2004-03-18 Czech Please [recital program]

              Ināra Zandmane is the staff accompanist at UNCG. She holds the 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 where her
piano professor was Richard Cass. Ms. 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 and
has appeared as a soloist with the Latvian National Orchestra, Liepaja
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). Recent performances
include collaboration with the Kansas City Chorale on Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer (2002),
appearances with the contemporary music ensemble New Ear (2001 and 2003), and
recitals with Michel Debost, Paul Coletti, and Jim Walker. For a few last years, Ināra
Zandmane has worked together with Latvian composer Peteris 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.
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.
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Dr. John J. Deal, Dean
UNCG School of Music
P.O. Box 26167
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Artist Faculty Chamber Series
presents
Czech, please!
Thursday, March 18, 2004
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
Commentary by Doryl Jensen, UNCG Honors Program
Quartet (1947) Bohuslav Martinů
Moderato poco allegro (1890-1959)
Adagio-Andante poco moderato-Poco Allegro
Mary Ashley Barret, oboe
John Fadial, violin
Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Romance in F minor, Op. 11 for violin and piano Antonín Dvořák
Andante con moto (1841-1904)
John Fadial, violin
Andrew Harley, piano
I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY, Song cycle for Soprano voice, Ellwood Derr
Alto Saxophone, and Piano. On the poems by children who were incarcerated (b. 1932)
in the Nazi ghetto for Jews in Terezín, Czechoslovakia (1942-1944) and who
died in Auschwitz before the end of October 1944.
Prologue: Terezín
The Butterfly
The Old Man
Fear
The Garden
Carla LeFevre, soprano
Steve Stusek, alto saxophone
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Intermission
Ricercare Domenico Gabrielli
(1659-1690)
Blackbird John Lennon
(1940-1980)
Dennis AsKew, tuba
Duo for Violin and Violoncello, Op. 7 Zoltán Kodály
Allegro serioso, non troppo (1882-1967)
Adagio
Maestoso e largamente — Presto
John Fadial, violin
Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello
_____
The hall is equipped with a listening assistance system.
Patrons needing such assistance should contact an usher in the lobby.
Patrons are encouraged to take note of the exits located on all levels of
the auditorium. In an emergency, please use the nearest exit, which may
be behind you or different from the one through which you entered.
Steve Stusek is Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro. He performs frequently with Dutch
accordion player Otine van Erp in the duo 2Track, was director of Big
Band Utrecht and is a founding member of the Bozza Mansion
Project, an Amsterdam-based new music ensemble. The list of
composers who have written music for him include Academy Award
winner John Addison. His many awards include a Medaille d’Or in
Saxophone Performance from the Conservatoire de la Région de
Paris, winner of the Saxophone Concerto competition at Indiana
University, Semi-finalist in the Concert Artists Guild Competition,
Vermont Council on the Arts prize for Artistic Excellence, and Finalist
in the Nederlands Impressariaat Concours for ensembles. His teachers include Daniel
Deffayet, Jean-Yves Formeau, Eugene Rousseau, David Baker, Joseph Wytko and Larry
Teal. He is a Yamaha performing artist.
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.
Brooks Whitehouse (BA, Harvard College, MMA and DMA, SUNY
Stony Brook) is UNCG’s new Cello Professor. He comes to
Greensboro from the University of Florida where he spent a year as
Assistant Professor of Cello and Chamber Music. From 1996-2001
he and his wife, violinist Janet Orenstein, were artists in residence at
the University of Virginia in Charlottesville as members of The Guild
Trio. In his thirteen years as cellist of the Guild Trio Mr. Whitehouse
has performed and taught chamber music throughout the US and
abroad, holding Artists-in-Residence positions at SUNY Stony Brook,
the Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, and The Tanglewood Music
Center. This ensemble was a winner of both the "USIA Artistic Ambassador" and
"Chamber Music Yellow Springs" competitions, and with the group Mr. Whitehouse has
performed throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Norway, Turkey, the
former Yugoslavia, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Portugal, France and Australia.
Andrew Willis performs in the United States and abroad on pianos
of every period. His recordings include the “Hammerklavier” and
other Beethoven sonatas for Claves, as part of the first Beethoven
sonata cycle on period instruments, a project directed by Malcolm
Bilson and presented in concert at New York, Utrecht, Florence, and
Palermo. His recordings of Schubert lieder and Rossini songs with
soprano Julianne Baird are available on Vox, Newport Classics, and
Albany records, and he has recorded music of Rochberg, Schickele,
Ibert, and others with flutist Sue Ann Kahn.
Dennis AsKew currently serves as Associate Professor of Tuba,
Euphonium and Music Education at UNCG Greensboro. Additionally,
he serves as President-Elect/Vice President for the International Tuba
Euphonium Association, and recently hosted the international
conference for that organization in 2002. He has been active as a
performer, having given solo recitals throughout the United States,
Canada, Italy, Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands. Most recently
he performed at the Southeastern Tuba/Euphonium Conference in
Tuscaloosa, AL. Dr. AsKew also performs with the Market Street
Brass, UNCG’s faculty Brass Quintet.
Mary Ashley Barret holds a B.M. from Eastman, an M.M. from
Baylor and a D.M. with a certificate in the Pedagogy of Music Theory
from Florida State University. Her mentors have included Richard
Killmer, Doris DeLoach and Eric Ohlsson. An active performer, Barret
is currently a member of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and is
principal oboe in the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra. She has
appeared as soloist with the Florida State Wind Orchestra, the UNCG
Orchestra, and the Salisbury Symphony and has presented numerous
guest recitals and master classes throughout the United States,
Caribbean, New Zealand and Australia. Barret is a member of the
EastWind Trio d'Anches and can be heard on the recent recording "Out of the Woods:
Twentieth-Century French Wind Trios" with TreVent.
Kelly Burke holds the B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Eastman
School of Music and the D.M.A. from the University of Michigan. An
active performer, Burke is the principal clarinetist of the Greensboro
Symphony Orchestra and has appeared in recitals and as a soloist
with symphony orchestras throughout the United States, Canada,
Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and Russia. As a member of the
Mallarmé Chamber Players, the EastWind Trio d'Anches, and the
Cascade Wind Quintet, Burke is frequently heard in chamber music
settings. She has recorded for Centaur, Telarc, and Arabesque
labels. Burke has received several teaching awards, including
UNCG's Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, the School of Music Outstanding Teacher
Award, and has been named three times to Who's Who Among America's Teachers. She
is the author of numerous pedagogical articles and the critically acclaimed book Clarinet
Warm-Ups: Materials for the Contemporary Clarinetist.
John Fadial holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the
Arts, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Maryland.
As a United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador, he has
toured extensively on four continents. Recent recital appearances
have included performances at the Phillips Collection; the Kennedy
Center; the Sale Poirel, Nancy, France; and the American University
in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. A highly successful teacher, his students
has been accepted by such prestigious institutions as Oberlin
Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, the Eastman School, The
Cleveland Institute, and the National Repertory Orchestra. They also
have included winners of the Pittsburgh Symphony Young Artist Solo Competition; and
winners and finalists in the MTNA National Competitions. John Fadial currently serves as
concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, as well as violinist of the
Chesapeake Trio and the McIver Ensemble. His mentors include Elaine Richey, Charles
Castleman, and Arnold Steinhardt.
Andrew Harley is Associate Professor of Accompanying in the School of
Music at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He received a B.A.
and M.A. from Oxford University, the Artist Diploma from the Royal
Northern College of Music in Manchester and a D.M.A from the University
of Southern California. He has been heard in recital throughout Europe
and the States in solo, accompanying and chamber music performances.
Previous appointments have included the University of California Los
Angeles, the University of Southern California and the University of
California Santa Barbara where he was Head of Accompanying. In
addition to these positions, he has also held 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 featured on live radio and television
broadcasts and currently serves as the official accompanist for a number of national and
international competitions and conferences. Recent CD recordings include chamber music of
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor as well as Russian music for cello and piano with cellist Brooks
Whitehouse. Future performances are scheduled throughout the United States and Australia. Dr.
Harley is Director of the Accompanying Program at UNCG.
Doryl Jensen's graduate education was in German and comparative
literature at Brigham Young University and then at The Johns Hopkins
University. He has lived extensively in Austria and other parts of Central
Europe. He teaches and lectures on topics related to the art,
architecture and music of the region. With the help of colleagues at
UNCG and elsewhere, he directs annual trips to the Salzburg Music
Festival and to other parts of Europe.
Carla LeFevre holds the B.M.Ed. in voice and horn from Central
Missouri State University and M.A. and D.M.A. degrees in performance
and pedagogy from the University of Iowa. She has performed
extensively in oratorios and operas, including leading roles in The Magic
Flute, La Bohème, The Turn of the Screw, and Handel's Agrippina, which
she performed at the Festival di Musica Antica in Urbino, Italy, and the
Classical Music Seminar in Eisenstadt, Austria. An active recitalist,
LeFevre was selected as the 1991National Winner of the Gertrude
Fogelson Cultural and Creative Arts Vocal Competition and has also
been a national finalist in both the National Federation of Music Clubs
Young Artist Competition and the National Opera Association Vocal
Competition. In addition to her teaching and performing experience, she has served as a
consultant for the Peoria Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic, assisting in the diagnosis and treatment of
voice disorders.
Scott Rawls holds the B.M. degree from Indiana University and the M.M.
and D.M.A. from The State University of New York at Stony Brook. His
major teachers have included Abraham Skernick, Gorges Janzer, and
John Graham, to whom he was assistant at SUNY-Stony Brook. A
champion of new music, Rawls has toured extensively as a member of
Steve Reich and Musicians with recent performances in San Francisco,
Milan, and New York. He is a founding member of the Locrian Chamber
Players, a New York City based group dedicated to performing new
music. Rawls is invited frequently as guest artist with chamber
ensembles across the country. He has recorded for CRI, Elektra,
Nonesuch, Capstone, and Philips labels. In addition to serving as viola professor and coordinator
of the string area at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Rawls is very active as guest
clinician, adjudicator, and master class teacher at universities and festivals in America and
Europe.
Dennis AsKew currently serves as Associate Professor of Tuba,
Euphonium and Music Education at UNCG Greensboro. Additionally,
he serves as President-Elect/Vice President for the International Tuba
Euphonium Association, and recently hosted the international
conference for that organization in 2002. He has been active as a
performer, having given solo recitals throughout the United States,
Canada, Italy, Australia, Finland, and the Netherlands. Most recently
he performed at the Southeastern Tuba/Euphonium Conference in
Tuscaloosa, AL. Dr. AsKew also performs with the Market Street
Brass, UNCG’s faculty Brass Quintet.
Mary Ashley Barret holds a B.M. from Eastman, an M.M. from
Baylor and a D.M. with a certificate in the Pedagogy of Music Theory
from Florida State University. Her mentors have included Richard
Killmer, Doris DeLoach and Eric Ohlsson. An active performer, Barret
is currently a member of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and is
principal oboe in the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra. She has
appeared as soloist with the Florida State Wind Orchestra, the UNCG
Orchestra, and the Salisbury Symphony and has presented numerous
guest recitals and master classes throughout the United States,
Caribbean, New Zealand and Australia. Barret is a member of the
EastWind Trio d'Anches and can be heard on the recent recording "Out of the Woods:
Twentieth-Century French Wind Trios" with TreVent.
Kelly Burke holds the B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Eastman
School of Music and the D.M.A. from the University of Michigan. An
active performer, Burke is the principal clarinetist of the Greensboro
Symphony Orchestra and has appeared in recitals and as a soloist
with symphony orchestras throughout the United States, Canada,
Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and Russia. As a member of the
Mallarmé Chamber Players, the EastWind Trio d'Anches, and the
Cascade Wind Quintet, Burke is frequently heard in chamber music
settings. She has recorded for Centaur, Telarc, and Arabesque
labels. Burke has received several teaching awards, including
UNCG's Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, the School of Music Outstanding Teacher
Award, and has been named three times to Who's Who Among America's Teachers. She
is the author of numerous pedagogical articles and the critically acclaimed book Clarinet
Warm-Ups: Materials for the Contemporary Clarinetist.
John Fadial holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the
Arts, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Maryland.
As a United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador, he has
toured extensively on four continents. Recent recital appearances
have included performances at the Phillips Collection; the Kennedy
Center; the Sale Poirel, Nancy, France; and the American University
in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. A highly successful teacher, his students
has been accepted by such prestigious institutions as Oberlin
Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, the Eastman School, The
Cleveland Institute, and the National Repertory Orchestra. They also
have included winners of the Pittsburgh Symphony Young Artist Solo Competition; and
winners and finalists in the MTNA National Competitions. John Fadial currently serves as
concertmaster of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, as well as violinist of the
Chesapeake Trio and the McIver Ensemble. His mentors include Elaine Richey, Charles
Castleman, and Arnold Steinhardt.
Andrew Harley is Associate Professor of Accompanying in the School of
Music at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He received a B.A.
and M.A. from Oxford University, the Artist Diploma from the Royal
Northern College of Music in Manchester and a D.M.A from the University
of Southern California. He has been heard in recital throughout Europe
and the States in solo, accompanying and chamber music performances.
Previous appointments have included the University of California Los
Angeles, the University of Southern California and the University of
California Santa Barbara where he was Head of Accompanying. In
addition to these positions, he has also held 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 featured on live radio and television
broadcasts and currently serves as the official accompanist for a number of national and
international competitions and conferences. Recent CD recordings include chamber music of
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor as well as Russian music for cello and piano with cellist Brooks
Whitehouse. Future performances are scheduled throughout the United States and Australia. Dr.
Harley is Director of the Accompanying Program at UNCG.
Doryl Jensen's graduate education was in German and comparative
literature at Brigham Young University and then at The Johns Hopkins
University. He has lived extensively in Austria and other parts of Central
Europe. He teaches and lectures on topics related to the art,
architecture and music of the region. With the help of colleagues at
UNCG and elsewhere, he directs annual trips to the Salzburg Music
Festival and to other parts of Europe.
Carla LeFevre holds the B.M.Ed. in voice and horn from Central
Missouri State University and M.A. and D.M.A. degrees in performance
and pedagogy from the University of Iowa. She has performed
extensively in oratorios and operas, including leading roles in The Magic
Flute, La Bohème, The Turn of the Screw, and Handel's Agrippina, which
she performed at the Festival di Musica Antica in Urbino, Italy, and the
Classical Music Seminar in Eisenstadt, Austria. An active recitalist,
LeFevre was selected as the 1991National Winner of the Gertrude
Fogelson Cultural and Creative Arts Vocal Competition and has also
been a national finalist in both the National Federation of Music Clubs
Young Artist Competition and the National Opera Association Vocal
Competition. In addition to her teaching and performing experience, she has served as a
consultant for the Peoria Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic, assisting in the diagnosis and treatment of
voice disorders.
Scott Rawls holds the B.M. degree from Indiana University and the M.M.
and D.M.A. from The State University of New York at Stony Brook. His
major teachers have included Abraham Skernick, Gorges Janzer, and
John Graham, to whom he was assistant at SUNY-Stony Brook. A
champion of new music, Rawls has toured extensively as a member of
Steve Reich and Musicians with recent performances in San Francisco,
Milan, and New York. He is a founding member of the Locrian Chamber
Players, a New York City based group dedicated to performing new
music. Rawls is invited frequently as guest artist with chamber
ensembles across the country. He has recorded for CRI, Elektra,
Nonesuch, Capstone, and Philips labels. In addition to serving as viola professor and coordinator
of the string area at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Rawls is very active as guest
clinician, adjudicator, and master class teacher at universities and festivals in America and
Europe.
Artist Faculty Chamber Series
presents
Czech, please!
Thursday, March 18, 2004
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
Commentary by Doryl Jensen, UNCG Honors Program
Quartet (1947) Bohuslav Martinů
Moderato poco allegro (1890-1959)
Adagio-Andante poco moderato-Poco Allegro
Mary Ashley Barret, oboe
John Fadial, violin
Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Romance in F minor, Op. 11 for violin and piano Antonín Dvořák
Andante con moto (1841-1904)
John Fadial, violin
Andrew Harley, piano
I NEVER SAW ANOTHER BUTTERFLY, Song cycle for Soprano voice, Ellwood Derr
Alto Saxophone, and Piano. On the poems by children who were incarcerated (b. 1932)
in the Nazi ghetto for Jews in Terezín, Czechoslovakia (1942-1944) and who
died in Auschwitz before the end of October 1944.
Prologue: Terezín
The Butterfly
The Old Man
Fear
The Garden
Carla LeFevre, soprano
Steve Stusek, alto saxophone
Ināra Zandmane, piano
Intermission
Ricercare Domenico Gabrielli
(1659-1690)
Blackbird John Lennon
(1940-1980)
Dennis AsKew, tuba
Duo for Violin and Violoncello, Op. 7 Zoltán Kodály
Allegro serioso, non troppo (1882-1967)
Adagio
Maestoso e largamente — Presto
John Fadial, violin
Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello
_____
The hall is equipped with a listening assistance system.
Patrons needing such assistance should contact an usher in the lobby.
Patrons are encouraged to take note of the exits located on all levels of
the auditorium. In an emergency, please use the nearest exit, which may
be behind you or different from the one through which you entered.