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Featuring...
Ransom Wilson, flute - Mon., September 10, 2007
Gleb Ivanov, piano - Mon., November 12, 2007
Mendelssohn String Quartet - Mon., February 4, 2008
The Empire Brass - Mon., March 17, 2008
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All performances begin at 8:00 p.m. and will be presented at the Sunrise Theater.
Subscription for reserved seating: $80 per person for 4 concerts ($30 for students)
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Monday, September 10, 2007 at 8 p.m.
RANSOM WILSON, FLUTE
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 Long recognized as one of the world's leading instrumentalists, Ransom Wilson hails from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and was educated at the North Carolina School of the Arts and The Juilliard School. A three-time Grammy nominee, his flute teachers include Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alain Marion, and Julius Baker. He has appeared with major orchestras around the world, and has played in recitals with many of the greatest musicians of our time. Mr. Wilson is also a conductor of growing reputation, having guest conducted many prestigious ensembles, including the Houston Symphony, Hallé Orchestra, New York City Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. His conducting teachers have included Roger Nierenberg, James Dixon, Otto-Werner Mueller, and Leonard Bernstein. He is the founder and conductor of Solisti New York Orchestra, an Artist Member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Professor of Flute at Yale University, Music Director of the orchestra at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, and Artistic Director of Oklahoma's OK MOZART International Festival. For more information about Mr. Wilson, click onto www.ransomwilson.com.
PROGRAM (subject to change):
SCHUBERT: Sonatina in D major, D. 384; BACH: French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816; BIZET-BORNE-WILSON: Carmen Fantasy; POULENC: Sonata for Flute & Piano, Op. 164; FRANCAIX: Suite for Flute; DAUGHTERTY: The High and the Mighty
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Monday, November 12, 2007 at 8 p.m.
GLEB IVANOV, PIANO
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 Pianist Gleb Ivanov won the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, at which he was also awarded the Fergus Prize, the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian Prize, the Slomovic Orchestra Soloist Prize, The Alys Robinson Stevens Performing Arts Center Prize, and the Princeton University Concerts Prize. Born into a family of musicians in Moscow, Mr. Ivanov began to accompany his father's vocal recitals at the age of eight. He also plays the clarinet and the accordion, and holds a diploma in clarinet from Lyardov High School. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and attended the Manhattan School of Music in the Master of Music program, where he was the first recipient of the prestigious scholarship awarded by The Harold and Helene Schonberg Pianist Scholarship Trust. Since 2004, he has been mentored by Mstislav Rostropovich, performing on tour and as soloist with the Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic under the Maestro. To read more about Mr. Ivanov, click onto www.yca.org.
PROGRAM (subject to change):
HAYDN: Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI:48; SCHUBERT (Arr. Liszt): "Standchen" & "Aufenthalt" from Schwanengesang, D. 957, Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118, De Forelle, D. 550, and Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D. 960; CHOPIN: Nocturne in B major, Op. 9, No. 3 and Scherzo in C-sharp minor, Op. 39
CONCERT REVIEW:
Click Here to read a review of this concert by William Thomas Walker of Classical Voice of North Carolina.
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Monday, February 4, 2008 at 8 p.m.
MENDELSSOHN STRING QUARTET
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 The Mendelssohn String Quartet has established itself as one of the most imaginative, vital, and exciting quartets of its generation. The members of the quartet include violinists Miriam Fried and Nicholas Mann, violist Daniel Panner, and cellist Marcy Rosen. The group tours annually throughout North America with regular trips to foreign destinations. For nine years, they were the Blodgett Artists in Residence at Harvard University, and have performed at such distinguished venues as Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Tonhalle in Zurich. The resident quartet of the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival, the Quartet has performed at the Festival Pablo Casals in Prades, France, and makes frequent appearances at New York's Mostly Mozart Festival as well as music festivals in Ravinia, Aspen, and Saratoga. They were the first American ensemble invited to appear at the International Dialogues Festival in Kiev, Ukraine. The Quartet is often heard across the United States on Minnesota Public Radio's Saint Paul Sunday. You can learn more about the Mendelssohn String Quartet at their website, www.mendelssohnquartet.com.
PROGRAM (subject to change):
BEETHOVEN: Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4; BARTOK: Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Sz. 67; MENDELSSOHN: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, No. 3
CONCERT REVIEW:
Click Here to read a review of this concert by William Thomas Walker of Classical Voice of North Carolina.
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Monday, March 17, 2008 at 8 p.m.
THE EMPIRE BRASS
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 The Empire Brass enjoys an international reputation as North America's finest brass quintet, renowned for its brilliant virtuosity and an unparalleled diversity of repertoire. The five musicians - all of whom have held leading positions with major American orchestras - perform well over 100 concerts a year. With their best-selling recordings on the Telarc label, they have introduced an even larger audience worldwide to the excitement of brass music that ranges from Bach and Handel to jazz and Broadway. The Empire Brass is the first brass ensemble to win the prestigious Naumberg Chamber Music Award. They are equally at home in the majestically antiphonal works of Gabrieli and the exuberantly show stopping tunes that Richard Rodgers and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote for Broadway. The ensemble has performed with major symphony orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, and Zurich's Tönhalle Orchester. The group regularly visits leading summer festivals including Ravinia, Tanglewood, Caramoor, Saratoga, and Chautauqua. To learn more about The Empire Brass, visit their website, www.empirebrass.com.
PROGRAM (subject to change):
SUSATO: Basse Dance Bergeret; PROKOFIEV: "Morning Dance" from Romeo and Juliet and "Troika" from Lieutenant Kijé; ALBINONI: "Introduction and Allegro" from Sonata for Violin & Continuo Op.6, No. 5; DVORÁK: Slavonic Dance No. 1, Op. 46; TCHAIKOVSKY: "Danse Arabe" and "Dance Russe" from The Nutcracker; DE FALLA: "Ritual Fire Dance" from El Amor Brujo; MOZART: "Rondo alla Turka" from Piano Sonata No. 11, K. 331; HOLBORNE: Gigue; GERSHWIN: Piano Prelude No. 2 and "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess; WILSON: "76 Trombones" from The Music Man; ELLINGTON: It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing); COPLAND: "Simple Gifts" from Appalachian Spring
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