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Luigi Silva The UNCG School of Music has been recognized for years as one of the elite music institutions in the United States. Fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music since 1938, the School offers the only comprehensive music program from undergraduate through doctoral study in both performance and music education in North Carolina. From a total population of approximately 14,000 university students, the UNCG School of Music serves nearly 600 music majors with a full-time faculty and staff of more than sixty. As such, the UNCG School of Music ranks among the largest Schools of Music in the South. The UNCG School of Music now occupies a new 26 million dollar music building which is among the finest music facilities in the nation. In fact, the new music building is the second-largest academic building on the UNCG Campus. A large music library with state-of-the-art playback, study and research facilities houses all music reference materials. Greatly expanded classroom, studio, practice room, and rehearsal hall spaces are key components of the new structure. Two new recital halls, a large computer lab, a psychoacoustics lab, electronic music labs, and recording studio space are additional features of the new facility. In addition, an enclosed multi-level parking deck is adjacent to the new music building to serve students, faculty and concert patrons. Living in the artistically thriving Greensboro—Winston-Salem—High Point “Triad” area, students enjoy regular opportunities to attend and perform in concerts sponsored by such organizations as the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the Greensboro Opera Company, and the Eastern Music Festival. In addition, UNCG students interact first-hand with some of the world’s major artists who frequently schedule informal discussions, open rehearsals, and master classes at UNCG. Costs of attending public universities in North Carolina, both for in-state and out-of- state students, represent a truly exceptional value in higher education. For information regarding music as a major or minor field of study, please write: Dr. John J. Deal, Dean UNCG School of Music P.O. Box 26167 Greensboro, North Carolina 27402-6167 (336) 334-5789 On the Web: www.uncg.edu/mus/ centennial celebration March 5 — 7, 2004 On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students in the School of Music at UNCG, welcome to the first of what we anticipate will be a long series of Celebrations devoted to the violoncello and, specifically, those cellists represented in the UNCG Cello Music Collection housed in the Walter Clinton Jackson Library Special Collections. For years, the Collection has served the research needs of cellists all over the world, housing the materials of Rudolf Matz, Elizabeth Cowling, Luigi Silva, Maurice Eisenberg, and Jànos Scholz. Most recently, the complete collection of Fritz Magg was generously donated to the collection, and just this year, Bernard Greenhouse announced that he, too, was donating his archives to the Collection! This is truly the largest collection of its kind in the world. It is only fitting that this first Celebration be devoted to the cellist whose materials were acquired by the Friends of the Library to initiate the Collection in 1964: Luigi Silva. We are pleased and honored that so many of Professor Silva’s students have agreed to participate in this event, and you will very much enjoy their contributions as teachers and performers during the sessions scheduled over the next few days. We are hopeful that you will have some time to peruse this impressive collection of materials and that you will enjoy your visit to the School of Music. We believe that our facilities are especially conducive to these kinds of events, providing a spacious and pleasing environment for the study and performance of music of all types. I am confident that you will find musical richness and collegial camaraderie during this week that will enrich you for the months ahead. Best regards, John J. Deal, PhD Dean b Recital Program I: Opening Gala Friday, March 5, 2004 8:00 pm West Market Street United Methodist Church Ricercar No.3 in D Major Andrea Gabrieli Ricercar No.4 in E Major (1532-1585) Eckhart Richter, cello Sonata in G for Violoncello and Basso Continuo Giovanni Gabrieli Grave (c. 1555-1612) (Tempo di Allemanda) Largo Presto Eckhart Richter, cello Benjamin Silva, guitar Concerto for Cello in D Major Franz Joseph Haydn Allegro moderato (1732-1809) Adagio Allegro Brooks Whitehouse, cello (cadenza by Silva) Gate City Camerata Intermission Sonata for Violin in A Major Gabriel Fauré Allegro (1845-1924) Adagio Presto Barbara Stein Mallow, cello Ināra Zandmane, piano Fandango from Guitar Quintet IV, G. 448 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Benjamin Silva, guitar Tango en Skai for strings and guitar Roland Dyens (b. 1955) Benjamin Silva, guitar Gate City Camerata Variazioni di Bravura “Moses Variations” Nicolò Paganini (1782-1840) arr. Luigi Silva Timothy Eddy, cello Gilbert Kalish, piano Please join us for a reception following the performance, located in the Fellowship Hall. Recital Program II: Silva Celebration Matinee Saturday, March 6, 2004 2:00 pm Recital Hall, School of Music Songs and Dances for Cello and Piano Nicolay Tcherepnin (1873-1945) Brooks Whitehouse, cello Andrew Harley, piano Bachinas Brasilerias, No. 1 Heitor Villa-Lobos Introduction (Embolada) (1887-1959) Preludio (Modinha) Fugue (Conversa) Jonathan Lewis, Northwestern University Wei Yu, Northwestern University Michael Wiseman, Dusan Vukajlovic, Georgia State University Gal Nyska, Rice University Alan Toda-Ambaras, Brian Hodges, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Anna Wittstruck, Carolina Day School Fantasia Concertante for Fifteen Cellos Heitor Villa-Lobos (First Performance in North America in over 50 years!) The Celebration Cello Orchestra Dr. Jonathan Kramer, Director Cello I Bonnie Thron (Principal, NC Symphony) Bongshin Ko (California State University, Fullerton) Alexander Kramer (former Assistant Principal, Charlotte Symphony) Cello II Fred Raimi (Ciompi Quartet) · Brent Wissick (UNC Chapel Hill) Allen Black (Principal, Charlotte Symphony) Cello III Beth Vandenborgh (Principal, Greensboro Symphony) · Leonid Zilper (NC Symphony) Timothy Holley (NC Central University) Cello IV Michael Matthews (Greensboro Symphony) · Nathan Leyland (Carolina Ballet) Lisa Shaunessy (NC Symphony) Cello V Charles Forbes (former Principal, American Symphony Orchestra) Jonathan Chenoweth (University of Northern Iowa) Anne Sellitti (Winston-Salem Symphony) Recital Program III: Krosnick & Kalish in Recital Saturday, March 6, 2004 8:00 pm Recital Hall, School of Music Joel Krosnick, cello Gilbert Kalish, piano Sonata for Piano and Cello, in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven Adagio sostenuto — Allegro — Adagio — Presto (1770-1826) Rondo: Allegro vivace Preludio Goffredo Petrassi Written for Luigi Silva (1904-2003) Aria e Finale Kroslish Sonata Ralph Shapey Written for Krosnick and Kalish (1921-2002) Maestoso Delicato Maestoso Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99 Johannes Brahms Allegro vivace (1833-1897) Adagio affetuoso Allegro passionato — Trio Allegro molto b Please join us for a reception following the performance. Recital Program IV: WorksTranscribed by Luigi Silva Sunday, March 7, 2004 1:30 pm Recital Hall, School of Music Ciacconna Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692) Jonathan Kramer, cello Andrew Harley, piano Adagio from Goldberg Variations Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Barbara Stein Mallow, cello Andrew Harley, piano Intermezzo Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Charles Forbes, cello Andrew Harley, piano Sonata in C Major, G. 17 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Fred Raimi, cello Jane Hawkins, piano Three Sonatas for Guitar Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Benjamin Silva, guitar Caprice No.14 in G Major, Op.1 “The Marching Caprice” Nicolò Paganini Caprice No.13 in B Major, Op.1 “The Laughing Caprice” (1782-1840) Charles Wendt Roumanian Folk Dances Béla Bartók (1881-1945) La Fliatrice (Spinning Song) Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Joel Krosnick, cello Andrew Harley, piano Styra Avins was educated in New York City. Trained from early childhood as a pianist, she became interested in the cello while a student at the High School of Music and Art, and began a serious study of the instrument with Luigi Silva while in her last year of high school. After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies from the City College of the City of New York while studying cello privately with Silva, she continued her studies with him at the Juilliard School, then earned a Masters Degree at the Manhattan School of Music with David Wells. In 1965 she had the opportunity to study intermittently but intensively with Rudolf Matz during a year spent in Switzerland. Ms. Avins has served as principal cellist of the Seoul Symphony in Korea, was a member of the New York City Opera Orchestra, and of the American Symphony Orchestra (under Leopold Stokowsky), and performed for many years with Young Audiences of New York. She taught cello at the United Nations School in New York for ten years. She is currently a member of the Queens Symphony in New York, and Visiting Faculty at the Chamber Music Conference of the East. Ms. Avins is also a musicologist, currently teaching music history in the Graduate School at Drew University. She has published more than a dozen articles in magazines and professional journals, and presented talks on three continents, from Lincoln Center to Melbourne, Australia. Her book, Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters , published by Oxford University Press, is both a biography and the first English language collection of Brahms's letters. Alan Black is in his eighteenth season as Principal Cellist with the Charlotte Symphony, and eighth season as Founder and Artistic Director of Chamber Music at St. Peter's. His performance experience covers the complete spectrum of music; from classical music including chamber music, solo recitals, and concertos with the Charlotte Symphony, to appearing on stage as a soloist with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Van Cliburn Gold Medal pianist Jon Nakamatsu, and fiddler Mark O’Connor. Alan graduated in 1980 from UCLA, and received a Masters Degree from Indiana University in 1983, where he was a teaching assistant to Fritz Magg. Other teachers include former Principal Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Ronald Leonard, Jeffrey Solow, Gary Hoffman, and most recently, David Hardy, Principal Cellist of the National Symphony in Washington D.C. He has also appeared in masterclasses with such notable musicians as Leonard Bernstein, James Buswell, Bernard Greenhouse, and Janos Starker. Elizabeth Beilman, a native of Wichita, Kansas, joined the North Carolina Symphony in 1988 and now serves as Assistant Principal Cello. Since coming to Raleigh, she has performed in numerous recitals and ensembles in N.C. and has appeared as soloist with the North Carolina Symphony. Before her arrival in N.C., Ms, Beilman was Artist-in Residence for two years at the Banff Centre for the Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada. During that time, she toured throughout Canada, performed with Felix Galamir and with Menachem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio, and was featured at the Shawnigan Lake Festival in British Colombia. Ms. Beilman is a founding member of the Chamber music ensemble, AURORA MUSICALIS, an ensemble whose premiere recording Echoes of America, received excellent reviews, including a special notice in the international publication, Fanfare. This disc, whose title piece was dedicated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Robert Ward to AURORA MUSICALIS, is availaable on the Albany label. Ms. Beilman holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music Performance from the Indiana University School of Music. While at I.U., she held a faculty position of Associate Instructor and served as Assistant to Fritz Magg, Distinguished Professor of Music. Other cello teachers were Anner Bylsma, Aldo Parisot and Paul Tortelier. Her extensive background in chamber music includes studies with Rostislav Dubinsky, Josef Gingold and Peter Oundjian. Ms. Beilman performs on a Venetian cello made in 1921 by Giulio Degani. Jonathan Chenoweth received his training at the Oberlin Conservatory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook where his principal teachers were Richard Kapuscinski and Timothy Eddy. Since 1991 he has taught cello and coached chamber music at the University of Northern Iowa and served as principal for the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony. Timothy Eddy has earned distinction as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, chamber musician, recording artist, and as a winner in numerous national and international competitions. In June of 1975, Mr. Eddy received top honors at the Gaspar Cassado International Violoncello Competition, held in Florence, Italy. He has also won prizes in the Dealey Contest (Dallas), the Denver Symphony Guild Competition, the North Carolina Symphony Contest, and the New York Violoncello Society competition. In addition to his numerous solo and chamber recitals throughout the U.S. he has appeared as concerto soloist with many U.S. orchestras, including the Dallas, Denver, Stamford, Jacksonville, and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Eddy received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with honors from the Manhattan School of Music, where he was a scholarship student of Bernard Greenhouse. His earlier training was with Luigi Silva, at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine, and in the preparatory departments of Peabody, Mannes, and Juilliard. He spent several summers as a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival and has toured the U.S. frequently with the “Music From Marlboro” concert series. Recently, Mr. Eddy has spent his summers with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and the Steans Institute. Timothy Eddy presently teaches cello at the Juilliard School and the Mannes College and he is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He appears regularly in duo recital with pianist Gilbert Kalish and he is the solo cellist of the Bach Aria Group. As cellist of the Orion String Quartet (with Daniel and Todd Phillips, violins, and Steven Tenenbom, viola), he is in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at the Mannes College of Music. With the Orion Quartet, he has appeared in major musical centers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including festivals in Lockenhaus (Austria); Spoleto (Italy); New York (“Mostly Mozart”); Charleston, SC; Mondsee (Austria); Turku (Finland); and Vancouver (Canada). Mr. Eddy has recorded for Columbia Records, Angel, Vanguard, Nonesuch, C.R.I., New World, Vox, Musical Heritage, Delos, Arabesque, and Sony Classical. Timothy Eddy is highly sought-after as a teacher, and his former pupils have come from England, France, Germany, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, and Korea as well as the U.S. and Canada, and they have won positions in major orchestras and universities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Far East; many have also achieved distinction in their careers as chamber musicians and soloists. Mr. Eddy was a member of the faculty of the biennial Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall in 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2001. Margery Enix is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Chapman University. A student of Luigi Silva, she earned a B.M. degree in cello performance from Yale University. She holds. M.M. and Ph.D degrees from Indiana University. A recipient of a Ford Foundation research grant, she is author of more than thirty articles on cello playing. She translated Silva's three-volume History of Left Hand Cello Technique. Her book, Rudolf Matz: Cellist, Teacher, Composer, documents, in part, the productive relationship between Matz and Silva. Charles Forbes is a cellist, music director, teacher, inventor, and chamber music coach with degrees from Harvard College and Manhattan School of Music. His principal cello teachers were Maurice Eisenberg and Bernard Greenhouse. He also studied cello with Luigi Silva and Pablo Casals, chamber music with Leonard Shure, and conducting with Jonel Perlea. His orchestral experience includes playing principal cello with the American Symphony (under Stokowski), the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Princeton Chamber Orchestra, the Springfield, MA Symphony, and the Vermont Symphony. Mr. Forbes has given four solo recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, and played for 30 years with the New York Camerata, a chamber group with whom he toured widely and recorded several discs. The group commissioned many works, including George Crumb’s Voice of the Whale, and was the resident ensemble with the New York-based Affiliate Artists in Wisconsin and Alabama for four seasons. He has also played with the Windsor String Quartet in Vermont, the Network for New Music, Relache and the Philadelphia Camerata in Philadelphia, and, currently, the Midsummer and Chancellor String Quartets. Charles Forbes has been on the faculties of Smith, Amherst and Mount Holyoke Colleges, Exeter Academy, the Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Delaware. He has been music director of the Princeton Chamber Music Play Week since it was founded 13 years ago. Mr. Forbes currently lives in Langhorne, PA, plays with Orchestra 2001 and the Bucks County Symphony (principal), and teaches privately and at the Settlement Music School. Published author of Cello Scales and Arpeggios, published by ECS Publishing, Mr. Forbes has compiled a comprehensive addition to the scale book literature that is unique in that it features modal scales and seventh chord arpeggios. Mr. Forbes is also the inventor of the Forbes Music Scroller, a clever solution for eliminating the problem of page turns. Martha Gerschefski received the Performance Diploma from the Juilliard School of Music with Luigi Silva and Isidore Cohen, then studied privately in Europe with Andre Navarra, Edward Mattos, and Nadia Boulanger and earned the Diploma of Merit from the Accadmia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. She has toured Europe performing recitals under the State Department Cultural Presentations Abroad program and has presented solo concert tours in the United States and Central America. Ms. Gerschefski was the first woman selected by Leopold Stokowski for the American Symphony Orchestra, where she held the position of associate principal cello, and has been principal cellist with the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra, and the Atlanta Ballet. She has presented classes and workshops throughout the USA, Canada, and Central and South America. Honors for Ms. Gerschefski include the Koussevitzsky Prize and the Martha Baird Rockefeller grant for study abroad. She was recently selected as the American String Teachers' Association Georgia Educator of the Year and received the Georgia State University College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award for 1999-2000. Ms. Gerschefski is co-founder of the Georgia Academy of Music, began the string quartet program at The Westminster Schools of Atlanta, founded the University Cello Choir and currently serves on the faculty of the Georgia State University School of Music. She and her husband, Clint Schaum, reside in Georgia during the winter and Maine during the summer. Jane Hawkins is from South Wales and studied both piano and cello at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has been a professor of music at Duke University since 1985. She has appeared with the Dorian Wind Quintet, the Ciompi Quartet, the Chicago Symphony Chamber players, and the American Chamber players. Recent collaborators include James Buswell, Steven Ansell, Ron Leonard, and Branford Marsalis. Fred Raimi and Jane Hawkins have been married since 1975. Their CD of music by Paul Schoenfield, Mark Kuss, and Max Raimi has just been released by Gasparo Records. Timothy Holley is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace College and The University of Michigan, where he studied, respectively, with Regina Mushabac, Jerome Jelinek, Jeffrey Solow and Erling Bløndal Bengtsson. He was a member of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra for twelve years and was also affiliated with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra during that time. He has served as Assistant Professor of Music at North Carolina Central University since 1996, and has also taught at the Duke University String School. He has appeared as a guest artist with the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University, the Mallarmé Chamber Players, and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. Hans Jorgen Jensen, professor of cello at Northwestern University, is also a faculty member of the Meadowmount School of Music. He has soloed with the Copenhagen Symphony, Danish Radio Orchestra, Irish Radio Orchestra, and Basel Symphony Orchestra. Professor Jensen was the winner of the Jacob Gades Prize, the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs Grant for Musicians, the Copenhagen Music Critics Prize of Honor, and the Artist International Competition in New York. He was named outstanding Studio Teacher of the Year by Illinois chapter, American String Teachers Association and was the recipient of the U.S. Presidential Scholar Teacher Recognition Award for the U.S. Department of Education. His students have won prizes in numerous national and international competitions. Professor Jensen studied at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins, and studied privately and performed in master classes with Pierre Fournier. Professor Jensen holds a Soloist Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music, Denmark. Gilbert Kalish leads a musical life of unusual variety and breadth. His profound influence on the musical community as educator, and as pianist in myriad performances and recordings, has established him as a major figure in American music making. A native New Yorker and graduate of Columbia College, Mr. Kalish studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabella Vengerova. He has been the pianist of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players since 1969 and was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble; a group devoted to new music that flourished during the 1960's and 70's. He is a frequent guest artist with many of the world's most distinguished chamber ensembles. His thirty-year partnership with the great mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani was universally recognized as one of the most remarkable artistic collaborations of our time. He maintains long-standing duos with the cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, and he appears frequently with soprano Dawn Upshaw. As educator he is Leading Professor and Head of Performance Activities at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. From 1968-1997 he was a faculty member of the Tanglewood Music Center and served as the "Chairman of the Faculty" at Tanglewood from 1985-1997. He often serves as guest faculty at distinguished music institutions such as the Banff Centre and the Steans Institute at Ravinia, and is renowned for his master class presentations. Mr. Kalish's discography of some 100 recordings encompasses classical repertory, 20th Century masterworks and new compositions. Of special note are his solo recordings of Charles Ives' Concord Sonata and Sonatas of Joseph Haydn, an immense discography of vocal music with Jan DeGaetani and landmarks of the 20th Century by composers such as Carter, Crumb, Shapey and Schoenberg. In 1995 he was presented with the Paul Fromm Award by the University of Chicago Music Department for distinguished service to the music of our time. Praised by critics as the “mastery of the instrument” with “great warmth and beauty” cellist Bongshin Ko has appeared worldwide at music festivals including Schleswig-Holstein, Kronberg, American Cello Congress and Seoul International collaborating with Sir Georg Solti, M. Rostropovich, Gunter Schuller and others. Her solo engagements include invitations to perform with Vienna Sinfonietta, German Chamber Orchestra, Television- Radio Symphony of Moscow, Korean Broadcasting Symphony to name a few. Ms. Ko is currently the Cello Professor at California State University, Fullerton and returns to various summer festivals throughout the globe. Jonathan C. Kramer is Associate Director of the Music Department at North Carolina State University and Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology at Duke University. Dr. Kramer holds advanced degrees from Duke and the Graduate School of the Union Institute where he completed a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and Performance Studies in 1994 with a dissertation on traditional Korean music. As a cellist, he has performed as principal of the Tucson Symphony and as a member of the San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras and the North Carolina Symphony. Among his teachers are Aldo Parisot,Gordon Epperson, Raya Garbousova, David Wells, Madeline Foley, and Maurice Gendron. He has performed extensively as recitalist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. as well as in Russia, India, Korea, Canada, Austria, Bulgaria, U. K. and Italy and has been awarded Senior Fulbright Fellowships at Banaras-Hindu University in India and at Chosun University in Kwangju, South Korea. He has performed with The Mostly Modern series of San Francisco, Mallarme Chamber Players, Duke University Encounters Series, the Piccolo Spoletto Festival, Raleigh Chamber Music Guild; and presented solo concertos with the Raleigh Symphony, Raleigh Civic Symphony, Durham Symphony, Orchestra of Virginia Beach, and the North Carolina Symphony. He has recorded for Albany Records, and Soundings of the Planet Studios. He is on the teaching faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Institute and frequently accompanies Rumi translator Coleman Barks in poetry readings. Dr. Kramer has lectured on Music and Aesthetics in the United States the U. K., Korea, and recently at the Ramakrishna Mission in Calcutta, India; and has received critical commendation for his lectures and commentaries. He served as moderator of the Pedagogy Panel at the American Cello Congress this past summer, and recently presented An Homage to Pau Casals at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London in September with cellists Bernard Greenhouse and Selma Gokcen.
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Title | 2004-03-05 Silva Celebration [recital program] |
Date | 2004 |
Creator | University of North Carolina at Greensboro. School of Music, Theatre and Dance |
Subject headings | University of North Carolina at Greensboro. School of Music, Theatre and Dance;University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | Spring 2004 programs for recitals by students in the UNCG School of Music. |
Type | Text |
Original format | programs |
Original publisher | Greensboro N.C.: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
Source collection | UA9.2 School of Music Performances -- Programs and Recordings, 1917-2007 |
Series/grouping | 1: Programs |
Finding aid link | https://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=608 |
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Object ID | UA009.002.BD.2004SP.999 |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 |
Full Text | Luigi Silva The UNCG School of Music has been recognized for years as one of the elite music institutions in the United States. Fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music since 1938, the School offers the only comprehensive music program from undergraduate through doctoral study in both performance and music education in North Carolina. From a total population of approximately 14,000 university students, the UNCG School of Music serves nearly 600 music majors with a full-time faculty and staff of more than sixty. As such, the UNCG School of Music ranks among the largest Schools of Music in the South. The UNCG School of Music now occupies a new 26 million dollar music building which is among the finest music facilities in the nation. In fact, the new music building is the second-largest academic building on the UNCG Campus. A large music library with state-of-the-art playback, study and research facilities houses all music reference materials. Greatly expanded classroom, studio, practice room, and rehearsal hall spaces are key components of the new structure. Two new recital halls, a large computer lab, a psychoacoustics lab, electronic music labs, and recording studio space are additional features of the new facility. In addition, an enclosed multi-level parking deck is adjacent to the new music building to serve students, faculty and concert patrons. Living in the artistically thriving Greensboro—Winston-Salem—High Point “Triad” area, students enjoy regular opportunities to attend and perform in concerts sponsored by such organizations as the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the Greensboro Opera Company, and the Eastern Music Festival. In addition, UNCG students interact first-hand with some of the world’s major artists who frequently schedule informal discussions, open rehearsals, and master classes at UNCG. Costs of attending public universities in North Carolina, both for in-state and out-of- state students, represent a truly exceptional value in higher education. For information regarding music as a major or minor field of study, please write: Dr. John J. Deal, Dean UNCG School of Music P.O. Box 26167 Greensboro, North Carolina 27402-6167 (336) 334-5789 On the Web: www.uncg.edu/mus/ centennial celebration March 5 — 7, 2004 On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students in the School of Music at UNCG, welcome to the first of what we anticipate will be a long series of Celebrations devoted to the violoncello and, specifically, those cellists represented in the UNCG Cello Music Collection housed in the Walter Clinton Jackson Library Special Collections. For years, the Collection has served the research needs of cellists all over the world, housing the materials of Rudolf Matz, Elizabeth Cowling, Luigi Silva, Maurice Eisenberg, and Jànos Scholz. Most recently, the complete collection of Fritz Magg was generously donated to the collection, and just this year, Bernard Greenhouse announced that he, too, was donating his archives to the Collection! This is truly the largest collection of its kind in the world. It is only fitting that this first Celebration be devoted to the cellist whose materials were acquired by the Friends of the Library to initiate the Collection in 1964: Luigi Silva. We are pleased and honored that so many of Professor Silva’s students have agreed to participate in this event, and you will very much enjoy their contributions as teachers and performers during the sessions scheduled over the next few days. We are hopeful that you will have some time to peruse this impressive collection of materials and that you will enjoy your visit to the School of Music. We believe that our facilities are especially conducive to these kinds of events, providing a spacious and pleasing environment for the study and performance of music of all types. I am confident that you will find musical richness and collegial camaraderie during this week that will enrich you for the months ahead. Best regards, John J. Deal, PhD Dean b Recital Program I: Opening Gala Friday, March 5, 2004 8:00 pm West Market Street United Methodist Church Ricercar No.3 in D Major Andrea Gabrieli Ricercar No.4 in E Major (1532-1585) Eckhart Richter, cello Sonata in G for Violoncello and Basso Continuo Giovanni Gabrieli Grave (c. 1555-1612) (Tempo di Allemanda) Largo Presto Eckhart Richter, cello Benjamin Silva, guitar Concerto for Cello in D Major Franz Joseph Haydn Allegro moderato (1732-1809) Adagio Allegro Brooks Whitehouse, cello (cadenza by Silva) Gate City Camerata Intermission Sonata for Violin in A Major Gabriel Fauré Allegro (1845-1924) Adagio Presto Barbara Stein Mallow, cello Ināra Zandmane, piano Fandango from Guitar Quintet IV, G. 448 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Benjamin Silva, guitar Tango en Skai for strings and guitar Roland Dyens (b. 1955) Benjamin Silva, guitar Gate City Camerata Variazioni di Bravura “Moses Variations” Nicolò Paganini (1782-1840) arr. Luigi Silva Timothy Eddy, cello Gilbert Kalish, piano Please join us for a reception following the performance, located in the Fellowship Hall. Recital Program II: Silva Celebration Matinee Saturday, March 6, 2004 2:00 pm Recital Hall, School of Music Songs and Dances for Cello and Piano Nicolay Tcherepnin (1873-1945) Brooks Whitehouse, cello Andrew Harley, piano Bachinas Brasilerias, No. 1 Heitor Villa-Lobos Introduction (Embolada) (1887-1959) Preludio (Modinha) Fugue (Conversa) Jonathan Lewis, Northwestern University Wei Yu, Northwestern University Michael Wiseman, Dusan Vukajlovic, Georgia State University Gal Nyska, Rice University Alan Toda-Ambaras, Brian Hodges, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Anna Wittstruck, Carolina Day School Fantasia Concertante for Fifteen Cellos Heitor Villa-Lobos (First Performance in North America in over 50 years!) The Celebration Cello Orchestra Dr. Jonathan Kramer, Director Cello I Bonnie Thron (Principal, NC Symphony) Bongshin Ko (California State University, Fullerton) Alexander Kramer (former Assistant Principal, Charlotte Symphony) Cello II Fred Raimi (Ciompi Quartet) · Brent Wissick (UNC Chapel Hill) Allen Black (Principal, Charlotte Symphony) Cello III Beth Vandenborgh (Principal, Greensboro Symphony) · Leonid Zilper (NC Symphony) Timothy Holley (NC Central University) Cello IV Michael Matthews (Greensboro Symphony) · Nathan Leyland (Carolina Ballet) Lisa Shaunessy (NC Symphony) Cello V Charles Forbes (former Principal, American Symphony Orchestra) Jonathan Chenoweth (University of Northern Iowa) Anne Sellitti (Winston-Salem Symphony) Recital Program III: Krosnick & Kalish in Recital Saturday, March 6, 2004 8:00 pm Recital Hall, School of Music Joel Krosnick, cello Gilbert Kalish, piano Sonata for Piano and Cello, in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven Adagio sostenuto — Allegro — Adagio — Presto (1770-1826) Rondo: Allegro vivace Preludio Goffredo Petrassi Written for Luigi Silva (1904-2003) Aria e Finale Kroslish Sonata Ralph Shapey Written for Krosnick and Kalish (1921-2002) Maestoso Delicato Maestoso Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 99 Johannes Brahms Allegro vivace (1833-1897) Adagio affetuoso Allegro passionato — Trio Allegro molto b Please join us for a reception following the performance. Recital Program IV: WorksTranscribed by Luigi Silva Sunday, March 7, 2004 1:30 pm Recital Hall, School of Music Ciacconna Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692) Jonathan Kramer, cello Andrew Harley, piano Adagio from Goldberg Variations Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Barbara Stein Mallow, cello Andrew Harley, piano Intermezzo Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Charles Forbes, cello Andrew Harley, piano Sonata in C Major, G. 17 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Fred Raimi, cello Jane Hawkins, piano Three Sonatas for Guitar Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Benjamin Silva, guitar Caprice No.14 in G Major, Op.1 “The Marching Caprice” Nicolò Paganini Caprice No.13 in B Major, Op.1 “The Laughing Caprice” (1782-1840) Charles Wendt Roumanian Folk Dances Béla Bartók (1881-1945) La Fliatrice (Spinning Song) Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Joel Krosnick, cello Andrew Harley, piano Styra Avins was educated in New York City. Trained from early childhood as a pianist, she became interested in the cello while a student at the High School of Music and Art, and began a serious study of the instrument with Luigi Silva while in her last year of high school. After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies from the City College of the City of New York while studying cello privately with Silva, she continued her studies with him at the Juilliard School, then earned a Masters Degree at the Manhattan School of Music with David Wells. In 1965 she had the opportunity to study intermittently but intensively with Rudolf Matz during a year spent in Switzerland. Ms. Avins has served as principal cellist of the Seoul Symphony in Korea, was a member of the New York City Opera Orchestra, and of the American Symphony Orchestra (under Leopold Stokowsky), and performed for many years with Young Audiences of New York. She taught cello at the United Nations School in New York for ten years. She is currently a member of the Queens Symphony in New York, and Visiting Faculty at the Chamber Music Conference of the East. Ms. Avins is also a musicologist, currently teaching music history in the Graduate School at Drew University. She has published more than a dozen articles in magazines and professional journals, and presented talks on three continents, from Lincoln Center to Melbourne, Australia. Her book, Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters , published by Oxford University Press, is both a biography and the first English language collection of Brahms's letters. Alan Black is in his eighteenth season as Principal Cellist with the Charlotte Symphony, and eighth season as Founder and Artistic Director of Chamber Music at St. Peter's. His performance experience covers the complete spectrum of music; from classical music including chamber music, solo recitals, and concertos with the Charlotte Symphony, to appearing on stage as a soloist with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Van Cliburn Gold Medal pianist Jon Nakamatsu, and fiddler Mark O’Connor. Alan graduated in 1980 from UCLA, and received a Masters Degree from Indiana University in 1983, where he was a teaching assistant to Fritz Magg. Other teachers include former Principal Cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Ronald Leonard, Jeffrey Solow, Gary Hoffman, and most recently, David Hardy, Principal Cellist of the National Symphony in Washington D.C. He has also appeared in masterclasses with such notable musicians as Leonard Bernstein, James Buswell, Bernard Greenhouse, and Janos Starker. Elizabeth Beilman, a native of Wichita, Kansas, joined the North Carolina Symphony in 1988 and now serves as Assistant Principal Cello. Since coming to Raleigh, she has performed in numerous recitals and ensembles in N.C. and has appeared as soloist with the North Carolina Symphony. Before her arrival in N.C., Ms, Beilman was Artist-in Residence for two years at the Banff Centre for the Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada. During that time, she toured throughout Canada, performed with Felix Galamir and with Menachem Pressler of the Beaux Arts Trio, and was featured at the Shawnigan Lake Festival in British Colombia. Ms. Beilman is a founding member of the Chamber music ensemble, AURORA MUSICALIS, an ensemble whose premiere recording Echoes of America, received excellent reviews, including a special notice in the international publication, Fanfare. This disc, whose title piece was dedicated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Robert Ward to AURORA MUSICALIS, is availaable on the Albany label. Ms. Beilman holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music Performance from the Indiana University School of Music. While at I.U., she held a faculty position of Associate Instructor and served as Assistant to Fritz Magg, Distinguished Professor of Music. Other cello teachers were Anner Bylsma, Aldo Parisot and Paul Tortelier. Her extensive background in chamber music includes studies with Rostislav Dubinsky, Josef Gingold and Peter Oundjian. Ms. Beilman performs on a Venetian cello made in 1921 by Giulio Degani. Jonathan Chenoweth received his training at the Oberlin Conservatory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook where his principal teachers were Richard Kapuscinski and Timothy Eddy. Since 1991 he has taught cello and coached chamber music at the University of Northern Iowa and served as principal for the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony. Timothy Eddy has earned distinction as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra, chamber musician, recording artist, and as a winner in numerous national and international competitions. In June of 1975, Mr. Eddy received top honors at the Gaspar Cassado International Violoncello Competition, held in Florence, Italy. He has also won prizes in the Dealey Contest (Dallas), the Denver Symphony Guild Competition, the North Carolina Symphony Contest, and the New York Violoncello Society competition. In addition to his numerous solo and chamber recitals throughout the U.S. he has appeared as concerto soloist with many U.S. orchestras, including the Dallas, Denver, Stamford, Jacksonville, and North Carolina Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Eddy received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with honors from the Manhattan School of Music, where he was a scholarship student of Bernard Greenhouse. His earlier training was with Luigi Silva, at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine, and in the preparatory departments of Peabody, Mannes, and Juilliard. He spent several summers as a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival and has toured the U.S. frequently with the “Music From Marlboro” concert series. Recently, Mr. Eddy has spent his summers with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and the Steans Institute. Timothy Eddy presently teaches cello at the Juilliard School and the Mannes College and he is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He appears regularly in duo recital with pianist Gilbert Kalish and he is the solo cellist of the Bach Aria Group. As cellist of the Orion String Quartet (with Daniel and Todd Phillips, violins, and Steven Tenenbom, viola), he is in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at the Mannes College of Music. With the Orion Quartet, he has appeared in major musical centers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, including festivals in Lockenhaus (Austria); Spoleto (Italy); New York (“Mostly Mozart”); Charleston, SC; Mondsee (Austria); Turku (Finland); and Vancouver (Canada). Mr. Eddy has recorded for Columbia Records, Angel, Vanguard, Nonesuch, C.R.I., New World, Vox, Musical Heritage, Delos, Arabesque, and Sony Classical. Timothy Eddy is highly sought-after as a teacher, and his former pupils have come from England, France, Germany, Holland, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, and Korea as well as the U.S. and Canada, and they have won positions in major orchestras and universities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Far East; many have also achieved distinction in their careers as chamber musicians and soloists. Mr. Eddy was a member of the faculty of the biennial Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall in 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2001. Margery Enix is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Chapman University. A student of Luigi Silva, she earned a B.M. degree in cello performance from Yale University. She holds. M.M. and Ph.D degrees from Indiana University. A recipient of a Ford Foundation research grant, she is author of more than thirty articles on cello playing. She translated Silva's three-volume History of Left Hand Cello Technique. Her book, Rudolf Matz: Cellist, Teacher, Composer, documents, in part, the productive relationship between Matz and Silva. Charles Forbes is a cellist, music director, teacher, inventor, and chamber music coach with degrees from Harvard College and Manhattan School of Music. His principal cello teachers were Maurice Eisenberg and Bernard Greenhouse. He also studied cello with Luigi Silva and Pablo Casals, chamber music with Leonard Shure, and conducting with Jonel Perlea. His orchestral experience includes playing principal cello with the American Symphony (under Stokowski), the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Princeton Chamber Orchestra, the Springfield, MA Symphony, and the Vermont Symphony. Mr. Forbes has given four solo recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, and played for 30 years with the New York Camerata, a chamber group with whom he toured widely and recorded several discs. The group commissioned many works, including George Crumb’s Voice of the Whale, and was the resident ensemble with the New York-based Affiliate Artists in Wisconsin and Alabama for four seasons. He has also played with the Windsor String Quartet in Vermont, the Network for New Music, Relache and the Philadelphia Camerata in Philadelphia, and, currently, the Midsummer and Chancellor String Quartets. Charles Forbes has been on the faculties of Smith, Amherst and Mount Holyoke Colleges, Exeter Academy, the Manhattan School of Music, and the University of Delaware. He has been music director of the Princeton Chamber Music Play Week since it was founded 13 years ago. Mr. Forbes currently lives in Langhorne, PA, plays with Orchestra 2001 and the Bucks County Symphony (principal), and teaches privately and at the Settlement Music School. Published author of Cello Scales and Arpeggios, published by ECS Publishing, Mr. Forbes has compiled a comprehensive addition to the scale book literature that is unique in that it features modal scales and seventh chord arpeggios. Mr. Forbes is also the inventor of the Forbes Music Scroller, a clever solution for eliminating the problem of page turns. Martha Gerschefski received the Performance Diploma from the Juilliard School of Music with Luigi Silva and Isidore Cohen, then studied privately in Europe with Andre Navarra, Edward Mattos, and Nadia Boulanger and earned the Diploma of Merit from the Accadmia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. She has toured Europe performing recitals under the State Department Cultural Presentations Abroad program and has presented solo concert tours in the United States and Central America. Ms. Gerschefski was the first woman selected by Leopold Stokowski for the American Symphony Orchestra, where she held the position of associate principal cello, and has been principal cellist with the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra, and the Atlanta Ballet. She has presented classes and workshops throughout the USA, Canada, and Central and South America. Honors for Ms. Gerschefski include the Koussevitzsky Prize and the Martha Baird Rockefeller grant for study abroad. She was recently selected as the American String Teachers' Association Georgia Educator of the Year and received the Georgia State University College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award for 1999-2000. Ms. Gerschefski is co-founder of the Georgia Academy of Music, began the string quartet program at The Westminster Schools of Atlanta, founded the University Cello Choir and currently serves on the faculty of the Georgia State University School of Music. She and her husband, Clint Schaum, reside in Georgia during the winter and Maine during the summer. Jane Hawkins is from South Wales and studied both piano and cello at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has been a professor of music at Duke University since 1985. She has appeared with the Dorian Wind Quintet, the Ciompi Quartet, the Chicago Symphony Chamber players, and the American Chamber players. Recent collaborators include James Buswell, Steven Ansell, Ron Leonard, and Branford Marsalis. Fred Raimi and Jane Hawkins have been married since 1975. Their CD of music by Paul Schoenfield, Mark Kuss, and Max Raimi has just been released by Gasparo Records. Timothy Holley is a graduate of Baldwin Wallace College and The University of Michigan, where he studied, respectively, with Regina Mushabac, Jerome Jelinek, Jeffrey Solow and Erling Bløndal Bengtsson. He was a member of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra for twelve years and was also affiliated with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra during that time. He has served as Assistant Professor of Music at North Carolina Central University since 1996, and has also taught at the Duke University String School. He has appeared as a guest artist with the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University, the Mallarmé Chamber Players, and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. Hans Jorgen Jensen, professor of cello at Northwestern University, is also a faculty member of the Meadowmount School of Music. He has soloed with the Copenhagen Symphony, Danish Radio Orchestra, Irish Radio Orchestra, and Basel Symphony Orchestra. Professor Jensen was the winner of the Jacob Gades Prize, the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs Grant for Musicians, the Copenhagen Music Critics Prize of Honor, and the Artist International Competition in New York. He was named outstanding Studio Teacher of the Year by Illinois chapter, American String Teachers Association and was the recipient of the U.S. Presidential Scholar Teacher Recognition Award for the U.S. Department of Education. His students have won prizes in numerous national and international competitions. Professor Jensen studied at the Juilliard School with Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins, and studied privately and performed in master classes with Pierre Fournier. Professor Jensen holds a Soloist Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music, Denmark. Gilbert Kalish leads a musical life of unusual variety and breadth. His profound influence on the musical community as educator, and as pianist in myriad performances and recordings, has established him as a major figure in American music making. A native New Yorker and graduate of Columbia College, Mr. Kalish studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabella Vengerova. He has been the pianist of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players since 1969 and was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble; a group devoted to new music that flourished during the 1960's and 70's. He is a frequent guest artist with many of the world's most distinguished chamber ensembles. His thirty-year partnership with the great mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani was universally recognized as one of the most remarkable artistic collaborations of our time. He maintains long-standing duos with the cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, and he appears frequently with soprano Dawn Upshaw. As educator he is Leading Professor and Head of Performance Activities at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. From 1968-1997 he was a faculty member of the Tanglewood Music Center and served as the "Chairman of the Faculty" at Tanglewood from 1985-1997. He often serves as guest faculty at distinguished music institutions such as the Banff Centre and the Steans Institute at Ravinia, and is renowned for his master class presentations. Mr. Kalish's discography of some 100 recordings encompasses classical repertory, 20th Century masterworks and new compositions. Of special note are his solo recordings of Charles Ives' Concord Sonata and Sonatas of Joseph Haydn, an immense discography of vocal music with Jan DeGaetani and landmarks of the 20th Century by composers such as Carter, Crumb, Shapey and Schoenberg. In 1995 he was presented with the Paul Fromm Award by the University of Chicago Music Department for distinguished service to the music of our time. Praised by critics as the “mastery of the instrument” with “great warmth and beauty” cellist Bongshin Ko has appeared worldwide at music festivals including Schleswig-Holstein, Kronberg, American Cello Congress and Seoul International collaborating with Sir Georg Solti, M. Rostropovich, Gunter Schuller and others. Her solo engagements include invitations to perform with Vienna Sinfonietta, German Chamber Orchestra, Television- Radio Symphony of Moscow, Korean Broadcasting Symphony to name a few. Ms. Ko is currently the Cello Professor at California State University, Fullerton and returns to various summer festivals throughout the globe. Jonathan C. Kramer is Associate Director of the Music Department at North Carolina State University and Adjunct Professor of Ethnomusicology at Duke University. Dr. Kramer holds advanced degrees from Duke and the Graduate School of the Union Institute where he completed a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and Performance Studies in 1994 with a dissertation on traditional Korean music. As a cellist, he has performed as principal of the Tucson Symphony and as a member of the San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras and the North Carolina Symphony. Among his teachers are Aldo Parisot,Gordon Epperson, Raya Garbousova, David Wells, Madeline Foley, and Maurice Gendron. He has performed extensively as recitalist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. as well as in Russia, India, Korea, Canada, Austria, Bulgaria, U. K. and Italy and has been awarded Senior Fulbright Fellowships at Banaras-Hindu University in India and at Chosun University in Kwangju, South Korea. He has performed with The Mostly Modern series of San Francisco, Mallarme Chamber Players, Duke University Encounters Series, the Piccolo Spoletto Festival, Raleigh Chamber Music Guild; and presented solo concertos with the Raleigh Symphony, Raleigh Civic Symphony, Durham Symphony, Orchestra of Virginia Beach, and the North Carolina Symphony. He has recorded for Albany Records, and Soundings of the Planet Studios. He is on the teaching faculty of the North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Institute and frequently accompanies Rumi translator Coleman Barks in poetry readings. Dr. Kramer has lectured on Music and Aesthetics in the United States the U. K., Korea, and recently at the Ramakrishna Mission in Calcutta, India; and has received critical commendation for his lectures and commentaries. He served as moderator of the Pedagogy Panel at the American Cello Congress this past summer, and recently presented An Homage to Pau Casals at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London in September with cellists Bernard Greenhouse and Selma Gokcen. |
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