U N C G
School of Music
U N C G
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.
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/
Artist Faculty Chamber Series
presents
Dvořák 100
Thursday, September 9, 2004
7:30 pm
Recital Hall, School of Music
Program
Commentary by Gregory Carroll, UNCG School of Music
afc
Serenade in D minor, Op. 44 Antonín Dvořák
Moderato — Quasi marcia (1841-1904)
Minuetto
Andante con moto
Allegro molto
Mary Ashley Barret, oboe
Thomas Pappas, oboe
Kelly Burke, clarinet
Luc Jackman, clarinet
Michael Burns, bassoon
Carol Lowe, bassoon
Valerie Trollinger, contrabassoon
Jack Masarie, horn
Kate Hopper, horn
Lynn Beck, horn
Brooks Whitehouse, violoncello
Craig Brown, double bass
David Nelson, rehearsal director
Intermission
Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81
Allegro ma non troppo
Dumka: Andante con moto — Un pochettino piu mosso
Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace — Trio: Poco tranquillo
Finale: Allegro
John Fadial, violin
Janet Orenstein, violin
Scott Rawls, viola
Brooks Whitehouse, violoncello
Andrew Harley, piano
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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.
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.
upcoming afcs events:
music of the british isles
thursday, october 28 · 7:30 pm
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sonic bouquet
thursday, february 3, 2005 · 7:30 pm
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a musical storybook
thursday, march 31, 2005 · 7:30 pm
all performances will take place in the school of music recital hall.
for tickets, call 334.4849 or e-mail boxoffice@uncg.edu
Janet Orenstein enjoys and active performing career in the United States and abroad as
both a chamber musician and soloist. As a founding member of the Guild Trio, she has
won the USIA Artistic Ambassador and Yellow Springs Competitions, and has toured
extensively with this group in Canada, Europe and the United States. From 1996-2001 she
performed and taught violin at the University of Virginia where the Guild Trio held the
position of Ensemble-in-Residence. As winner of the1996 USIA Duo Competition, she gave
recitals and master classes in seven African countries with pianist Christina Dahl. She has
been a top prizewinner in numerous competitions, including the Philadelphia Orchestra
Concerto Competition and the West Palm Beach Invitational Concerto Competition. Since
coming to North Carolina with her husband, UNCG cello professor Brooks Whitehouse and
their two sons, Ms. Orenstein has appeared as soloist with the Salisbury Symphony
Orchestra, and in recital at Lees-McRae and Mt. Olive Colleges. She has also performed
at Meredith College where the Guild Trio was resident ensemble for the 2003 NCMTA
State Conference. Her principal teachers include Joyce Robbins, Szymon Goldberg, Ivan
Galamian and Christine Dethier.
Thomas Pappas, oboe, holds the BA degree from Grace College, IN and is currently
working on the MM at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Active as a soloist,
chamber, and orchestra musician, Pappas has performed throughout the United States,
Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Wales. Pappas was raised in Germany,
where he first learned to play the oboe.
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, Georges Janzer, and John Graham, to whom he was an 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.
Valerie Trollinger received the BME degree from Susquehanna University (PA), the MM
degree in bassoon performance with minors in vocal performance and opera literature from
Indiana University, and the DMEd at Indiana University, with minors in bassoon
performance and instructional systems technology. She currently teaches courses in
instructional technology in the UNCG School of Music. Originally from the Philadelphia
area, her bassoon teachers include John Shamlian and Bernard Garfield of the
Philadelphia Orchestra, Sidney Rosenberg and Kim Walker at Indiana University, and
Ryohei Nakagawa of the Tokyo Philharmonic. She has performed with symphony
orchestras and chamber ensembles in the northeast and midatlantic U.S., Texas, and
Colorado; performed in Canada and Europe; and has appeared numerous times as a
soloist in southeastern Pennsylvania, where she is Principal Bassoon with the Reading
Symphony Orchestra and a member of the “Fyve” woodwind quintet. She also has regularly
served as a substitute and extra musician with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the North
Carolina Symphony Orchestra.
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.
Lynn Beck, horn, is a member of the Greensboro and Winston-Salem Symphonies, and
teaches music theory at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Salem College. Formerly
Principal Horn with the Nevada Symphony, she served as Horn Professor at the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas for twelve years prior to moving to North Carolina. As a member of
the Sierra Wind Quintet, she toured extensively and was involved with many commission
and recording projects. She holds performance and education degrees from the Eastman
School of Music and the University of Southern California.
Craig Brown holds a B.M. degree from the University of Michigan and has been a member
of the North Carolina Symphony since 1979. His major teachers included Lawrence Hurst,
Stuart Sankey, and Winston Budrow. He has served in the capacity of principal bass in
both The Des Moines Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of the
Triangle, and has been a member of the Toledo Symphony and the Aspen Festival
Orchestra. His Chamber Music activities have included performances with Mallarmé
Chamber Players, the American Chamber Music Festival, and the NC Symphony Chamber
Music Series. He has also been a member of the Swannanoa Chamber Players since
1982. Brown has been a bass clinician with the American String Teachers Association and
was a Clinician/Recitalist at the 1999 Florida Bass Bash. Recently, he transcribed and
published five volumes of duos for basses from the music of Jacques Offenbach. Brown is
a member of the faculty at the Brevard Music Center and performs as principal bass in the
Brevard Music Center Orchestra.
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.
Michael Burns holds the B.M. degree from the Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand, the M.M. from the New England Conservatory, and the D.M.A. from the University
of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Burns has performed in numerous
professional orchestras, including the Cincinnati Symphony and the New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra, and served as principal bassoon in the Midland/Odessa Symphony,
the Richmond and Abilene Symphonies, and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Currently
he is in demand with the North Carolina, Charleston, Greensboro, and Charlotte Symphony
Orchestras. He is also bassoonist in the EastWind Trio d'Anches and the Cascade Quintet.
Burns taught at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Indiana State University, and Midland
College. He is a Yamaha Performing Artist and has appeared in recitals at several major
universities and at conferences of the International Double Reed Society.
Gregory Carroll holds a B.A. in music from St. John's University (MN), and earned the
M.M. and Ph.D. in Composition/Theory from the University of Iowa, where he studied under
Donald Jenni, William Hibbard and Richard Hervig. Carroll has also taught at Indiana State
University, the College of St. Teresa, and the University of Iowa. His compositions have
been performed in Canada, Europe, Australia and the United States. He has served as
finalist judge for numerous state and national composition contests, and is frequently
sought after nationally as a guest lecturer and clinician. He is on the Board of Advisors to
the Monroe Institute, a professional organization that explores the effects of sound on the
brain.
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 have 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 US in solo, accompanying and chamber music performances. His recital
tours this year include performances in Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, New York, Maryland,
Virginia, South Carolina and Delaware. 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. In the past year, Harley has been invited to join the faculty at the AIMS program
in Graz, Austria as well as the University of Miami Summer program in Salzburg, Austria.
In addition he was invited to participate in the 2004 IDRS Conference in Melbourne,
Australia with bassoonist Michael Burns. 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. His latest recording project, The Chamber
Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, was recently released on the Centaur Label. Two other
recordings are currently in production: Sweet was the Song, a collection of English art
songs set to Elizabethan texts which he recorded with tenor, Robert Bracey; a second CD
recorded with Brooks Whitehouse featuring works from the UNCG Special Cello Collection
will be released next year. A third recording, The Chamber Music of Eddie Bass will be
recorded in 2005 with members of Middle Voices. Harley is currently Director of the
Accompanying Program at UNCG. In addition to running the new DMA degree in
Accompanying and Chamber Music, he is also the Artistic Director for the Liberace
Graduate Piano Trio - a resident graduate ensemble sponsored as a result of a grant
awarded to UNCG by the Liberace Foundation. Harley has recently been invited to judge
the International CyberSing Competition administered by the Lotte Lehmann Foundation.
Kathleen Hopper is a DMA student at UNCG, a 2004 graduate of UNCG with a MM in
Performance, and also earned a BA in Music from Murray State University (KY). She
currently teaches horn lessons at UNCG as a graduate assistant and through the
Community Music School. Ms. Hopper is a member of UNCG’s Wind Ensemble, Brass
Ensemble, and Horn Ensemble, and has performed with Market Street Brass and Bel
Canto. She is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, CMENC, the International Horn Society, and
the Liberty Jaycees.
Luc Jackman has performed as guest soloist with orchestras around the Montréal area.
He received the MM in chamber music performance from McGill University where he
studied with Robert Crowley, Michael Dumouchel and André Moisan, all members of the
Montréal Symphony Orchestra. Highly influenced by his lessons with Charles Neidich at
The Juilliard School, Luc is now working on a DMA at the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro with Dr. Kelly Burke. In the past two years, he has performed with the
Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the Winston-Salem Symphony, and the Carolina Pops.
Luc teaches applied clarinet at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as a
graduate assistant, and at UNC-Chapel Hill as an adjunct faculty member.
Carol Lowe is a DMA student in Bassoon Performance at UNCG, and holds degrees from
the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of Wisconsin
at Madison. She is active as a performer throughout the Southeast, having performed as a
soloist with the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Augusta and Greenville Symphony
Orchestras, and the Brevard Chamber Orchestra. In addition to her position as Principal
Bassoon with the South Carolina Philharmonic, Ms. Lowe freelances with numerous
orchestras including the Atlanta, Charlotte, and Charleston Symphony Orchestras. In 1997
Carol made her Carnegie Hall debut while on tour with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
and recorded Mahler's Sixth Symphony with maestro Yoel Levi. Ms. Lowe joined the
faculty of the University of South Carolina as bassoon instructor in 1996. In addition to her
teaching and orchestral playing, Carol enjoys playing chamber music and has performed
recitals with Charles Wadsworth and Joseph Robinson. She is currently a member of the
Mountain Chamber Players, Quintet Carolina, and Carolina Camerata.
Jack Masarie is a founding member of the Market Street Brass and the EastWind Quintets.
A former member of the Toledo and Detroit Symphony orchestras, he holds the B.M.
degree from Juilliard and the Brass Specialist M.M. from Bowling Green State University.
Former Principal Horn with the Greensboro Symphony, he serves as extra horn and
substitutes with the Roanoke, Lynchburg, Winston-Salem, Charlotte and North Carolina
Symphonies. He spent eighteen summers at Brevard Music Center, teaching, coaching,
and playing Principal Horn in the Festival Orchestra. Masarie is a recognized authority and
frequent performer on the natural horn (hand horn), valveless predecessor of the modern
instrument, and is an educational specialist for Conn/Selmer.
