Pamela Coats
clarinet
Alumni Recital
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
5:30 pm
Organ Hall, Music Building
„Dancing Solo“
Pamela Coats, Clarinet +Photography
Design: Barbara Esser
Part One
Libby Larsen Dancing Solo
(b. 1950) With Shadows
Pictures: Berlin: Kulturforum
J.S. Bach Partita Nr. 2 in d-moll BWV 1004
(1685-1950) Allemande
Pictures: Berlin: Gemäldegalerie Museum (Painting Gallery Museum)
Filippino Lippi „Allegory of Music“
Corrente
Picture: Meißen: Castle Meißen Porcelain Factory
Giga
Picture: Meißen: Castle Meißen Porcelain Factory
Part Two
Libby Larsen Dancing Solo
Eight to the bar
Pictures: Belgium: Lüttich Central Station
Louis Cahuzac Arlequin
(1880-1960)
Pictures: Brüssels: In transit
Claude Debussy Syrinx
(1862-1918)
Pictures: Munich: Alte Pinakothek
„Pan, the goat-legged Shepard-God“, 160 A.D.
Ilse Fromm-Michaels Stimmungen eines Fauns, Op.11
(1888-1986) Klage/Lament
Pictures: Munich: Alte Pinakothek
„An intoxicated Bacchus“, 330 B.C.
Schalkslaune/Mischievous Caprice
Picture: The Royal Museum of beautiful Arts in Belgium
Schwermut/Melancholy
Picture: Munich: Alte Pinakothek
„An intoxicated Elder“, 200 B.C.
Picture: Tiffany Glass Museum, Chicago Navy Pier
Part Three
Libby Larsen Dancing Solo
In ten slow circles
Pictures: Berlin: Sony Center
Chicago: Chicago Cultural Center
Béla Kovács Hommages á Manuel de Falla
(b.1937)
Pictures: Meißen: Castle Meißen: Porcelain Factory „Don Quixote“
Baden-Baden: Casino
Excerpt „Death in the Afternoon“ Ernest Hemingway
Narrator: Joe Bartz
Part Four
Libby Larsen Dancing Solo
Flat out
Pictures:
German Rail between Osnabrück and Hamburg
Chicago: In transit
Regina Baiocchi Karibu
(b.1956) When
Pictures: Brüssels: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Peter Paul Rubens „Four Studies of a Head of a Moor“
Berlin: Gemäldegalerie Museum (Painting Gallery Museum)
Hendrick Heerschop „The Magi King Caspar“
Munich: Castle Nymphenburg
Chicago: Tiffany Glass Museum, Navy Pier
Paul Harvey Three Etudes on Themes of Gershwin
(b.1935) I got rhythm
Brüssels: In transit
Hamburg: „Dancing Building“
Summertime
Köln: Painting
Marion Wenge „Icicles“
It Ain´t Neccessarily So
Chicago: In transit
Brüssels: In transit
Yves Lohé „Sculptures“: massive Bronze
Brüssels: Museum of Musical Instruments
With her versatile performances,
Pamela Coats, clarinettist, has made a
name for herself in Europe as well as in
the United States, where she has
received wonderful reviews: “an
impressive personality and a brilliant
clarinettist”- Orchesterverein Zürich,
“amazing musical ability”- Dattelner
Morgenpost, “Ms. Coats breathed life into
these extraordinary distinguished works”-
DOMKultur Forum, “Ms. Coats has a
spectacular, passionate dexterity”-
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, “A
highlight of the concert was the shining
performance of the solo clarinettist, Pamela
Coats, in the concerto “Introduction and
Rondo Capriccioso” from C. Saint-Saens”-
Stadtzeitung Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.
Highlights of her solo career include performances in the “Orpheus
Classical Music Series” as well as the “Dame Myra Hess Memorial
Concert Series” in Chicago which is broadcasted live on WFMT-FM
Classical Radio and Channel 25 TV. An active chamber musician, Ms.
Coats has participated in several projects with performances in such
halls as the Beethovenhalle (Bonn), Berliner Philharmonic, Dachau
Schlosserkonzert and Severance Hall collaborating with such artists as
the Vardanyan Quartet (London) as well as the International Chamber
Artists (Chicago). She was also selected to participate in the Yehudi
Menuhin project “Live Music Now” in North Rhine Westphalia. As an
orchestra musician, Pamela Coats has performed in both opera as well as
symphonic orchestras and has participated in such projects as the West
Deutsche Radio Musikfest as well as obtained the position of principal
clarinet of the Rome Festival Orchestra.
Pamela Coats has earned degrees from the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro (Bachelor of Arts), DePaul University (Master of Music) as
well as the Conservatory of Music in Cologne, (Artist´s Diploma)
Germany. Her teachers have included Ulf Rodenhäuser (former
principal clarinettist, Berliner Philharmonic and SWR Orchestra), Adolf
Münten (co-principal clarinettist, Düsseldorf Symphony), John Bruce
Yeh (co-principal clarinettist, Chicago Symphony), Dr. Kelly Burke
(principal clarinettist, Greensboro Symphony). Ms. Coats has also
attended several masterclasses under the tutelage of Alfred Prinz, Larry
Combs, Eduard Brunner, Ralph Manno, as well as with Colin Lawson
(director and clarinet professor, Royal College of Music- London).
