Season 9: 2012-2013
All concerts are presented at
First Baptist Church of Columbia, 1112 East Broadway,
unless otherwise indicated. Programs and artists may be subject to change without notice.
2013 Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival
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SEASON 9: 2012-2013
October 12 (Fri, 7pm): Beethoven & Hanging Gardens
This special concert features beautiful Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin & Piano Sonata No. 6 by Amy Appold and Natalia Bolshakova, exotic works by Saint-Saëns and Ravel with countertenor Chad Payton, flutist Alice K. Dade and pianist Peter Miyamoto, lush and exciting Liebermann Sonata for Flute and Piano, and Schoenberg’s stunning Hanging Gardens featuring soprano Christine Seitz and pianist Peter Miyamoto. Join us for the reception after the concert!
December 7 (Fri, 7pm): Holiday Bells & Drums
…and Saxophones, too!! Featured are our favorite percussionists Julia Gaines, Brian Tate and their friends featuring colorful works and wide ranging repertoire that will include an arrangement of “12 Days of Christmas.” Also featured are saxophonist Leo Saguiguit and his friends, as well as Columbia Handbell Ensemble lead by Edward S. Rollins. Come and enjoy a delightful, festive musical treat!
February 1 (Fri, 7pm): Baroque Flamenco
This Baroque concert is the largest ensemble we have ever put together, to perform the popular Orchestral Suite No. 3 (tunes that everyone recognizes), coupled with glorious Cantata BWV 119 that calls for four trumpets, three oboes, flutes, etc., and a virtuosic choir, too - All lead by conductor R. Paul Crabb. Between the two orchestral works, Maria Duhova Trevor will perform truly a fantastic piece written for harp, “Baroque Flamenco” by Deborah Henson Conant.
April 4-8: The 6th Plowman Chamber Music Competition & Festival
April 4 (Thur at 7pm, Missouri Theatre):
Plowman Commencement & Solo Recital by Frederic Chiu, piano
One of the three Plowman judges this year is pianist Frederic Chiu, who was the recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Petscheck Award of the Juilliard School, and was a fellow of the American Pianist Association. He was also the "non-winner" of the 1993 Van Cliburn Competition, where his elimination from the finals caused an uproar in the press. With over 20 CDs on the market, his repertoire includes the complete work of Prokofiev as well as popular classics of Chopin, Liszt and others, and lesser known masterpieces of Mendelssohn and Rossini, with a special place for the piano transcription. Many have been singled out, such as "Record of the Year" by Stereo Review, "Top 10 recordings" by the New Yorker, with raves from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
April 5 (Fri at 7pm): Verdehr Trio, co-presented by the Mizzou New Music Initiative
An acknowledged leader in the field of new music, the Verdehr Trio for forty years has concentrated on molding and defining the personality of the violin-clarinet-piano trio. The trio has over the years created a larger repertoire by commissioning over 200 new works from some of the world’s prominent and exciting composers – known and unknown, young and old, from this country and abroad. The Verdehr Trio has performed throughout the world: in seventeen European countries, the former Soviet Union, in South and Central America as well as in Asia, Australia and in almost all of the United States. Among major concert halls where the Trio has appeared are Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Librayr of Congress, Vienna’s Brahmssael, Sydney Opera House, London’s Wigmore Hall, Auditorio de Madrid, Dvorak Hall in Prague, IRCAM Centre in Paris and Leningrad’s Philharmonic Chamber Hall, The Trio has also played at various international festivals – the Spoleto Festival, Prague Spring Festival, the Vienna Spring Festival, Warsaw Autumn, the Grand Teton Music Festival and at numerous international clarinet festivals, Recently the Trio received a Creative Programming Award from Chamber Music America.
April 6 (Sat, 9:30am-5:30pm, First Baptist Church): Plowman Competition: Semi-Finals
This year, 15 ensembles will be selected through the Preliminary Auditions CD process to participate in the prestigious Plowman Semi-Finals. Each ensemble will have 20 minutes to set-up and perform their audition in front of the panel of three judges. What makes Plowman so unique is that instead of writing an adjudication, the judges are asked to discuss the audition with the semi-finalist ensembles directly with each ensemble the following day in a friendly setting of Sunday Brunch. The 5 Finalist ensembles are announced later Saturday evening at the First Baptist Church (exact room TBA).
April 7 (Sun, 1:30pm, Missouri Theatre): Plowman Finals Concert & Awards Ceremony
(Awards Ceremony location TBA)
Perhaps one of the most exciting circumstances both competing ensembles and audience members will ever experience, The Finals Concert is performed by the five Finalist ensembles which will compete for Cash Awards of $10,000 in total. Audience is asked to vote for their favorite ensemble, while Judges will determine which ensemble deserves the honor of carrying the national recognition. Due to schedule conflict at the Missouri Theatre, Awards Ceremony may need to be relocated, TBA.
April 8 (Mon, 7pm): Recital by Peter Wiley, cello & Anna Polonsky, piano
Peter Wiley needs no introduction to those who love chamber music; it is almost impossible to listen to a recording of a piano trio or string quartet without Peter Wiley in either Beaux Arts Trio or Guarneri String Quartet, to which he was a member of for many, many years. A faculty member of the prestigious Curtis Institute, he is joined by pianist Anna Polonsky for this very special recital. (Admission Free - to be confirmed in Fall 2012)
May 3 (Fri, 7pm): Missouriana
A wonderful season finale to another exciting year, “Missouriana” features all composers who are currently living in Missouri. Included in the program are William J. Lackey’s new Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano (2012) will be performed by Paul Garritson, Leslie Perna and Peter Miyamoto; Paul Seitz’s “…and that the moon survives” (1994) with violinist Amy Appold and pianist Ayako Tsuruta, and Anthony Glise’s The Missouri Fables, Op. 26 (2005) for guitar and violin with Ken Sugita. Join us to celebrate the Season 9 – and onward to Season 10!
