adagio molto (W. H. Auden)
VIII. Presto (John Ashbery), Prestissimo (Margaret Atwood)
IX. Andante (Thomas Gray), Adagio (Thomas Gray)
Ride (2012, 6:00) Balee Pongklad
(b. 1979)
The 2014 New Music Festival was made possible by the E.T. Cone Foundation
Performer
Davis Brooks comes from a diverse musical background as soloist, pedagogue,
orchestral musician, studio musician, concertmaster on Broadway, conductor, and
chamber musician. His teaching experience has included faculty appointments at
Baylor University, Wayne State University, the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire,
and Bucknell University. He is currently Professor of Violin at Butler University in
Indianapolis.
In addition to his present position as Associate Concertmaster of the Indianapolis
Chamber Orchestra, Dr. Brooks was a member of the Mostly Mozart Orchestra at
Lincoln Center for ten years, and for nineteen years, the New York Chamber
Symphony, which produced over 20 critically acclaimed recordings during his tenure
with them. Dr. Brooks has been concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of New
England, the Harrisburg Symphony, and the Waco Symphony. He performs
frequently with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and is concertmaster of the
Fishers Chamber Players. In addition, he is active in the many recording studios in
the Indianapolis area and has recently released two solo cds, one of music for violin
and electronic media entitled Violin and Electronics and one of music by composer
C.P.First. Both are available on iTunes and eMusic.
At Yale University, where he received a master's degree in violin performance, Dr.
Brooks studied with Broadus Erle and Syoko Aki. His doctorate, also in violin
performance, is from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Other
important teachers with whom he has worked include Joyce Robbins, George
Neikrug, Russell Hatz and Raymond Page; he has studied chamber music with Julius
Levine, Josef Gingold, Aldo Parisot, and members of the Tokyo, Alard and Guarneri
Quartets.
Chamber music is his first love. He is currently a member of the Indianapolis
Chamber Players, and has been a member of the Commonwealth and Landolfi
Quartets, as well as the Meridian and Essex Piano Trios. In addition, Dr. Brooks'
special interests include both the performance of music by contemporary composers
and performance on original instruments, particularly the music of the Baroque
period. He is a founding member of both the Chicago 21st Century Music Ensemble
and the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra. Other recordings include, Reflection on a
Hymn of Thanksgiving by Frank Felice, With every Leaf a Miracle by Mark Schultz,
and Manunya by Frank Glover. Please visit my web site at davisbrooksviolin.com for
more details
The UNCG New Music Festival would like to thank our
generous sponsors
