frequently as guest artist with chamber ensembles across the country. He has
recorded for CRI, Nonesuch, Capstone, and Philips labels. His most recent re-cording
project, Middle Voices: Chamber Music for Clarinet and Viola, will be
released on the Centaur label fall 2002. In addition to serving as viola professor
and coordinator of the string area at the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, Dr. Rawls is very active as guest clinician, adjudicator, and master
class teacher at universities and festivals in America and Europe. He holds a
B.M. degree from Indiana University and a M.M. and D.M.A. from State
University of New York at Stony Brook. His major teachers have included
Abraham Skernick, Gorges Janzer, and John Graham to whom he was an
assistant at SUNY at Stony Brook.
Andrew Harley is an Associate Professor 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, Canada, and the United States in solo,
accompanying and chamber music performances. Previous appointments have
included Occidental College, University of California Los Angeles, University of
Southern California and the University of California Santa Barbara where he was
Head of Accompanying. In addition to these positions, Dr. Harley 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 is the
official accompanist for numerous national competitions. He has recently been
invited to serve as official accompanist for the International Double Reed Society
Conference in 2003. Dr. Harley is currently Director of Accompanying at UNCG.
Keyboard Division Recital
Thurdsday, December 5 · 5:30 pm
Recital Hall
Saxophone Studio Recital
Thursday, December 5 · 5:30 pm
Organ Hall
University Band
Thursday, December 5 · 7:30 pm
Aycock Auditorium · ℑ
Wind Chamber Recital
Friday, December 6 · 3:30 pm
Organ Hall
Darin Achilles, trombone
Friday, December 6 · 5:30 pm
Organ Hall
University Jazz Band
Friday, December 6 · 7:30 pm
Recital Hall · ℑ
ℑ denotes a ticketed event. Tickets available at the University Box Office,
School of Music Room 215 or by calling (336) 334.4TIX (4849)
Middle Voices
Kelly Burke, clarinet
Scott Rawls, viola
Andrew Harley, piano
Faculty Recital
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
upcoming performances
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Program
from Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83 Max Bruch
I. Andante (1835-1880)
II. Allegro con moto
III. Andante con moto
VII. Allegro vivace, ma non troppo
Trio in E Major for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
K. 498 “Kegelstatt” (1756-1791)
Andante
Menuetto —Trio
Rondeaux: Allegretto
Intermission
On Yonder Mountain (2001) Eddie Bass
Young Emily (b. 1937)
When Young Men Go A-Courting
The Cherry Tree Carol
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
Kleines Konzert für Viola, Klarinette und Klavier (1937) Alfred Uhl
Allegro con brio (1909-1992)
Grave
Vivo
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The hall is equipped with a listening assistance system.
Patrons needing such assistance should contact an usher in the lobby.
Middle Voices Ensemble
The clarinet and the viola have a long history of sharing repertoire, which is not
surprising considering their similar ranges, tone qualities, and positions in the
middle of their respective families of instruments. The clarinet became an
important orchestral instrument in the late 18th century. When Mozart’s Clarinet
Concerto (1791) was first published in 1802, it was scored for viola by a
contemporary of Mozart’s in an early indication of how musicians recognized the
two instruments’ kinship. Mozart himself wrote one of the finest chamber works
involving these instruments, the Trio in Eb for clarinet, viola, and piano. Less well
known to modern audiences, Max Bruch’s Eight Pieces for Viola, Clarinet and
Piano demonstrates an effective ability to combine these instruments. Brahms’
two clarinet sonatas (1896) are heard frequently in arrangements the composer
himself made for viola; to this day a good natured and somewhat facetious rivalry
exists among violists and clarinetists eager to claim their versions of the Brahms
sonatas as “the real ones.”
Kelly Burke joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
in 1989. She is currently the principal clarinetist of the Greensboro Symphony
Orchestra and bass clarinetist of the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra. Equally at
home playing baroque to Bebop, she has appeared in recitals and as a soloist
with symphony orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, Germany,
New Zealand, Australia, and Russia. An avid chamber musician, Burke is
frequently heard in concert with the Mallarmé Chamber Players, for whom she
plays both clarinet and bass clarinet, the EastWind Trio d'Anches, and the
Cascade Wind Quintet. Burke’s discography includes a recent release with
Centaur Records: The Russian Clarinet, with works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich,
Glinka, Melkikh, and Goedicke. Middle Voices: Chamber Music for Clarinet and
Viola, featuring works by several American composers, is scheduled for release
in the summer of 2002. She has also recorded for 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 several 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. She holds the
B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the D.M.A. from
the University of Michigan. Burke is an artist/clinician for Rico International and
Buffet Clarinets.
Violist Scott Rawls has appeared as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician
throughout the United States and in Europe, and serves as principal violist of the
Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. Also 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 at Spoleto Festival USA in
Charleston, SC. He is a founding member of the Locrian Chamber Players, a
New York City based group dedicated to performing new music. Rawls is invited
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Middle Voices
Kelly Burke, clarinet
Scott Rawls, viola
Andrew Harley, piano
Faculty Recital
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
from Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Op. 83 Max Bruch
I. Andante (1835-1880)
II. Allegro con moto
III. Andante con moto
VII. Allegro vivace, ma non troppo
Trio in E Major for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
K. 498 “Kegelstatt” (1756-1791)
Andante
Menuetto —Trio
Rondeaux: Allegretto
Intermission
On Yonder Mountain (2001) Eddie Bass
Young Emily (b. 1937)
When Young Men Go A-Courting
The Cherry Tree Carol
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
Kleines Konzert für Viola, Klarinette und Klavier (1937) Alfred Uhl
Allegro con brio (1909-1992)
Grave
Vivo
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The hall is equipped with a listening assistance system.
Patrons needing such assistance should contact an usher in the lobby.
