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/
Artist Faculty Chamber Series
presents
from Russia with Love
из Россия с Любовью
Thursday, October 30, 2003
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
afcs
Program
Commentary by Pierpaolo Polzonetti, UNCG School of Music
Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 Sergei Prokofiev
Andante assai (1891-1953)
Allegro brusco
Andante
Allegrissimo
John Fadial, violin
Andrew Harley, piano
Songs and Dances, Op. 84 Alexander Tcherepnin
Georgian Song (1899-1977)
Tartar Dance
Russian Song
Kazakh Dance
Brooks Whitehouse, violoncello
Andrew Harley, piano
Intermission
Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Allegro con spirito (1840-1893)
Adagio cantabile
Allegretto moderato
Allegro vivace
John Fadial, violin
Wendy Rawls, violin
Scott Rawls, viola
Thomas Rosenthal, viola
Brooks Whitehouse, violoncello
Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello
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The hall is equipped with a listening assistance system.
Patrons needing such assistance should contact an usher in the lobby.
Patrons are encouraged to take note of the exits located on all levels of
the auditorium. In an emergency, please use the nearest exit, which may
be behind you or different from the one through which you entered.
Brooks Whitehouse (BA, Harvard College, MM and DMA, SUNY
Stony Brook) is UNCG’s new Cello Professor. He comes to
Greensboro from the University of Florida where he spent a year as
Assistant Professor of Cello and Chamber Music. From 1996-2001 he
and his wife, violinist Janet Orenstein, were artists in residence at the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville as members of The Guild Trio.
In his thirteen years as cellist of the Guild Trio Mr. 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, and The Tanglewood Music Center. This ensemble was a
winner of both the "USIA Artistic Ambassador" and "Chamber Music Yellow Springs"
competitions, and with the group Mr. Whitehouse has performed throughout the United
States and Canada, as well as in Norway, Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Belgium,
Luxembourg, Germany, Portugal, France and Australia.
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Pierpaolo Polzonetti completed his undergraduate studies at the
University of Rome “La Sapienza,” and earned his Ph.D. in historical
musicology from Cornell University, where he wrote a dissertation on
“Opera Buffa and the American Revolution.” As a doctoral student, he
received the prestigious Alvin Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship
Award. Dr. Polzonetti is the author of Tartini e la musica secondo natura
(Lucca: LIM, 2001) and awarded the “Premio Internazionale Latina.” He
also wrote articles on Seventeenth-century opera, the music of oral
tradition that inspired Tartini, and the semiotics of food in Verdi’s operas, pioneering the
fat-free academic field of “gastro-musicology”. He directs the UNCG Collegium Musicum
early music ensemble.
upcoming afcs events:
time
thursday, january 29, 2004 · 7:30 pm
music of gershwin & messiaen
czech-please!
thursday, march 18, 2004 · 7:30 pm
music of janáček, martinů, & dohnányi
performances will take place in the school of music recital hall.
for tickets, call 334.4849 or e-mail boxoffice@uncg.edu
John Fadial holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts,
the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Maryland. As a
United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador, he has toured
extensively on four continents. Recent recital appearances have
included performances at the Phillips Collection; the Kennedy Center;
the Sale Poirel, Nancy, France; and the American University in
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. A highly successful teacher, his students has
been accepted by such prestigious institutions as Oberlin
Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, the Eastman School, The Cleveland Institute, and
the National Repertory Orchestra. They also have included winners of the Pittsburgh
Symphony Young Artist Solo Competition; and winners and finalists in the MTNA National
Competitions. John Fadial currently serves as concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony
Orchestra, as well as violinist of the Chesapeake Trio and the McIver Ensemble. His
mentors include Elaine Richey, Charles Castleman, and Arnold Steinhardt.
Andrew Harley is Associate Professor of Accompanying in the School
of Music at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He received
a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, the Artist Diploma from the
Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and a D.M.A from the
University of Southern California. He has been heard in recital
throughout Europe and the States in solo, accompanying and chamber
music performances. Previous appointments have included the
University of California Los Angeles, the University of Southern
California and the University of California Santa Barbara where he was
Head of Accompanying. In addition to these positions, he has also held posts at a variety
of summer schools. For five years, he was Director of Chamber Music for the International
Institute for Young Musicians and more recently was Associate Faculty at the Music
Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. He has been featured on live radio and television
broadcasts and currently serves as the official accompanist for a number of national and
international competitions and conferences. Recent CD recordings include chamber music
of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor as well as Russian music for cello and piano with cellist
Brooks Whitehouse. Future performances are scheduled throughout the United States and
Australia. Dr. Harley is Director of the Accompanying Program at UNCG.
Violinist Wendy Rawls is very active as both performer and teacher.
She is presently assistant concertmaster of the Greensboro
Symphony and a member of the Chapel Hill Chamber Orchestra.
She has also performed with the North Carolina Symphony, Charlotte
Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, and Eastern Music
Festival Orchestra. For many summers, she performed in Italy at the
Spoleto Festival, in the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz,
Austria, and at the American School at Fontainbleau, France. As
chamber artist, she has recently performed at the Shenandoah Valley
Bach Festival in Harrisonburg, Virginia and at Summer Music in
Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Ms. Rawls is currently the founder and director of the Gate
City Suzuki School in Greensboro, N.C. She was formerly on the faculty at Moravian
College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she founded the Moravian College Music
Institute Suzuki Program. Ms. Rawls has also been on the faculties of C.W. Post University
and the Gulf Coast Music Suzuki Program. Ms. Rawls has received degrees from Ithaca
College, New England Conservatory, and Mannes College of Music. Her major teachers
include Linda Case, Paul Kantor and Hiroko Yajima. She received complete Suzuki
certification from the School for Strings in New York City where she trained with Louise
Behrend.
Violist Scott Rawls has appeared as soloist, recitalist and chamber
musician throughout the United States and in Europe. Also a champion
of new music, Rawls has toured extensively as a member of Steve
Reich and Musicians with recent performances in Chicago, New York,
and at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC. He is a founding
member of the Locrian Chamber Players, a New York City based group
dedicated to performing new music. Rawls is invited frequently as
guest artist with chamber ensembles across the country. He has
recorded for CRI, Nonesuch, Capstone, and Philips labels. His most recent recording
project, Middle Voices, works for viola and clarinet, was released on the Centaur label
spring 2003. In addition to serving as viola professor and coordinator of the string area at
the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Dr. Rawls is very active as guest clinician,
adjudicator, and master class teacher at universities and festivals in America and Europe.
He holds a B.M. degree from Indiana University and a M.M. and D.M.A. from State
University of New York at Stony Brook. His major teachers have included Abraham
Skernick, Gorges Janzer, and John Graham to whom he was an assistant at SUNY at
Stony Brook.
Violist Thomas Rosenthal is a native of Long Island, New York. He received his Bachelor
of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he was the recipient of the W. R. Hearst
Scholarship and the Augustus Juilliard Fellowship and was a student of violist, Paul
Neubauer. Other viola teachers include Scott Rawls and Alan deVeritch. Mr. Rosenthal
enjoys a great variety of musical endeavors. He is a very active chamber musician with
performance credits throughout North America. He is a founding member of the Big Apple
Baroque Ensemble and also America’s Dream Chamber Artists. During the summer of
2003, he was a guest performer and string coach at Indiana University in Bloomington. In
addition, he was also a resident artist at the Musica Viva festival in Princeton, NJ. Mr.
Rosenthal has served as principal violist of the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra and the
Juilliard Orchestra. In 1996, Mr. Rosenthal was awarded the Ellen B. Stoeckel Fellowship
to attend the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. From 1998-99, he was Dean of Students at
the Park City International Music Festival in Park City, Utah. Mr. Rosenthal currently
freelances in the New York area, playing with New York Philharmonic, Brooklyn
Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, and is very active in the commercial and
movie recording industries.
Beth Vanderborgh is principal cellist of the Greensboro Symphony
Orchestra, co-principal of the Carolina Chamber Symphony and cellist
of the Chesapeake Trio. She has captured top prizes in the Baltimore
Chamber Awards, the National Society of Arts and Letters Cello
Competition and the Ulrich Solo Competition. Dr. Vanderborgh holds
degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, the Eastman School of
Music and the University of Maryland. As United States Information
Service Artistic Ambassador, her performances have taken her to four
continents. Recent engagements have included performances at the
Kennedy Center, the Phillips Collection, the Teatro Nacional in Costa
Rica and the American University in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. A
dedicated and successful pedagogue, her students have been accepted by such
prestigious institutions as: the Curtis Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, the Cleveland
Institute and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Her students also have included
winners of the Pittsburgh Symphony Young Artist Solo Competition, the Duquense Young
Artist Competition and the WV MTNA Competition. Dr. Vanderborgh has served on the
faculties of the City Music Center of Duquense University, Alderson-Broaddus College and
Valdosta State University. She currently performs and teaches at the Eastern Music
Festival and the French-American String Academy. Her mentors include David Geber,
Steven Doane, Evelyn Elsing and David Soyer.
John Fadial holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts,
the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Maryland. As a
United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador, he has toured
extensively on four continents. Recent recital appearances have
included performances at the Phillips Collection; the Kennedy Center;
the Sale Poirel, Nancy, France; and the American University in
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. A highly successful teacher, his students has
been accepted by such prestigious institutions as Oberlin
Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, the Eastman School, The Cleveland Institute, and
the National Repertory Orchestra. They also have included winners of the Pittsburgh
Symphony Young Artist Solo Competition; and winners and finalists in the MTNA National
Competitions. John Fadial currently serves as concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony
Orchestra, as well as violinist of the Chesapeake Trio and the McIver Ensemble. His
mentors include Elaine Richey, Charles Castleman, and Arnold Steinhardt.
Andrew Harley is Associate Professor of Accompanying in the School
of Music at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He received
a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, the Artist Diploma from the
Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and a D.M.A from the
University of Southern California. He has been heard in recital
throughout Europe and the States in solo, accompanying and chamber
music performances. Previous appointments have included the
University of California Los Angeles, the University of Southern
California and the University of California Santa Barbara where he was
Head of Accompanying. In addition to these positions, he has also held posts at a variety
of summer schools. For five years, he was Director of Chamber Music for the International
Institute for Young Musicians and more recently was Associate Faculty at the Music
Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. He has been featured on live radio and television
broadcasts and currently serves as the official accompanist for a number of national and
international competitions and conferences. Recent CD recordings include chamber music
of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor as well as Russian music for cello and piano with cellist
Brooks Whitehouse. Future performances are scheduled throughout the United States and
Australia. Dr. Harley is Director of the Accompanying Program at UNCG.
Violinist Wendy Rawls is very active as both performer and teacher.
She is presently assistant concertmaster of the Greensboro
Symphony and a member of the Chapel Hill Chamber Orchestra.
She has also performed with the North Carolina Symphony, Charlotte
Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, and Eastern Music
Festival Orchestra. For many summers, she performed in Italy at the
Spoleto Festival, in the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz,
Austria, and at the American School at Fontainbleau, France. As
chamber artist, she has recently performed at the Shenandoah Valley
Bach Festival in Harrisonburg, Virginia and at Summer Music in
Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Ms. Rawls is currently the founder and director of the Gate
City Suzuki School in Greensboro, N.C. She was formerly on the faculty at Moravian
College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she founded the Moravian College Music
Institute Suzuki Program. Ms. Rawls has also been on the faculties of C.W. Post University
and the Gulf Coast Music Suzuki Program. Ms. Rawls has received degrees from Ithaca
College, New England Conservatory, and Mannes College of Music. Her major teachers
include Linda Case, Paul Kantor and Hiroko Yajima. She received complete Suzuki
certification from the School for Strings in New York City where she trained with Louise
Behrend.
Violist Scott Rawls has appeared as soloist, recitalist and chamber
musician throughout the United States and in Europe. Also a champion
of new music, Rawls has toured extensively as a member of Steve
Reich and Musicians with recent performances in Chicago, New York,
and at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC. He is a founding
member of the Locrian Chamber Players, a New York City based group
dedicated to performing new music. Rawls is invited frequently as
guest artist with chamber ensembles across the country. He has
recorded for CRI, Nonesuch, Capstone, and Philips labels. His most recent recording
project, Middle Voices, works for viola and clarinet, was released on the Centaur label
spring 2003. In addition to serving as viola professor and coordinator of the string area at
the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Dr. Rawls is very active as guest clinician,
adjudicator, and master class teacher at universities and festivals in America and Europe.
He holds a B.M. degree from Indiana University and a M.M. and D.M.A. from State
University of New York at Stony Brook. His major teachers have included Abraham
Skernick, Gorges Janzer, and John Graham to whom he was an assistant at SUNY at
Stony Brook.
Violist Thomas Rosenthal is a native of Long Island, New York. He received his Bachelor
of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he was the recipient of the W. R. Hearst
Scholarship and the Augustus Juilliard Fellowship and was a student of violist, Paul
Neubauer. Other viola teachers include Scott Rawls and Alan deVeritch. Mr. Rosenthal
enjoys a great variety of musical endeavors. He is a very active chamber musician with
performance credits throughout North America. He is a founding member of the Big Apple
Baroque Ensemble and also America’s Dream Chamber Artists. During the summer of
2003, he was a guest performer and string coach at Indiana University in Bloomington. In
addition, he was also a resident artist at the Musica Viva festival in Princeton, NJ. Mr.
Rosenthal has served as principal violist of the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra and the
Juilliard Orchestra. In 1996, Mr. Rosenthal was awarded the Ellen B. Stoeckel Fellowship
to attend the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. From 1998-99, he was Dean of Students at
the Park City International Music Festival in Park City, Utah. Mr. Rosenthal currently
freelances in the New York area, playing with New York Philharmonic, Brooklyn
Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, and is very active in the commercial and
movie recording industries.
Beth Vanderborgh is principal cellist of the Greensboro Symphony
Orchestra, co-principal of the Carolina Chamber Symphony and cellist
of the Chesapeake Trio. She has captured top prizes in the Baltimore
Chamber Awards, the National Society of Arts and Letters Cello
Competition and the Ulrich Solo Competition. Dr. Vanderborgh holds
degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, the Eastman School of
Music and the University of Maryland. As United States Information
Service Artistic Ambassador, her performances have taken her to four
continents. Recent engagements have included performances at the
Kennedy Center, the Phillips Collection, the Teatro Nacional in Costa
Rica and the American University in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. A
dedicated and successful pedagogue, her students have been accepted by such
prestigious institutions as: the Curtis Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, the Cleveland
Institute and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Her students also have included
winners of the Pittsburgh Symphony Young Artist Solo Competition, the Duquense Young
Artist Competition and the WV MTNA Competition. Dr. Vanderborgh has served on the
faculties of the City Music Center of Duquense University, Alderson-Broaddus College and
Valdosta State University. She currently performs and teaches at the Eastern Music
Festival and the French-American String Academy. Her mentors include David Geber,
Steven Doane, Evelyn Elsing and David Soyer.
