School of Music
U N C G
James Roueché
Memorial Recital
Thursday, November 1, 2007
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
Piano Quintet in c minor (1862) Alexander Borodin
Andante (1833-1887)
Scherzo: Allegro non troppo
Finale: Allegro moderato
John Fadial, violin
Fabián Lopéz, violin
Scott Rawls, viola
Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello
Andrew Harley, piano
Scène Andalouse, Op.7, Sextet for Viola Piano and String Quartet Joaquín Turina
Crépuscule du soir (1882-1949)
A la fenêtre
Scott Rawls, viola
Andrew Harley, piano
John Fadial, violin
Fabián Lopéz, violin
Simon Ertz, viola
Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello
Intermission
Piano Trio in e minor, Op. 67 Dmitri Shostakovich
Andante (1906-1975)
Allegro con brio
Largo
Allegretto - Adagio
Fabián Lopéz, violin
Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello
Andrew Harley, piano
Gifts in memory of Jim may be made to either of the following two funds:
The James L. Roueché and Willard S. "Boots" Smith Music Endowment for International
Students or to The William F. Black Scholarship Endowment in Jazz Studies
Both were established in honor of Jim.
Please call or e-mail Leslie Daisy at 336-334-3154 or
leslie.daisy@uncg.edu with questions.
In Memoriam
James Leo Roueché
1923 - 2007
A native of Salisbury, North Carolina, Jim was born on Groundhog Day, February 2, 1923. He
graduated from Guilford College and Oklahoma State A&M with degrees in Physics and
Advanced Mechanical Engineering. A combat infantry veteran of World War II, a charter member
of the Battle of Normandy, and a member of the Military Order of the Ardennes, Jim was a highly
decorated veteran, having been awarded the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.
As a young man, Jim enjoyed scuba diving and was also an avid tennis player, winning many
singles tournaments, and doubles competitions, partnering with his beloved wife, Mollie, the
mother of his three children, Adele, Jean, and James III. Jim retired from the Actuarial
Department of Jefferson Pilot Corporation. He had a huge record collection and never tired of
listening to the big band music of his youth. He was also a member of the United States Tennis
Association, the Patriot Society, and the Cousteau Society.
After Mollie’s death in 1995, UNCG, particularly the School of Music, filled the empty hours and
attracted Jim’s attention. For the last eleven years of his life, Jim became an enthusiastic
advocate and supporter of the marvelous work being done and the talented students at the
UNCG School of Music. He had a special affection for the international students majoring in
music, welcoming them into his home, attending their recitals, and offering them grandfatherly
assistance and support. He continued to receive visits, letters, and phone calls from many of
these young people long after they graduated and left campus.
Jim was especially proud of the two endowments established at the School of Music in his honor:
The William F. Black Jazz Studies Scholarship Endowment and the James L. Roueché and
Willard S. “Boots” Smith Music Endowment for International Students. Until ill health made it too
difficult, Jim faithfully attended every musical program on the School of Music calendar and was
named an honorary member of the faculty in 2001. He died peacefully at home on Tuesday,
March 20, 2007. Tonight’s concert is dedicated in his memory.
Photo by Stacey Haines
Performers
Simon Ertz joined the Degas Quartet in June 2002; before that he
was
pursuing a doctoral degree in viola performance at Michigan State
University where he was also a teaching assistant. He received his
undergraduate degree from the Royal Northern College of Music in
Manchester, where he was awarded the Thomas Barret memorial
prize for viola. By the time Simon graduated from the RNCM he was
working with orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic, Northern
Chamber Orchestra, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
After two years working in the UK, Simon moved to Michigan to
continue
his education. As well as completing his Master's degree at
Michigan State University, he served as assistant principal viola of
the Greater Lansing Symphony and played in the orchestra's string
quartet.
During the quartet’s residency in Syracuse, Simon was a member of the
Syracuse Symphony and played at Carnegie Hall with them in April 2003.
As a member of the Degas Quartet Simon has performed in venues across the country, including
the Aspen Music Festival and the Library of Congress where he performed on their "Tuscan-
Medici" Stradivarius. The quartet has part time residencies at both Appalachian State University
and the UNC Wilmington where they perform concerts, give classes and do extensive outreach in
the community, funded by a three-year grant from Chamber Music America.
Simon Ertz plays a viola made by his brother, Neil Ertz.
Other positions in North Carolina include principal viola of the Oleander Chamber Orchestra and
Winston Salem Symphony, Greensboro Symphony and regular substitute work with Charlotte
Symphony
John Fadial, associate professor of violin, is familiar to Greensboro
audiences as concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony
Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Having
performed on four continents as a United States Information Service
Artistic Ambassador, Fadial maintains a vigorous schedule as
soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher. He has
appeared at the Smithsonian Institution, the Phillips Collection, and
the Kennedy Center, with numerous engagements at summer
festivals in Aspen, Banff, Brevard, Eastern, Heidelberg (Germany),
Mirecourt (France), Costa Rica, and Brazil. He has shared the
stage in chamber music collaborations with pianist Jon Nakamatsu,
harpsichordist Anthony Newman, cellist Paul Katz, violist John
Graham and bandoneon virtuoso David Alsina of the New York
Tango Trio. He has performed widely throughout the U.S. and
Europe since 1997 as the violinist of the Chesapeake Piano Trio.
Recent seasons have featured concerts throughout the U.S.,
France and Brazil, including the French premiere, with cellist Beth Vanderborgh, of William
Bolcom’s Suite for Violin and Cello as well as chamber music performances with Bernard
Greenhouse, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Lynn Harrell, Bella Davidovich, and the Stanislas Sextette.
Fadial’s recent recording of the chamber music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on the Centaur label,
with members of UNCG’s Artist Faculty Chamber Players, was a Featured New Release at
TowerRecords.com for Spring of 2005, and deemed “not to be missed” by American Record
Guide. In October of 2005, he gave the world premiere of Arthur Gottschalk’s Concerto for Violin
and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, as part of the Society of Composers International Conference.
Fadial hold degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts (BM), the Eastman School of
Music (MM) and the University of Maryland (DMA).
English pianist Andrew Harley began his musical studies at the
famous Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, England. He
continued his education at Oxford University, the Royal Northern
College of Music and the University of Southern California. Since
emigrating to America, he has held positions at the University of
California Los Angeles, the University of Southern California and
the University of California Santa Barbara, where he was Head of
Accompanying. In addition to these positions, he has also held
numerous posts at a variety of summer schools. For five years, he
was Director of Chamber Music for the International Institute for
Young Musicians and more recently was Associate Faculty at the
Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. He has been invited
to join the faculty at both the American Institute of Musical Studies
in Graz as well as the University of Miami Summer Program in
Salzburg.
Dr. Harley has given solo and chamber music recitals in Canada, Europe, Scandinavia and the
US and has recorded numerous CDs for the Centaur Label. Among his recent recital partners are
Yana Deshkova (Concertmaster, Aalborg Symphony), James Dunham (Cleveland String
Quartet), Romain Garioud (Prizewinner, Tchaikovsky Competition 2001), Roeland Gehland
(Concertmaster, Arnheim Symphony), Carolyn Hove (Solo English Horn, Los Angeles
Philharmonic), Elisabeth Kufferath (Concertmaster, Bamberg Symphony), Gordon Hunt (Guest
Principal Oboe, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), Joel Krosnick (Juilliard String Quartet), Aida-
Carmen Soanea (1st Prize winner, Valentino-Bucchi International Viola Competition) and Atle
Sponberg (Concertmaster, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra). In 2005, he gave his Carnegie Hall
debut and in March 2007, he made his Washington debut at The Library of Congress. He recently
gave recitals and master classes at Indiana University - Bloomington and the Royal Northern
College of Music in England. In July 2007, he returned from Düsseldorf, where he was the
featured pianist at the Kamp-Lintfort International Chamber Music Festival, a position he has held
for the past three years. The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung recently described him as “a
soloist who understands how to blend within an ensemble with excellence, yet without
subjugating himself. Pearls of gold met with a diamond.” Future engagements include invitations
to give classes at The New England Conservatory, The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music
and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dr. Harley is currently an Associate
Professor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where he serves as Director of
Accompanying and Piano Chamber Music.
Fabián López, Assistant Professor of Violin, is a native of
Málaga, Spain. He started playing violin at the age of
eleven. Upon graduation from the Conservatorio Superior
de Música de Málaga, he received a scholarship from the
Hispanic-American Joint Commitee/Fullbright
Commission, to study further at Colgate University. This
was the beginning of an ongoing process that has lasted
for ten years. His principal teachers have been: Nicolae
Duca, Laura Klugherz, Kevork Mardirossian, and Camilla
Wicks. Fabián has appeared as soloist with orchestras
such as: Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville, Orquesta Ciudad de Córdoba, Chamber
Orchestra of Andalucía, Orquesta Filarmónia de Málaga, Orquesta Ciudad de Almeria, “Manuel
de Falla” Chamber Orchestra, etc. In the pedagogical terrain, Fabián has given courses and
master classes for the Youth Orchestra of Andalucía (O.J.A.), and in Granada, Adra, Cartagena,
West Virginia University, Mercer University, Louisiana State University, and Hebert Springs. As a
jury member he has been in the I International Violin Competition “Violines por la Paz”, in Jaen,
Auditions for Violin Professors in Spanish National Conservatories, and The Concerto
Competition of the Superior Conservatory of Music of Granada. Fabián taught at the Royal
Conservatory of Music “Manuel de Falla” of Cádiz, Spain (1999-2004). During his studies at the
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Fabián had the opportunity of playing a concert with the
Guarnerius del Gesu that belonged to J. Heifetz. He is the lucky owner of a violin by Ioan
Guillami, 1726, which is called “little strad” among friends. He graduated from Baylor University
(M.M.), studying with Bruce Berg, and from The University of Michigan (D.M.A.), studying with
Andrew Jennings. He is happily married and lives with his wife, Sinthia Pérez, a terrific harpist,
and his dog Max.
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.
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.
