2005-03-04 The Greenhouse Celebration Honoring Cellist Bernard Greenhouse in His 90th Year [recital program]

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Honoring cellist Bernard Greenhouse
Brooks Whitehouse, Director
March 4 — 6, 2005
in his 90th year
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Bernard Greenhouse was born in New Jersey and studied for four years at The Juilliard School with the English cellist Felix Salmond. After graduating he continued his studies with Emanuel Feuermann and Diran Alexanian, and earned resounding critical acclaim with his New York recital debut at Town Hall. He then auditioned for Pablo Casals, which resulted in two years of study with the great Spanish master. Casals wrote, “Bernard Greenhouse is not only a remarkable cellist, but what I esteem more, a dignified artist.”
Mr. Greenhouse has since won a reputation as one of the major interpreters of his instrument, making appearances in most of the major cities of Europe and America in recital, with orchestra and chamber music ensembles, and recording for CRI, CBS, RCA, Philips, Concert Hall, and the American Recording Society. He has been a member of the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, from which he received an honorary doctorate, and has also taught at The Juilliard School and at the Indiana University summer school. Recently retired emeritus from his position as professor at the Rutgers University and from the New England Conservatory, he now teaches masterclasses in the USA, Canada, Asia, and Europe. He was a cellist with the Bach Aria Group and, for 32 years, a founding member of the Beaux Arts trio.
His varied career has brought him recognition both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. He has been awarded the National Service Award by Chamber Music America, the Distinguished Cellist Award from Indiana University, and in 1996, along with Mstislav Rostropovich, the Award of Distinction at the RNCM Manchester International Cello Festival.
Mr. Greenhouse plays the famed “Paganini” Stradivarius cello dated 1707.
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On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students in the School of Music at UNCG, welcome to the second Celebration 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 last 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 second Celebration be devoted to Bernard Greenhouse. We are pleased and honored that so many of Mr. Greenhouse’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 also 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.
Best wishes for an enjoyable visit to Greensboro!
Sincerely,
John J. Deal, PhD
Dean
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Schedule of Events
Friday, March 4
Jackson Library and Alumni House 4
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Each masterclass features a new student on the ½-hour.
9:00 am – 5:00 pm: Registration and viewing of a display from the Greenhouse
Cello Music Collection at the Jackson Library Special Collections Reading Room.
11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Masterclass with Gustavo Tavares of Triángulo
Jerrell Lecture Hall of Jackson Library
Masterclass with Tilmann Wick (University of Music and Drama, Hanover, Germany)
Alumni House
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Alexander Technique for Cellists with Selma Gokcen (Violoncello Society of London)
Jerrell Lecture Hall of Jackson Library
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Masterclass with Steven Doane (Eastman School of Music)
Alumni House
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Quartet Masterclass with Astrid Schween of the Lark Quartet
Jerrell Lecture Hall of Jackson Library
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Library Staff presentation on how to access the cello music collections of Greenhouse and others.
Alumni House
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Presentation by Bernard Greenhouse and author Nicholas Delbanco on Mr. Greenhouse’s “Paganini” Stradivarius cello
Alumni House
7:30 pm: Concert 1: Opening Gala (reception to follow)
Program on following page
West Market Street United Methodist Church
Concert 1: Opening Gala
7:30 pm
West Market Street United Methodist Church
Program
Suite no. V in C minor BWV 1011 Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude (1685-1750)
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte I and II 5
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Gigue
Brooks Whitehouse, violoncello
Dr. Whitehouse is performing the Bach this evening
on a cello made by Alexander Gagliano in 1720.
This instrument is on loan from Mr. Peter Mandell
in conjunction with János Bodor.
from the Sonata for Violin and Cello Maurice Ravel
Lent (1875-1937)
Vif, avec entrain
Janet Orenstein, violin
Grace Lin, violoncello
from the Quartet in A minor, Op. 35 Anton Arensky
Variations on a theme of Tchaikovsky (1861-1906)
Finale: Andante sostenuto – Allegro moderato
John Fadial, violin · Scott Rawls, viola
Charles Forbes and Pamela Frame, violoncellos
Intermission
from the String Quintet in C major, Op. 163 Franz Schubert
Allegro ma non troppo (1797-1828)
The Ciompi Quartet
Eric Pritchard and Hsaio-mei Ku, violins
Jonathan Bagg, viola · Fred Raimi, violoncello
with guest cellist Rolf Gjeltsen of the New Zealand Quartet
“Round Robin” Rococo Variations for Cello Quartet Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893)
arr. Douglas Moore
David Starkweather, Alexei Romanenko,
Selma Gokcen and Brooks Whitehouse, violoncellos
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Schedule of Events
Saturday, March 5
UNCG School of Music
8:30 am: Coffee and Pastries
Recital Hall Atrium
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9:00 am – 11:00 am: Masterclass with Robert Jesselson (University of
South Carolina)
Recital Hall
Masterclass on orchestral excerpts with Qiang Tu of the
New York Philharmonic
Organ Hall
10:00 am – 11:30 am: “Improvisation for Everyone” with Eric Edberg
(Depauw University)
Room 110
11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Masterclass with Amit Peled (Peabody Conservatory)
Recital Hall
Masterclass with Pamela Frame
Organ Hall
Lunch (on your own)
2:00 pm: Concert 2: Celebration Cello Matinée
Program on following page
Recital Hall
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Masterclass with Bernard Greenhouse
Recital Hall
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Interview: Jonathan Kramer with Mr. Greenhouse
Recital Hall
5:30 pm – 6:15 pm: Cello Orchestra Reading Session with Don Hodges (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) — Bring your cello!
Room 111
7:30 pm: Concert 3: Evening Extravaganza (reception to follow)
Program on page 8
Recital Hall
Concert 2: Celebration Cello Matinée
2:00 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
Arias from Cantata 21 "Erfreue dich Seele" Johann Sebastian Bach
and Cantata 41 "Woferne du den Edlan Frieden" (1685-1750)
Robert Bracey, tenor
Timothy Eddy, violoncello
Continuo: Susan Bates, harpsichord and Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello
from the Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 Serge Rachmaninoff
Andante (1873-1943)
Betsy Husby, violoncello
Alexander Chernyshev, piano 7
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Chorando Baixinho Abel Ferreira
Habanera y Vals Venezolano Paquito D´Rivera
arr. G.Tavares
Gustavo Tavares, violoncello
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Three pieces “From Jewish Life” Ernest Bloch
Prayer, Supplication, and Jewish Song (1880-1959)
Amit Peled, violoncello
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Preludios e Fugas para Orquestra de Violoncellos (arr. 1941) Johann Sebastian Bach
Preludio #22 Adagio (Lamentoso) arr. Heitor Villa-Lobos
Fuga #5 Andante Sostenuto e Cantabila
Preludio # 14 Adagio
Fuga #1 Andante
Preludio #8 Grave
Fuga #8 Andante Sostenuto
Sardana (1930) Pablo Casals Pablo Casals
(1876-1973)
Music for the Casals is generously provided by the
Willeke Collection at Williams College
The Celebration Cello Orchestra
Jonathan Kramer, director
Cello 1
Alexander Kramer
Bongshin Ko
Emanuel Gruber
Michael Mathews
Gal Nyska
Mark Foster
Cello 2
Liz Beilmann
Lonya Zilper
Joel Wenger
Brent Wissick
Carol Bjorlie
Margaret Cole
Cello 3
Douglas Moore
Lachezar Kostov
Lisa Liske-Doorandish
Grace Lin
Betsy Husby
Jake Wenger
Cello 4
Gina Pezzoli
Ralph Greenhouse
Virginia Hudson
Wendy Bissinger
Brian Hodges
David Baumgartner
Concert 3: Evening Extravaganza
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
Seven Variations in E@, WoO 46 Ludwig van Beethoven
On a theme from Mozart’s The Magic Flute (1770-1827)
Jonathan Miller, violoncello
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Les Larmes de Jacqueline Jacques Offenbach
(1819-1880) 8
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Danza Boris Papandopulo
(1906-1991)
Bongshin Ko, violoncello
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Sonata for Cello and Piano Elliott Carter
Moderato (b. 1908)
Vivace, molto leggiero
Adagio
Allegro
Timothy Eddy, violoncello
Gilbert Kalish, piano
Intermission
Trio in E minor, Op. 90 “Dumky” Antonín Dvořák
Lento maestoso—Allegro vivace, quasi doppio movimento (1841-1904)
Poco adagio—Vivace non troppo
Andante—Vivace non troppo
Andante moderato (quasi tempo di Marcia)—Allegretto scherzando
Allegro
Lento maestoso—Vivace, quasi doppio movimento
Gilbert Kalish, piano
Ian Swensen, violin
Paul Katz, violoncello
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Schedule of Events
Sunday, March 6
UNCG School of Music
9:00 am – 10:00 am: Masterclass with Brooks Whitehouse (University of
North Carolina at Greensboro)
Organ Hall
9:00 am – 11:00 am: Masterclass with Bongshin Ko (California State University 9
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at Fullerton)
Room 110
10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Masterclass with Paul Katz (New England Conservatory)
Organ Hall
Masterclass with Timothy Eddy (The Juilliard School)
Recital Hall
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm: Buffet Luncheon (registered participants only)
Recital Hall Atrium and Organ Hall Atrium
1:30 pm: Concert 4: Grand Finale
Program on following page
Recital Hall
Concert 4: Grand Finale
1:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
Sonata in G minor, BWV 1029 Johann Sebastian Bach
Vivace (1685-1750)
Adagio
Allegro
Kate Dillingham, violoncello
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Duo No. 1 for violin and cello Bohuslav Martinů
I. Prelude (1890-1959)
II. Rondo
John Fadial, violin
Tilmann Wick, violoncello
Grande Tango Astor Piazzolla
(1921-1992)
Astrid Schween, violoncello
Gary Hammond, piano
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Suite for Cello Op. 72 Benjamin Britten
Canto Primo: Sostenuto e largamente (1913-1976)
I. Fuga: Andante moderato
II. Lamento
Canto Secondo
III. Serenata
IV. Marcia
Canto Terzo
V. Bordone
VI. Moto Perpetuo e Canto Quarto
Steven Doane, violoncello
Intermission
Sonata for Cello and Piano Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)
Maureen McDermott, violoncello
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Frejlachs Joachim Stutschewsky
(1891-1981)
Hebrew Melodie Joseph Achron
(1886-1943)
Inbal Segev, violoncello
Ināra Zandmane, piano
In Memorium Meira Warshauer
Yitzkor Ayala Kalus
Buffing the Gut Ben Boone
Robert Jesselson, violoncello
Polonaise Brilliante Frédéric Chopin
(1810-1849)
Qiang Tu, cello
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Performer Biographies
Susan Bates serves as organist at West Market Street United Methodist Church in downtown Greensboro, where she enjoys playing organ, piano, and harpsichord for the various music ministries and concert series of the church. She is also adjunct music faculty at Wake Forest University, harpsichordist with Carolina Baroque, and accompanist for the Moramus Chorale, directed by her husband, James, which is dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of Moravian music heritage. Susan holds degrees from Salem College and Yale University and has enjoyed concertizing in various venues, including New York and Washington, and participating in Mass at the Vatican.
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 11
piece was dedicated by Pulitzer-prize-winning composer Robert Ward to AURORA MUSICALIS, is available 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.
Wendy Bissinger is a Suzuki Cello Teacher with a private studio in Greenville, NC. She has 24 students from the eastern region of the state. Her students range from pre-twinkle to the concerto level. She teaches Suzuki strings and Orchestra at Arendell Parrott Academy in Kinston, NC, with over 150 students that perform throughout the region. Mrs. Bissinger is a graduate of East Carolina University and completed her Suzuki teacher training with Tanya Carey, Nell Novak, Nancy Hair, Rick Mooney and Gilda Barston. She conducts workshops in North and South Carolina, and teaches each summer at the South Carolina and Louisville Suzuki Institutes. She has performed with several regional symphonies, and was chosen to perform Casals' cello works at the Kennedy Center under Alexander Schneider and the late Pablo Casals. Mrs. Bissinger arranges music for cello ensembles, and has published two books for young cellists, Sequenced Scale Studies and Scaling the Tenor Clef Dragon. Other works from Boshu Press include Beethoven’s “Rondo” from the Symphony No. 7, Bach’s Wachet Auf and various settings of traditional folk songs.
Robert Bracey, tenor, joined the School of Music faculty in 2003. He holds a BM in Music Education from Michigan State University, a MM and a DMA in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan. He previously served on the faculties at Bowling Green State University and Michigan State University. He has also taught on the voice faculty of the Michigan All-State program at the Interlochen Arts Camp for twelve summers. Dr. Bracey was awarded first place in the 2002 Oratorio Society of New York¹s International Solo Competition at Carnegie Hall. A Regional Finalist in the New York Metropolitan Opera Auditions, he also won first place in the NATS Regional Competition where he received the Jessye Norman Award for the most outstanding soloist at the competition. In 1999, he made his Detroit Symphony debut at Orchestra Hall and in 1994, his Kennedy Center debut in Washington, DC with the Choral Arts Society of Washington. Most recent highlights include performances with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, Pacific Symphony (CA), Orlando Philharmonic, Choral Arts Society of Washington, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Wichita Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Duluth-Superior Symphony, Duke University Chapel Choir, Ann Arbor Symphony, and the Greater Lansing Symphony. Engagements for 2004-2005 include performances with the Telemann Chamber Orchestra in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Independence (MO) Messiah Festival, Grand Rapids Symphony, and the Boise Philharmonic. Dr. Bracey's first solo compact disc will be released by Centaur Records in 2005.
Alexander Chernyshev earned his doctorate and masters degrees with honors in piano and chamber music from the prestigious St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) Conservatory named after Rimsky-Korsakov in Russia. He has also received the American equivalent of the doctoral of musical arts since his move to the U.S. He taught piano and chamber music for eighteen years at the St. Petersburg Conservatory branch in Petrozavodsk, which is Duluth, Minnesota’s sister city. In Russia, he was a very active performer and collaborator with many Russian and international musicians. He has performed many times in such countries as Finland, Italy, France, Japan and Hong Kong. He was a founder and leader of the internationally-acclaimed trio, Classic Retro, an ensemble that has recorded extensively and received many awards and honors in Russian, Europe, and the United States. Alexander moved permanently to Duluth with his wife Olga, an accomplished violinist, and joined the music faculty of UMD in 1993. 12
The Ciompi Quartet has a distinguished past stretching back to its founding in 1965 by the renowned Italian violinist Giorgio Ciompi. The group currently travels widely to destinations throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, while it continues to play a leading role in the cultural life of its home state of North Carolina. Performances by the Ciompi Quartet are known for their intelligence and musical sophistication, and for a unified sound that leaves room for the players' individual voices. In the past two years, musical collaborations have included the distinguished talents of pianist Menahem Pressler, cellist Ronald Leonard, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, soprano Susan Narucki, and jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon. 2004 saw the release of the Quartet's latest CDs: of 20th century music for quartet and voice, featuring Ms. Narucki and tenor Steven Tharp; and a recording of the quartets of Paul Schoenfield including the popular "Tales of Chelm." Numerous other discs by the Ciompi Quartet are on the CRI, Arabesque, Albany, Gasparo, and Sheffield Lab labels, with music from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, up through the present. Members of the Ciompi Quartet are: Eric Pritchard and Hsiao-mei Ku, violins, Jonathan Bagg, viola, and Fred Raimi, cello.
Martina Cukrov, a native of Croatia, has been heard in Europe, United States and Asia, in venues such as Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, Boston Conservatory, UNESCO in Paris, City Hall of New York, Pusan Cultural Center, Korea, Kongressalle in Salzburg, Austria, Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, among others. Ms. Cukrov holds degrees in piano performance from the Zagreb Academy of Music, Croatia, and the Mannes College of Music, New York City. She also studied in Italy and Germany. Her teachers include Branko Sepèiæ, Marina Horak, Konstantin Bogino and Jerome Rose. She currently resides in New York City, and is on the faculty of the Montmouth Conservatory in Red Bank, New Jersey. As founder of the Terra Magica Music Festival, Croatia, Ms. Cukrov envisions an event that integrates music making with unique cultural experiences, for young people from all over the world to appreciate different artistic perspectives and inspiration.
Nicholas Delbanco is a consistently highly acclaimed writer who has authored 15 books including novels, collections of short stories, and non-fiction works. His novels include the newly released Old Scores, In the Name of Mercy (1994), The Martlet's Tale (1966), Consider Sappho Burning (1969), News (l 970), In the Middle Distance (1971), Small Rain (1975), and The Sherbrookes Trilogy (1978). Delbanco's non-fiction works include The Beaux Arts Trio, Group Portrait, and Running in Place: Scenes from the South of France. He has two collections of short fiction, About My Table and The Writer's Trade and Other Stories (1990) and a collection of short stories. Delbanco, a British-born American, received his B.A. from Harvard and his M.A. from Columbia University. He was a professor in the department of language and literature at Bennington College from 1966-85. Currently he directs the Hopwood Awards Program and the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Kate Dillingham, described as "a polished performer with the kind of sensitive understanding that can transform merely brilliant playing into moving musical statement,” made her debut in Russia in 1998, performing as soloist with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. The following year, she returned to perform and record the two concerti of Haydn in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Ms. Dillingham made her American recital debut in April of 2002 in New York. The press deemed her “an excellent cellist; dignified, intelligent, and compelling. An adventurous, dedicated champion of contemporary music, she performed with admirable control, conviction, and authority." During the 2004 Salzburg Festival, she performed with the Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and toured with it in France, Spain, Austria, and the Czech Republic. In March of 2005, she will solo with the same orchestra in both Salzburg and at New York’s 13
Metropolitan Museum. Ms. Dillingham has recorded three CDs, two of them on the Connoisseur Society label.
Steven Doane, a member of the Eastman cello faculty since 1981, has earned an international reputation both as performer and teacher. Formerly principal cellist of the Milwaukee Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic, and a member of the Naumberg Award-winning New Arts Trio during the 1980s, Mr. Doane has since built a performance career as concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He travels frequently to the United Kingdom for recitals, clinics, and masterclasses, and has performed concertos in recent seasons in Edinburgh and Dublin. Mr. Doane holds the Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Eastman School, and the Piatigorsky Commendation for teaching excellence from the New England Conservatory. Appearances as guest teacher and performer have twice taken Mr. Doane to the Manchester International Cello Festival, and as guest artist and teacher to most of the major music colleges in England. Between 1995 and 1999, Mr. Doane was an associate in cello at the Royal College of Music in London, and, following a series of masterclasses at the Royal Academy in London, has been named visiting professor by that institution. Doane has recorded for the Bridge, Pantheon, Daedmon, Gasparo, and Sony labels.
Eric Edberg was Bernard Greenhouse’s 1984-5 teaching assistant at SUNY Stony Brook. He also studied at Peabody, Juilliard, and the North Carolina School of the Arts with teachers including Leonard Rose, Stephen Kates, and Denis Brott. He is an active concert artist who has performed as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician across the country. As an improvisational musician, he has performed with artists including David Darling and Paul Horn, and is an exponent of Darling’s “Music for People” approach to improvisation. At DePauw University in Indiana, where he is Professor of Music, he teaches one of the country's few non-jazz improvisation courses for classical musicians. He has given improvisation workshops at Lawrence University, Ohio State, Appalachian State, Bethany College, the Interlochen Arts Camp, and for the Indiana Music Teachers Association annual convention. Edberg’s website, www.ericedberg.com, features free downloadable complete performances of both standard cello works and improvisations.
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. 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, 14
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.
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.
Charles Forbes received degrees from Harvard College and Manhattan School of Music. His principal cello teachers were Maurice Eisenberg and Bernard Greenhouse. He also studied cello with 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 (Mass.) 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 Chancellor String Quartet. Charles Forbes has been on the faculties of Smith, Amherst and Mt. 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 14 years ago. He currently lives in Langhorne, PA, plays with Orchestra 2001 and the Bucks County Symphony (principal), and teaches privately and at the Settlement Music School.
Mark Foster began his studies of the cello at the age of eleven in his native North Carolina. At the age of sixteen, Mark was accepted into The Yehudi Menuhin School in London. While in Britain, Mark performed chamber music in the Wigmore Hall and in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Mark recently completed a Bachelor of Music Degree in cello performance from the University of Southern California, where he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky Professor and former Los Angeles Philharmonic principal cellist Ronald Leonard. Mark has participated in masterclasses with such distinguished cellists as Mstislav Rostropovich, Bernhard Greenhouse, and Desmond Hoebig. His other principal teachers include Leonid Gorokov and Jonathan Kramer. 15
Pamela Frame has appeared in the major concert halls of the United
States and Europe. She was honored with a National Endowment for the
Arts Solo Recitalist Grant for 1995-1996. Ms. Frame has performed
hundreds of concerts in residencies in Texas, South Carolina, Ohio, Illinois,
Pennsylvania, and New York. From 1985 through 1989, Ms. Frame toured
and recorded in the United States and Europe with Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra. She was a member of the Eastman School of Music faculty
from 1989-2000. Ms. Frame has appeared as a chamber musician at the
Marlboro Festival, Festival Casals, Skaneateles Festival, Algonquin
Festival, Manchester Music Festival, as well as in Puerto Rico, Jamaica,
and in thirteen countries in Europe and Asia. She has recorded with
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon, and with Charles Castleman for Albany
Records. Her CD of music by Rebecca Clarke and Amy Beach is available on the Koch International
Classics label. She teaches privately and in the Pittsford, New York schools. Pamela Frame
studied with Ronald Leonard (Eastman), Bernard Greenhouse (Stony Brook) and Mstislav
Rostropovich.
Rolf Gjelsten began cello in his native state Victoria, Canada, with James
Hunter and Janos Starker at the age of 15. At 21 he became the youngest
member of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Rolf returned to North America
to study with Zara Nelsova, which led to further study with the members of
the La Salle, Hungarian, Vermeer, Cleveland and Emerson string quartets.
As a member of the Laurentian Quartet for almost a decade he toured
internationally, made five CDs and taught cello at Sarah Lawrence College
in New York. He was also a member of the New York Piano Trio. Rolf
furthered his studies in 1990 with the great Casals protégé Bernhard
Greenhouse at Rutgers University from where he received his doctoral
degree in cello. Rolf joined the New Zealand String Quartet in May 1994 and became a New
Zealand citizen in 1997.
Selma Gokcen, born in America of Turkish parentage, has appeared as
soloist with the Suisse Romande Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the
Istanbul State Symphony, and the Presidential State Symphony in Turkey,
where she is a favorite and frequent soloist. She has given recitals in New
York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and has toured in South
America for the U.S. State Department. Her appearances have taken her
to Europe and the People’s Republic of China, where she was invited to give
recitals and masterclasses in Shanghai, the Sichuan province, and Beijing.
An accomplished chamber musician, she is also professor of cello and
teacher of the Alexander Technique at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama in London. Selma holds a First Prize from the Geneva Conservatoire,
where she was a pupil of Guy Fallot and Pierre Fournier, and she also was awarded the B.Mus.,
M. Mus and a doctorate of music from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Leonard Rose.
Songs and Dances is her latest recording for the Gallo label. She is Co-Director of the Violoncello
Society of London, which just produced a film of Bernard Greenhouse scheduled for release this
autumn.
Emanuel Gruber is one of the foremost Israeli cellists. Principal cellist of the
Israel Chamber Orchestra, he is also active as soloist, recital and chamber
music player. A graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and
Tel-Aviv, Emanuel Gruber completed his musical training in the U.S.A. under
the auspices of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. He studied with
Gregor Piatigorsky and Janos Starker. In 1970, Emanuel Gruber was
awarded the Pablo Casals prize by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and in
1975 he won the Concert Artists' Guild Auditions in New York. For many
years Emanuel Gruber was a faculty member at the Rubin Academy of Music
in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem. In 1993-94, 1999, and 2002, he was a visiting
professor at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. Emanuel
Gruber also has presented masterclasses and recitals at Butler University, Indianapolis, and
DePaul University, Chicago. Recently, Emanuel Gruber participated in the "Musical Spring Festival"
in St. Petersburg and in the Rostropovich Cello Festival in Riga. He was on the jury of the Second
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Davidoff International Cello Competition in Kuldiga, Latvia. Emanuel Gruber has recorded four CDs that include major repertoire of the 19th and the 20th century. One is dedicated to the music of Joachim Stutschevsky (in Hassidic style), and one to chamber music compositions, performed with the Camerata Trio.
Gary Hammond, pianist, has been praised in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America as a recitalist and chamber musician of the first rank. The New York Times has described his playing as “eloquent-a strong feeling of musical expression and intelligent thought”. Mr. Hammond’s recent performances have taken him to Glazunov Hall in the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia; the Musikdagar Festival in Sweden; the Auditorio Nacional in Costa Rica. He has appeared at Weill Hall and Merkin Hall in New York; Ordway Hall, St. Paul; Boston’s Gardner Museum; Glenn Memorial Hall, Atlanta; Meany Hall, Seattle; the Hochschule in Munich, and Hong Kong’s City Hall. A native of Seattle, Mr. Hammond is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Juilliard School. His teachers include Randolph Hokanson, Bela Siki, Josef Raieff and Herbert Stessin. He is on the faculties of Hunter College, City University of New York, the Sewanee Music Festival, University of the South and the Hot Springs Music Festival, Arkansas. Mr. Hammond has recorded for the Altarus and Partita labels. His release on the Naxos label of the Celebre Tarantelle by Gottschalk and other Creole Romantic pieces has also received critical acclaim. Mr. Hammond has been a frequent participant in the Friends and Enemies of New Music series in Manhattan, has collaborated with the American Composer’s Orchestra, with singer Marni Nixon and actresses Claire Bloom and Luise Rainer.
Betsi Hodges, originally from St. Louis, MO, received her Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and her Master’s degree from Michigan State University, both in piano performance. Her teachers have included Ralph Votapek, Barry Snyder, Thomas Schumacher, and Jane Allen. During the summers, she has participated in festivals such as Banff and the International Institute for the Arts in Moscow, Russia. She has appeared as soloist with the Michigan State Philharmonic and the Jackson Symphony Orchestra. Currently, she teaches piano at Guilford College and at the Music Academy of North Carolina, and is an active accompanist in the Greensboro area.
Brian Hodges, originally from San Antonio, TX received both his Bachelor’s and his Master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He was the founding member of the Genesis String Quartet (formerly the Narnia Quartet), which had several residencies in the U.S., including Roberts Wesleyan College, and a rural residency in Madisonville, KY, where they performed to over 10,000 schoolchildren. He has been on the faculties of Spring Arbor University and Albion College and has served as co-director of the Jackson Symphony String Academy, in Jackson, MI. He has appeared as soloist with both the San Antonio Symphony and the Jackson Symphony. Mr. Hodges is now working on his doctorate at UNCG and a student of Brooks Whitehouse. This summer, he and his wife will be attending the International Music Festival in Rome, Italy. He is the administrative assistant for the Greenhouse Celebration.
Donald A. Hodges is Covington Distinguished Professor of Music Education and Director of the Music Research Institute at UNCG. His degrees are from the University of Kansas (BME) and the University of Texas (MM and PhD). Previous appointments include the Philadelphia public schools, the University of South Carolina, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Hodges is contributing editor of the Handbook of Music Psychology and the accompanying Multimedia Companion and has published numerous book chapters, articles, and research papers in music education and music psychology. He has made presentations to state, national, and international conferences and has served on the editorial boards of Music Educators Journal and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. He is past president of the Texas Music Educators Conference and Texas Coalition for Music Education, has served on scientific organizing and review committees for the International Society for Music Medicine and the International 17
Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, and is Chair of the Music Perception and Cognition Special Research Interest Group (Music Educators National Conference) and Research Chair for NCMEA. Recent research has focused on a series of brain imaging studies of musicians (funded by several large grants), on Williams Syndrome musicians, and on tonality judgments of popular music among pre-teens.
Virginia Ewing Hudson, of Raleigh, North Carolina, recently began teaching Music Appreciation at Saint Augustine's College. She continues to teach cello and other related topics at Meredith College where she has been a member of the faculty since 1981. At Meredith, Ms. Hudson formed the facultyperforming group The Meredith Chamber Players and she also performs as principal cellist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle as well as The Opera Company of North Carolina. In her work with young people, Ms. Hudson is the director of the Chamber Orchestra's new Quartet Program for young players and she also co-dir! ects The Lamar Stringfield Music Camp. Ms. Hudson, who was formerly Associate Principal with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, performs frequently at Meredith College and she has performed throughout Europe and the United States as a soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared as a cellist on PBS and radio performances. Ms. Hudson holds degrees from the University of Texas, The North Carolina School of the Arts and studied also with Lev Aronson, Robert Marsh and Colin Carr. As a cello pedagogue, Ms. Hudson has over 20 years of experience and has many students who now enjoy successful careers in music.
Betsy Husby earned her doctorate and masters degrees with honors at the State University of New York at Stony Brook with Bernard Greenhouse of the Beaux Arts Trio and Timothy Eddy of the Orion String Quartet. The highlights of her career have included performing in the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition, a live Minnesota Public Radio performance of Prokofiev’s technically demanding Sinfonie Concertante with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, and a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Petrozavodsk Symphony Orchestra funded by a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant. Most recently, Ms. Husby is funded by a McKnight/ARAC Artist Fellowship to tour her program with Alexander Chernyshev called "Russian Extravaganza." Betsy Husby is principal cello with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and is on the faculty of the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, and the College of St. Scholastica. She plays in the Highland String Quartet, Trillium Piano Trio, and U3 Piano Trio at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Robert Jesselson is Professor at the University of South Carolina where he teaches cello and plays in the American Arts Trio. He has performed in recital and with orchestras in Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States, and has participated in the Music Festivals at Nice, Granada, Santiago, Aspen, Spoleto and the Grand Tetons. In 1983 Dr. Jesselson was in China for a six-month residency, one of the first Western cellists to visit that country. Dr. Jesselson was the national President of ASTA from 2000-2002. In December, 2001 he led a delegation of string players and teachers to Cuba to begin professional contact with Cuban musicians. In 2004 he taught for a semester at Sookmyung University in Korea. This summer Dr. Jesselson will be teaching cello at the Green Mountain Music Festival in Vermont, at the North Carolina School of the Arts and at the ARIA International Summer Academy.
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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 Schönberg. 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.
Paul Katz is known to concertgoers the world over as cellist of the Cleveland Quartet, which during an international career of 26 years, made more than 2,500 appearances on four continents. As a member of this celebrated ensemble from 1969-1995, Katz performed at the White House and on many television shows including “CBS Sunday Morning,” NBC’s “Today Show,”  “The Grammy Awards“ (the first classical musicians to appear on that show), and in “In The Mainstream: The Cleveland Quartet,” a one-hour documentary televised across the U.S. and Canada. Katz has appeared as soloist in New York, Cleveland, Toronto, Detroit, Los Angeles, and other cities throughout North America. He was a student of Gregor Piatigorsky, Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Gabor Rejto and Leonard Rose. In 1962 he was selected nationally to play in the historic Pablo Casals Master Class in Berkeley, California. He was a prizewinner in the Munich and Geneva Competitions and for three summers, he was a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival. His recordings include Dohnanyi's Cello Sonata for ProArte Records, and the Cleveland Quartet’s recording on Sony Classical of the Schubert two-cello quintet with Yo-Yo Ma. The Cleveland Quartet has nearly 70 recordings to its credit on RCA Victor, Telarc International, Sony, Philips and ProArte. These recording have earned many distinctions including the all-time best selling chamber music release of Japan, 11 Grammy nominations, Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music Recording and Best Recorded Contemporary Composition in 1996, and “Best of the Year”  awards from Time Magazine and Stereo Review. In September of 2001, Mr. Katz joined the faculty of The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, following five years at Rice University in Houston, and twenty years of teaching at the Eastman School of Music. He has mentored many of the fine young string quartets on the world’s stages today including the Biava, Cavani, Chester, Jupiter, Kuss, Lafayette, Maia, Meliora, T’ang and Ying Quartets. One of America’s most sought after cello teachers, his cello students, in addition to membership in many of the above quartets, have achieved international careers with solo CDs on Decca, EMI, Channel Classics and Sony Classical, have occupied positions in many of the world’s major orchestras including principal chairs as far away as Oslo, Norway and Osaka, Japan, and are members of many American symphony orchestras such as Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, National Symphony, Pittsburgh, Rochester and St. Louis. Katz has taught at many of the major summer music programs including twenty years at the Aspen Festival, the Yale Summer School of Chamber Music, the Perlman Music Program, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Germany, ProQuartet in France, Domaine Forget, Orford, and the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, the Steans Institute of The Ravinia Festival, and is a Director of the Shouse Artist Institute of the Great Lakes Chamber Festival. His hundreds of master classes worldwide include many of 19
the major music schools of North and South America, Europe, Israel, Japan and China. Mr. Katz frequently sits on the juries of international cello and chamber music competitions, most recently the Leonard Rose International Cello Competition and the international string quartet competitions of Banff, London, Munich, Graz and Geneva. Mr. Katz plays an Andrea Guarneri cello dated 1669.
Bongshin Ko has performed and taught at music festivals including Seoul International, Schleswig-Holstein, Kronberg Cello, Rostropovich & Friends Concert (Germany), Beausolei (France), Este-Montagnana (Italy), del Mon Girona & musica d’Altafulla (Spain), American Cello Congress and Silva Centennial Celebration. As a recipient of over 30 prizes and awards including the Dong-A Gold Award (the highest music award in Korea), her solo engagements include invitations to perform with the Vienna Sinfonietta, German Chamber Orchestra, Television-Radio Symphony of Moscow, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Korean Broadcasting Symphony (KBS), Zagreb Philharmonic and Central Broadcasting Symphony of China. She was also selected to perform the Asian premiere of Bernard Rands Concerto especially composed and dedicated to celebrate the 70th birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich in 1997. Appearing regularly on KMozart (FM 105.1) Sundays Live Series in Los Angeles, Ms. Ko is currently the Cello Professor at California State University, Fullerton and returns to various summer festivals throughout the world.
Alex Kramer has studied with Maurice Gendron, Gordon Epperson & Zara Nelsova. He received his Bachelor's of Music with Bernard Greenhouse. Since graduation he has played with several Southern orchestras, including Atlanta, Greensboro, Charleston and was principal of Greenville, associate principal of Charlotte and most recently principal of Nashville Chamber during the Amy Grant/Vince Gill Christmas Tour. Today, Alex resides in Charlotte with his wife & various cats and enjoys teaching, coaching the youth orchestra and freelancing.
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, Mallarmé Chamber Players, Duke University Encounters Series, the Piccolo Spoleto 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 with cellists Bernard Greenhouse and Selma Gokcen.
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Grace Lin has performed as a recitalist and a chamber musician throughout North America and Europe. Ms. Lin has performed at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Bargemusic, Caramoor, and Aspen festivals, and has collaborated with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center such as Cho-Liang Lin, Paul Neubauer and Fred Sherry. In addition, she has appeared in concert tours to major cities in Holland, France and Germany. She received her bachelor's degree with honors from Harvard University, her master's degree from the Juilliard School. While currently pursuing her doctorate at UNCG, Ms. Lin also performs as a member of the Liberace Trio, the graduate chamber music ensemble in residence at UNCG, and the principal cellist of the Winston-Salem Symphony. She studied with Bernard Greenhouse from 2002 to 2004.
Lisa Liske-Doorandish holds an interest in bringing the cello and music-making in general to people who otherwise might be watching television. To this end, she works extensively with people of all ages through her studio Community Cello Works, a Suzuki-based learning community that also plays music from divers world traditions including improvisation as a foundation. Lisa performs in recital and chamber music settings from a similarly broad repertoire base, including Baroque performance, contemporary, Celtic, and Northern India along with the standard repertoire. She holds degrees from St. John's College (philosophy and mathematics) and the San Francisco Conservatory of music, is associate principal of the Roanoke Symphony and a former faculty member at Washington and Lee University.
Michael Mathews is a native of Greensboro, where he began cello studies at the age of five. He graduated with a Bachelor's and Master's in Music from the University of Southern California, studying with renowned Gabor Rejto. Other teachers include Zara Nelsova and Janos Starker. Among his many awards and prizes are the Tchaikovsky International Competition (quarter finalist), Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition (gold medal) and the Piatigorsky Seminar Prize. Mr. Mathews has been a member of both the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. As a chamber musician, he was invited twice to the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival. Prior to his return to North Carolina, he was active as a recording artist for motion pictures, television and records.
Maureen McDermott sustains an active career as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher. A native of New York, she has performed in France, Brazil, Mexico, St. Bartholemy and throughout the U.S. and Canada. Concerts in the U.S. have included performances at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall’s "Great Performers Series", Barge Music, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Van Cliburn Foundation in Texas. Ms. McDermott is a member of the McDermott Trio and the cello quartet "CELLO". An active chamber music performer, she has collaborated with many artists including Ani Kavafian, Paul Neubauer, Fred Sherry, Peter Wiley, Wu Han and Robert White. Ms. McDermott is a founding member and co-director of the Lighthouse Chamber Players, a group that performs throughout Cape Cod every summer. The highlight of the summers has been an annual collaboration with Bernard Greenhouse. She has participated in numerous music festivals including the Newport Music Festival, Bravo! Colorado, Mainly Mozart, Park City International Music Festival, Caramoor and Chautauqua. Ms. McDermott teaches cello at the Third Street Music School Settlement and the School for Strings in New York.
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Jonathan Miller chose to abandon his study of literature there and devote himself completely to the cello, training with Bernard Greenhouse, after attending Pablo Casals' master class at the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Miller is a 34-year veteran cellist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a post he continues to hold. Mr. Miller is also founder and music director of the Boston Artists' Ensemble, which has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. In 1980, during its first season, the Boston Artists' Ensemble performed twenty live concerts heard on WGBH-FM in Boston and simultaneously broadcast nationwide. The BAE continues to present concerts, now in its 25th season. Mr. Miller has taught at the New England Conservatory and at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Berkshire Music Center. Mr. Miller has recorded the Beethoven Cello Sonatas with the pianist Randall Hodgkinson for Centaur records. Mr. Miller is a member of the Gramercy Trio, which has just received a Copland Foundation Grant for its first CD, and received critical acclaim for its New York performances in the New York Times. Miller performs on his Matteo Goffriller cello built around the year 1698 in Venice. This cello was formerly owned and played by D'Archambeau of the Flonzaly String Quartet.
Douglas Moore is Professor of Music Emeritus at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and was cellist with the Williams Chamber Players and Williams Trio since 1970. He holds degrees from Indiana University, and The Catholic University of America. He has appeared with orchestras and in recital throughout the United States and Canada, and has been principal cellist with the Berkshire Symphony, Albany Symphony, Lake George Opera Festival and Great Music West Festival. His edition of the cello/piano music by Arthur Foote was published by A-R Editions. He has recordings on the Musical Heritage, Grand Prix and Liscio labels. Moore has published numerous arrangements for multiple celli, including the Stars and Stripes Forever for four celli (published by Presser). He plays a cello made in 1997 by Lawrence Wilke of Clinton, CT. He retired from teaching in 2004 after 34 years at Williams College.
Gal Nyska, born in Israel in 1984, started cello studies at the age of six with Mrs. Ludmila Stark at the Ness Ziona Conservatory. At the age of twelve, he was selected to be a member of the Young Israel Philharmonic Orchestra member and traveled to Moscow with the orchestra. A student of Mr. Leonid Zilper, a cellist of the North Carolina Symphony since 1998, Gal also took several lessons with Bonnie Thron, Principal cellist of the NC symphony since 2001. He has performed numerous recitals in Israel, Italy, and in the United States and participated in master classes with Lynn Harrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Matt Haimovitz, and Gary Hoffman. In addition, he has performed as soloist with the Durham Symphony, Raleigh Symphony, and the Chapel Hill Village Orchestra. His 2003 season included a performance of the Shostakovich Concerto No. 1 with the North Carolina Symphony. In addition, he attended the Yellow Barn Festival and School, Itzhak Perlman’s Chamber Music festival and was invited to the Kronberg Cello Festival in Germany for a master class with Gary Hoffman. In the 2002-2003 academic year Gal was a student of Norman Fischer at Rice University.
Janet Orenstein has enjoyed an active performing career both in the United States and abroad as a chamber musician, soloist and advocate of contemporary music. She is a founding member of the Guild Trio (winner of the 1988 USIA Artistic Ambassador Competition), and has toured with them extensively in Canada, Europe and the United States. Her trio career has included residencies at the Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, the Stony Brook Medical Center (funded by Chamber Music America), and the University of Virginia, where she was a performing and teaching member of the faculty for five years. As winner of the 1996 USIA Duo Competition, she toured seven African countries, giving recitals and master classes with pianist Christina Dahl. Ms. Orenstein has also appeared in New York's Alice Tully and Merkin Concert Halls, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as a member of the Persichetti String Quartet. A recipient of the Hannah and Leonard Stone Foundation Award from The Juilliard School, she received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees form that prestigious institution. Continuing 22
her studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Janet received her Doctoral degree as a student of Joyce Robbins. Her other principal teachers include Szymon Goldberg, Ivan Galamian and Christine Dethier.
Amit Peled was born and raised on Kibbutz Yizreel in Israel. After winning the first prize at the 1998 François Shapira competition, the most prestigious award for classical music in Israel, he embarked on an international career of the highest calibre. Mr. Peled has been featured guest artist in some of the world’s major concert halls such as: Wigmore Hall and St. Martin in the Fields, London, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall, NY City, Salle Gaveau, Paris, National Auditorium in Barcelona, Konzerthaus Berlin and Tel Aviv’s Man Auditorium. A former student of Emanuel Gruber, Shmuel Magen and Uri Vardi in Israel, Laurence Lesser and Bernard Greenhouse in the US and Boris Pergamenschikow in Germany, Mr. Peled joined the distinguished faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore in September 2003, becoming one of the youngest cello professors in the United States. Mr. Peled is a frequent guest at some of the most prestigious festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Schleswig – Holstein Festival, the Newport Music Festival and the Strings in the Mountains Festival. He joined violinist Midori in a gala concert for the America-Israel Cultural Foundation at Lincoln Centre’s Alice Tully Hall and performed for the Marlboro 50th Anniversary concerts in Washington and NY. His concerts and recordings can be heard frequently on the Israeli National Classical Music Radio & TV, NPR, WGBH Boston, WFMT Chicago, WQXR New York, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Deutschland Radio Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, Radio France and Swedish National Radio & TV. Mr. Peled is playing an Andrea Guarneri Cello ca. 1689.
Gina Pezzoli is currently pursuing her DMA in Cello Performance at UNCG with Brooks Whitehouse. She holds a MM in Cello Performance from UNCG and a BA in French and Music from the University of Virginia. She also works as Education Manager with the Greensboro Symphony, and teaches an undergraduate course in career development at UNCG. She often performs with the Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and North Carolina Symphonies, as well as the Carolina Ballet.
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. 23
Alexei Romanenko has, in past seasons, performed Barber’s Cello Sonata in “Musical Offering,” broadcast live on WGBH Boston. He has been featured in San Francisco’s “Old First Concerts,” and in Boston’s Jordan Hall. He has also been heard in New York at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Cambridge’s Pickmann Hall, Montgomery’s Davis Theatre, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. and in Chicago’s Preston Bradley Hall. He has been heard on the international broadcast of “Voice of America” in Russia, broadcast live nationwide on WFMT Chicago. Mr. Romanenko is the author of cadenzas for a number of cello concerti, Fantasia on a theme of Handel for unaccompanied cello as well as arrangements for cello, such as J.S. Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No. 2 and others. In recent seasons, he performed cello concerti of Haydn and Dvorak as orchestral soloist, and served as principal cellist with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in Boston’s Symphony Hall and in New York’s Carnegie Hall. Earlier, he was invited to appear at a gala concert at the Berlin Brandenburg Gates under the direction of Maestro M. Rostropovich (2000). Born in Vladivostok, Russia, Alexei Romanenko began playing the cello at the age of six and won First Prize in the Far-Eastern Competition when he was twelve. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory and in 1993 became a Laureate of the international program known as “New Names.” In 1993 he was awarded top prize in the Gnesina College Cello Competition. In 1998 Mr. Romanenko came to the United States on scholarship to study with Laurence Lesser and Bernard Greenhouse at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he received his Artist Diploma. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Presser Music Award in Boston and in the same year won First Prize at the 8th International Music Competition in Vienna, Austria. In April 2002, he won the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra Cello Fellowship Competition. A former resident of Boston, Mr. Romanenko currently resides in San Francisco and is a cello faculty at the San Francisco Institute of Musicand an adjunct professor at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama.
Astrid Schween has performed extensively throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. She appears frequently as a concerto soloist, most recently at the University of Massachusetts in a performance of Menachem Wiesenberg’s Concertino for Cello, and with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, at the Cleveland Institute, University of the South, Ohio University, and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. This summer, she will perform the Elgar Concerto on the opening concert at the renowned Fish Creek Festival in Wisconsin. As a member of the world-renowned Lark Quartet since 1989, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Lockenhaus, the Beethoven Festival in Moscow and many other prestigious venues. With her colleagues in the Lark, she has garnered numerous awards in international competition, the Shostakovich Gold Medal in Russia and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award among them. An active recitalist, Ms. Schween formed the Schween-Hammond Duo with pianist Gary Hammond in 2001. She also appears frequently with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Schween has conducted master classes in cello and chamber music at Juilliard, the Hartt School, Dartmouth and Columbus colleges, at the Festival da Camera in San Miguel de Allende, and the Summit Music Festival. She is on the faculty of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, the New York Youth Symphony, the School for Strings and is Assistant Professor of Cello at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she succeeds cellist Matt Haimovitz. Ms. Schween’s recordings include over a dozen CDs with the Lark Quartet for Arabesque, Decca/Argo, Point, CRI and New World labels, as well as numerous recordings of chamber music and works for cello and piano. An album of solo works will be released by Arabesque Records in 2006. Astrid Schween earned a BM and MM at the Juilliard School and was a pupil of Harvey Shapiro, Leonard Rose, Channing Robbins, Ardyth Alton, Bernard Greenhouse and Jacqueline Du Pre. While still a teenager, she performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Zubin Mehta. She is represented by MCM Artists.
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Inbal Segev has performed worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician.
Vox recently released her third solo CD, a collection of classical Jewish music
entitled Nigun. Following debuts with the Israel and Berlin Philharmonics
under the direction of Zubin Mehta, Ms. Segev has played with major
orchestras including the Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon,
Juilliard Orchestra and Bangkok Symphony. She gave her debut recital in
Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1997, and has collaborated with such artists as
Emanuel Ax and Pamela Franck. She claimed prizes at the Pablo Casals
International competition in Kronberg, the Paulo International competition in
Helsinki, and others. She has appeared on Radio France, Helsinki
Television, NPR, New York’s WQXR, and "Kol Hamusica" in Jerusalem. With
Isaac Stern’s endorsement, Ms. Segev came to the United States to study at age 16. She holds a
Bachelor's degree from Juilliard and Master's degree from Yale.
David Starkweather is professor of cello at the University of Georgia School
of Music in Athens. He was awarded a certificate of merit as semifinalist in
the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition. Growing up near San Francisco,
Starkweather attended the Eastman School of Music. This was followed by
graduate studies with cellist Bernard Greenhouse at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook, earning a doctorate degree in 1983. In 1985
Starkweather spent six months in Switzerland with Pierre Fournier, receiving
the French cellist's accolade as "one of the best cellists of his generation."
Two CDs with pianist Evgeny Rivkin are available, featuring sonatas by
Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Brahms, and Britten.
Starkweather’s publications include articles in American String Teacher and
Strings, and an edition of two Locatelli sonatas published by Artaria Editions, Wellington, New
Zealand. His cello is a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume from c.1830.
Ian Swensen is one of the few musicians to have been awarded top prize
in both the International Violin Competition and the Chamber Music
Competition (as first violinist of the Meliora String Quartet) of the Walter W.
Naumberg Foundation. His string quartet also won the Coleman and
Fischoff competitions. A native of New York, he received his training at the
Juilliard School with Dorothy DeLay and at the Eastman School of Music
with Donald Weilerstein. Mr. Swensen is Head of the String Department at
the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he has taught since 1990
and has wonderful students from over ten different countries. He has been
on the faculty at the Eastman School of Music, Florida State University, and
Oberlin Conservatory. Swensen has appeared in recital venues such as:
Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, Harvard University and the Corcoran
Gallery, and has been featured soloist with the Boston Philharmonic, the Toulouse Symphony of
France, the Boston Pops, the Longy Chamber Orchestra, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and Oakland
Symphonies, the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Santa Fe, and the New Zealand Chamber
Orchestra. His most recent collaborations have been with members of the Juilliard and Cleveland
Quartets, the Smithsonian-Axelrod String Quartet, Menachem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Paul Katz,
Robert Mann, Bernard Greenhouse and Yo-Yo Ma. This past year Ian performed over 50 concerts
playing the concerto and chamber music repertoire of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Bartók. His
most recent tours have included concertos and recitals in Southern Japan and leading the New
Zealand Chamber Orchestra on an eight-city tour throughout New Zealand performing concertos
and chamber music.
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Gustavo Tavares, Brazilian cellist, was assistant and student of Bernard Greenhouse at Rutgers University, while working towards his doctoral degree. He was previously for many years a student of Antonio Janigro at the Stuttgart Hochschüle in Germany. Dr. Tavares is considered a specialist on Latin American music, and as a member of the ensemble Triángulo, he has presented this repertoire throughout the world. He is a versatile musician, performing frequently with both classical, jazz and popular artists, and his collaborations with jazz-star Paquito D´Rivera led to several CD recordings, one of them having been nominated for a Grammy Award. He has appeared as soloist as well as conductor with orchestras such as the Orchestra d’Archi Italiana, the Oslo Chamber Orchestra, and the Philharmonics of Johannesburg and Maribor, among others. As an arranger, he has had his work recorded by artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and the Buenos Aires String Quartet. In 2004, Dr. Tavares served as a jury member at the Antonio Janigro International Competition, held in Zagreb, Croatia.
Qiang Tu won the San Angelo (TX) Symphony Young Artist Competition in 1987 and has since established himself as a multifaceted artist much in demand. Tu was awarded the Grand Prize in the Downey Symphony Young Artist Competition of Los Angeles the following year. In 1994, he
served as Principal Cellist of the Princeton Chamber Symphony. Mr. Tu joined the New York Philharmonic in November 1995. After making his solo debut at age 13 in Beijing, Mr. Tu began a two-year engagement as soloist with one of China’s major symphony orchestras. At age 17, he was awarded England’s Menuhin Prize as a member of the China Youth String Quartet, and was later selected by the Chinese government to study in the Sydney Conservatory. In that capacity, he toured the country giving chamber-music and solo recitals, including a concert broadcast live from the Sydney Opera House. The culmination of his Australian tenure came when he won Sydney’s Parlings Award for Music. Returning to Beijing, he was appointed, at age 20, Associate Professor of Cello at the Central Conservatory. Concurrently, he became Principal Cellist of the China Youth Symphony and concertized with the orchestra in Switzerland, West Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, and Great Britain. His solo album, Meditation, was distributed by the China Record Company. In the United States, Mr. Tu has appeared in Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and other major cities. Mr. Tu’s appearances also include six recitals in Taiwan, including one at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, in addition to recitals in Japan, Hawaii, and at Weill Recital Hall in New York. His extensive chamber music appearances have included performances with the group, Elysium, at Weill Recital Hall; in Hawaii; and at the Hellenic-American Cultural Association of Colorado. He has performed at chamber music festivals in Maine, played cello works and chamber music in Korea, and has appeared with Lukas Foss in chamber works at Weill Recital Hall and at the Stephanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts in Wisconsin. Mr. Tu has performed on a live broadcast on WNYC, and appears frequently with the New York Philharmonic Ensembles chamber music series at Merkin Concert Hall. Mr. Tu earned his Bachelor of Arts from China’s Central Conservatory. In 1990, he received his master’s degree from Rutgers University, where he studied with Bernard Greenhouse. Other past teachers include Zara Nelsova, Geoffrey Rutkowski, Lois Simpson, Paul Tortelier, and Zeguang Tu.
Beth Vanderborgh is principal cellist of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, co-principal of the Carolina Chamber Symphony, and cellist of the Sims-Fadial-Vanderborgh 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. 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. 26
Joel Wenger, a graduate of Appalachian State University, holds degrees in both Cello Performance and Music Education. While at ASU, Mr. Wenger studied under Dr. Kenneth Lurie and served as principal cellist of the University Orchestra, with whom he performed the Elgar Concerto as a winner of the Concerto/Aria competition. In 2001, Mr. Wenger joined the Asheville Symphony where he played for two seasons. He is now a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he studies with Dr. Brooks Whitehouse. Upon graduation, he plans to teach and pursue orchestral positions.
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.
Tilmann Wick draws on concert experience gained with Claudio Abbado, Herbert von Karajan, Sir Georg Solti, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Rudolf Buchbinder, Bernd Glemser, Pascal Devoyon, Christian Zacharias, Shlomo Mintz, Dong-Suk Kang and Frank Peter Zimmermann. Highlights in his career include Dvořák‘s Cello Concerto with the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester, Tchaikovsky‘s Rococo Variations with the Bavarian State Orchestra of Munich, and the world premiere of Ernst Helmuth Flammer‘s cello concerto Capriccio with the MDR Symphony Orchestra of Leipzig. Further focal points include performances in New York‘s Carnegie Hall, in Boston, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Montréal, Santiago de Chile, in Melbourne, Seoul, Pretoria, Tunis, Casablanca, Alger, London, Brussels, Paris, San Sebastián, Novosibirsk, Krasnojarsk, Tomsk, Lucerne, in Zürich‘s Tonhalle, Berlin‘s Schauspielhaus, Frankfurt‘s Alte Oper, Munich‘s Herculessaal, and Cologne‘s Philharmonie. His debuts were also memorable occasions, as at the Salzburg Festival, the Berlin Festival (at the invitation of Claudio Abbado), the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the “Musiktreffen St. Moritz”, the Portogruaro Music Festival, the Dartington International Festival of Music, and Spain‘s Festival Quincena Musical. Wick’s recordings produced by EMI classics, MD+G, Audite and Ambitus, are treasured by connoisseurs the world over. His Ambitus CD of Britten‘s complete works for cello solo documents his pronounced sense of tone color and tonal resource. He teaches masterclasses in the USA, Canada, Korea, Australia, Italy, England, France and Germany, and at the Hanover Music Academy, where he assumed the cello professorship in 1998. His cello is a 1692 Grancino from Milan. 27
Brent Wissick is on the faculty of the UNC at Chapel Hill where he teaches cello, viola da gamba and early music ensembles. A member of Ensemble Chanterelle and the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, he is a frequent guest with American Bach Soloists, Folger Consort, Concert Royal, Boston Bach Ensemble, Smithsonian Chamber Players and Dallas Bach Society as well as Collegio di Musica Sacra in Poland. A graduate of the Crane School of Music at Potsdam College, NY and Penn State University (MM cello, 1978) he also studied with John Hsu at Cornell University and was an NEH Fellow at Harvard in the 1993 Beethoven Quartet Seminar. He is currently President of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. Mr. Wissick's concerts and teaching have taken him throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He can be heard on several record labels including Koch International, Albany and Titanic. His recording of Sonatas and Cantatas by Bononcini was recently released by Centaur and his online video article about them will be available later this year.
Ināra Zandmane, born in the capital of Latvia, Rīga, started to play the piano at the age of six. Zandmane holds a BM and MM from Latvian Academy of Music, MM in piano performance from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and DMA in piano performance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She has been the staff accompanist at the UNCG since 2003. She also served as the official accompanist for the MTNA Southern Division competition and the North American Saxophone Alliance conference in 2004. Zandmane has performed in recitals in St. Paul, Kansas City, Cleveland, St. Louis, and New York, as well as in many Republics of the former Soviet Union. In April 2000, she was invited to perform at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. Ināra Zandmane has appeared as a soloist with the Latvian National Orchestra, Liepāja Symphony, Latvian Academy of Music Student Orchestra, SIU Symphony, and UMKC Conservatory Symphony and Chamber orchestras. She has performed with various chamber ensembles at the International Chamber Music Festivals in Rīga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Helsinki (Finland), and Norrtelje (Sweden). For a few last years, Zandmane has worked together with the Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks. She has given Latvian premieres of his two latest piano pieces, Landscapes of the Burnt-out Earth and The Spring Music, and recorded the first of them on the Conifer Classics label.
Leonid Zilper was born in Moscow, Russia and received the Master of Music degree in Performance from Moscow Conservatory, where he graduated with honors and won an all-Soviet String quartet competition. Under the sponsorship of members of the famous Borodin Quartet, his group was chosen to tour internationally with the Stars of the Russian Ballet. Since then, he has performed with a wide variety of chamber music groups, the Moscow Symphony, the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, and throughout the former Soviet Union, Europe, Australia, Africa, South America, and Asia. Mr. Zilper immigrated to the United States in 1976 and shortly thereafter joined the North Carolina Symphony where he currently holds the Nell Hirschberg Endowed Chair. Mr. Zilper has appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of Virginia and the Raleigh Civic Symphony. In addition, he continues to perform extensively throughout the Southeast in recital and chamber music concerts.
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The UNCG School of Music recognizes the charter members of
The Cello Celebration Champions
Elizabeth Beilman
Alan Black
Dr. E. Joseph LeBauer
Fritz Lin
Barbara Stein Mallow
Louisa H. Marks
Nancy L. Shane
Merchandise at the Greenhouse Celebration
Friday — Alumni House:
Pasewicz Stringed Instruments will be available for repairs, adjustments, and maintenance.
Nicholas Delbanco’s The Countess of Stanlein will be on sale at the 4:00 Greenhouse/Delbanco presentation.
Saturday/Sunday — School of Music, Room 221:
Pasewicz Stringed Instruments will be available for repairs, adjustments and maintenance. Greenhouse’s biography, Bowed Arts, will be on sale here as well.
Saturday/Sunday — School of Music, Recital Hall Atrium:
Chez Harmonique Press, run by Martha Gerschefski, will be selling pedagogical sheet music.
Latham Music will be selling sheet music and scores, especially that of multi-cello music.
Catalogues and order information will also be on display for publications by Douglas Moore, Musicelli Publications (transcriptions by Laszlo Varga) and the new Greenhouse/Dillingham Edition of the J.S. Bach gamba sonatas, published by Presser.
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Greenhouse
Mr. Jerry Pasewicz – Pasewicz String Instruments
Bonnie Thron
Litsa D. Tsitsera
In honor of her mother, Helen Dermatas
Charles G. Wendt
We are grateful to the Cello Celebration Champions whose generous contributions helped
to make the Greenhouse Celebration possible.
Please consider joining this very special group of friends by sending a check to the
UNCG School of Music, Cello Celebration Champions Fund,
PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402.
the
celebration
Questions and Information
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the Greenhouse Celebration staff. There will be an event volunteer at each event and will be stationed at the registration table in the lobby at all times.
Tickets
Registration fees for the Greenhouse Celebration cover all events for the days purchased. (A Saturday ticket will cover all events for Saturday only; a three-day pass will cover all events for the weekend) Any extra or individual tickets may be purchased at the box office, which will be open one hour before each concert.
Lost and Found
The Greenhouse Celebration registration table will maintain a lost and found. If you find or lose any item(s), please notify the staff at the registration table. If possible, any property found on the convention site after the show ends will be returned to the owner(s). The UNCG School of Music assumes no responsibility for lost items.
Food & Beverages
In accordance with University policies, food or drink are only allowed in the common areas of the building. No food or beverages will be permitted in the practice rooms, library, recital halls, lecture halls, or classrooms. Please note that because the Greenhouse Celebration will have minors as participants, no alcoholic beverages will be served at any of the receptions or luncheons. 30
Smoking
The UNCG School of Music is a smoke-free facility. There is no smoking allowed inside the building.
Hearing Impaired Information
Performance halls within the UNCG School of Music are equipped with a listening assistance
system. Patrons needing such assistance should contact an usher in the lobby.
Emergency Exits
Patrons are encouraged to take note of the exits located throughout the UNCG School of Music
Recital Hall and Organ Hall. In an emergency, please use the nearest exit, which may be behind
you or different from the one through which you entered.
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.
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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/
Raleigh 919-858-0429
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