Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
The Village of Bedford Walk
415 Bailey Drive, Columbia, Missouri 65203
Office 573-303-7252 | Mobile 573-214-1005 | Fax 573-256-3212
Coordinators
Laura Roeder, The Village of Bedford Walk Activities Director
Ayako Tsuruta, Odyssey Artistic Director
"Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk" brings music and musicians of
Odyssey Chamber Music Series right to the doorsteps of the Village of Bedford Walk community.
415 Bailey Drive, Columbia, Missouri 65203
Office 573-303-7252 | Mobile 573-214-1005 | Fax 573-256-3212
Coordinators
Laura Roeder, The Village of Bedford Walk Activities Director
Ayako Tsuruta, Odyssey Artistic Director
"Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk" brings music and musicians of
Odyssey Chamber Music Series right to the doorsteps of the Village of Bedford Walk community.
2020 Odyssey Music@The Village of Bedford Walk
Date TBA.
Free Admission | Seating is Limited.
Free Admission | Seating is Limited.
2018-9 Odyssey Music@The Village of Bedford Walk
January 31 (Thu) 5pm Music for Flute and Piano
March 22 (Fri) 4:30pm Plowman Competition Semi-Finalist
May 9 (Thu) 5pm Schumann and his friends
Free Admission | Seating is Limited.
March 22 (Fri) 4:30pm Plowman Competition Semi-Finalist
May 9 (Thu) 5pm Schumann and his friends
Free Admission | Seating is Limited.
Clara and Robert Schumann
The Village of Bedford Walk & Odyssey Chamber Music Series present
Concert Nine: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 5:00pm
Spring Night…
“Vedrai Carino” from Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Widmung Robert Schumann
(1810-1856)
The Lordly Hudson Ned Rorem
(b. 1923)
Emeline Yorty, soprano
Arun Garg, piano
Auf der Bruck Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)
Vaga luna, che inargenti Vincenzo Bellini
(1801-1835)
Fleur jetée Gabriel Fauré
(1845-1824)
Connor Cochran, baritone
Ross Dryer, piano
Liederkreis, Op. 39 (1840) Robert Schumann
Steven Tharp, tenor | Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Biographies
Arun Garg is from the St. Louis area. He recently earned a dual Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology at the University of Missouri in December 2018. He also studied piano performance at the Peabody Conservatory. His teachers include Larisa Morozova, Ruth Slencynska, Peter Miyamoto, and Leon Fleisher. Arun has also been Music Director for a number of musical theatre productions both in Missouri and on the East Coast; these include Urinetown, Assassins, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Wild Party, South Pacific, and Songs for a New World. He also spent a year as a rehearsal pianist for the soloist and principal rank of dancers at the Washington National Ballet. In his free time, Arun enjoys hiking, cooking, playing with his beagle, and watching period dramas.
Connor Cochran, high baritone, is from West Plains, Missouri. He is currently a Sophomore at the University of Missouri pursuing a Bachelor of Vocal Performance in Music. He is a proud voice student of Professor Steven Tharp. He has performed in multiple musical theatre productions including portraying Cornelius Hackl in Hello Dolly; Will Parker in Oklahoma; Judas in Godspell; Watson in the world premiere of Hans Bridger Heruth’s chamber opera, A Certain Madness; Papageno in The Magic Flute; and as a cover for Ruggiero in the Show Me Opera’s production of Alcina. Connor is a member of the University Singers here at Mizzou as well as one of the founders of Canticum Novum. Connor was recently accepted into Grammy Award-Winning Chanticleer’s summer workshop in Sonoma, California. Finally, he has also been accepted as a member of Seraphic Fire’s Professional Choral Institute, which will be held in Aspen, Colorado this coming summer.
Ross Dryer is a graduating senior in Piano Performance at Mizzou. He accompanies many voice students in their lessons and performances, and plans to pursue a graduate degree in Collaborative Piano. He is currently the staff rehearsal accompanist at Columbia Entertainment Company and has played for such shows as Little Shop of Horrors, Next to Normal, and Cabaret.
Emeline Clay Yorty, soprano, is from West Plains, Missouri and is currently a freshman at the University of Missouri pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. She is a proud voice student of Professor Steven Tharp and is a member of Mizzou’s University Singers as well as Canticum Novum and Ars Nova. This year, she debuted her opera career as a Spirit in the Show-Me Opera’s performance of The Magic Flute. She has received first place in the classical division of Mid-Missouri NATS, second place in the musical theater division of Mid-Missouri NATS, and Honorable Mention in the MMTA competition. Throughout her high school career, she performed as Ermengarde in Hello, Dolly! and Teen Fiona in Shrek, along with being a member of the Missouri All-State Choir for two years.
Missouri-born tenor Steven Tharp accumulated impressive operatic credits that include performances with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Netherlands Opera, Badisches Staatsoper, Teatro Massimo, Netherlands Reisopera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Pacific, Minnesota Opera and the companies of Dallas, Houston, Seattle, Memphis, Omaha, Salt Lake City and Miami. Handel and Mozart are well represented in Mr. Tharp’s repertoire of more than 60 operatic parts, and his keen interest in 18th and early 19th Century opera has led to roles in Gluck’s Les Pèlerins de la Mecque, Haydn’s L’Isola Disabitata and L’Infedeltà Delusa, Scarlatti’s Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante, Conti’s Don Quixote in Sierra Morena, Gassmann’sL’Opera Seria, Grétry’s Zémire et Azor and Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella. In concert, Mr. Tharp has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Houston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Mexico), St. Louis Symphony, Chicago Music of the Baroque and American Bach Soloists, under conductors including Sir Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, James Conlon, Marin Alsop, JoAnn Falletta, Alan Gilbert and Jane Glover. His concert repertoire includes the masterpieces of the 18th and 19th century — the Bach passions, the masses of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, the oratorios of Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn — and extends to Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder, the Verdi Requiem and Britten’s War Requiem. A dedicated song recitalist, Mr. Tharp has appeared at the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he collaborated with Will Crutchfield in two series, The World of Schubert’s Songs and The World of Heinrich Heine. He has also appeared in recital at the 92nd Street Y, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, the Bard Festival, Caramoor, Newport Chamber Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, the New York Festival of Song and venues in Europe, Japan and South America. His interest in musical theater and cabaret led to his appearance in 3 Tenors in Search of an Act, which won the Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical Comedy after a sold-out run at Don’t Tell Mama in New York. Mr. Tharp has recorded for Decca, Delos, Newport, Albany and Naxos. His world-premiere recording of the complete songs of Edward MacDowell, accompanied by the late James Barbagallo, earned a Grammy Award nomination, and his recording of Frank Martin’s Le Vin Herbé was an “Editor’s Choice” in Opera News. Other recordings include Vaughan-Williams’ On Wenlock Edge with the Ciompi Quartet, Handel’s Messiah with the American Bach Soloists. Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Jan-Paul Grijpink and a CD of Fauré songs with Rachelle Jonck. Mr. Tharp has also served as stage director for the Manhattan School of Music’s Handel Project (Alcina, Ariodante) and for Caramoor (Così fan Tutte, H.M.S. Pinafore, Pauline Viardot’sCindrillon and Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix).
Ayako Tsuruta is Artistic Director of the Odyssey Chamber Music Series and Plowman Chamber Music Competition. As the winner of concerto competitions, she has appeared as soloist with the Juilliard Symphony, Eastern Connecticut Symphony and Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, as well as Wallingford Symphony Orchestra in the United States, and with University Symphony Orchestra in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also performed at summer festivals in Aspen, Banff, Ravinia and Tanglewood, Meranofest and Accademia Chiagiana in Italy, and Figueira da Foz in Portugal, as well as recitals in the United States, Canada, Germany, Lebanon and Serbia. Ms. Tsuruta studied with Leena K. Crothers at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, Josef Raieff at Juilliard School, Claude Frank at Yale University, Maria Curcio-Diamand in England, and Marek Jablonski at University of Alberta. She has studied chamber music with Joseph Fuchs, Felix Galimir, Jacob Lateiner, and Harvey Shapiro to name a few. Ms. Tsuruta has taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and at the University of Missouri. She has taught at the Hartwick College Summer Music Institute and Festival and New York Summer Music Festival in Oneonta for 11 years. In Columbia, she maintains an active private studio and on occasion, coaches chamber ensembles.
Concert Nine: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 5:00pm
Spring Night…
“Vedrai Carino” from Don Giovanni Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Widmung Robert Schumann
(1810-1856)
The Lordly Hudson Ned Rorem
(b. 1923)
Emeline Yorty, soprano
Arun Garg, piano
Auf der Bruck Franz Schubert
(1797-1828)
Vaga luna, che inargenti Vincenzo Bellini
(1801-1835)
Fleur jetée Gabriel Fauré
(1845-1824)
Connor Cochran, baritone
Ross Dryer, piano
Liederkreis, Op. 39 (1840) Robert Schumann
- In der Fremde (In foreign lands) (1810-1856)
- Intermezzo
- Waldesgespräch (Forest Conversation)
- Die Stille (The Silent One)
- Mondnacht (Moonlit Night)
- Schöne Fremde (Lovely foreign land)
- Auf einer Burg (In a castle)
- In der Fremde (In foreign lands)
- Wehmut (Melancholy)
- Zwielicht (Twilight)
- Im Walde (In the woods)
- Frühlingsnacht (Spring night)
Steven Tharp, tenor | Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Biographies
Arun Garg is from the St. Louis area. He recently earned a dual Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology at the University of Missouri in December 2018. He also studied piano performance at the Peabody Conservatory. His teachers include Larisa Morozova, Ruth Slencynska, Peter Miyamoto, and Leon Fleisher. Arun has also been Music Director for a number of musical theatre productions both in Missouri and on the East Coast; these include Urinetown, Assassins, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Wild Party, South Pacific, and Songs for a New World. He also spent a year as a rehearsal pianist for the soloist and principal rank of dancers at the Washington National Ballet. In his free time, Arun enjoys hiking, cooking, playing with his beagle, and watching period dramas.
Connor Cochran, high baritone, is from West Plains, Missouri. He is currently a Sophomore at the University of Missouri pursuing a Bachelor of Vocal Performance in Music. He is a proud voice student of Professor Steven Tharp. He has performed in multiple musical theatre productions including portraying Cornelius Hackl in Hello Dolly; Will Parker in Oklahoma; Judas in Godspell; Watson in the world premiere of Hans Bridger Heruth’s chamber opera, A Certain Madness; Papageno in The Magic Flute; and as a cover for Ruggiero in the Show Me Opera’s production of Alcina. Connor is a member of the University Singers here at Mizzou as well as one of the founders of Canticum Novum. Connor was recently accepted into Grammy Award-Winning Chanticleer’s summer workshop in Sonoma, California. Finally, he has also been accepted as a member of Seraphic Fire’s Professional Choral Institute, which will be held in Aspen, Colorado this coming summer.
Ross Dryer is a graduating senior in Piano Performance at Mizzou. He accompanies many voice students in their lessons and performances, and plans to pursue a graduate degree in Collaborative Piano. He is currently the staff rehearsal accompanist at Columbia Entertainment Company and has played for such shows as Little Shop of Horrors, Next to Normal, and Cabaret.
Emeline Clay Yorty, soprano, is from West Plains, Missouri and is currently a freshman at the University of Missouri pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. She is a proud voice student of Professor Steven Tharp and is a member of Mizzou’s University Singers as well as Canticum Novum and Ars Nova. This year, she debuted her opera career as a Spirit in the Show-Me Opera’s performance of The Magic Flute. She has received first place in the classical division of Mid-Missouri NATS, second place in the musical theater division of Mid-Missouri NATS, and Honorable Mention in the MMTA competition. Throughout her high school career, she performed as Ermengarde in Hello, Dolly! and Teen Fiona in Shrek, along with being a member of the Missouri All-State Choir for two years.
Missouri-born tenor Steven Tharp accumulated impressive operatic credits that include performances with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Netherlands Opera, Badisches Staatsoper, Teatro Massimo, Netherlands Reisopera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Pacific, Minnesota Opera and the companies of Dallas, Houston, Seattle, Memphis, Omaha, Salt Lake City and Miami. Handel and Mozart are well represented in Mr. Tharp’s repertoire of more than 60 operatic parts, and his keen interest in 18th and early 19th Century opera has led to roles in Gluck’s Les Pèlerins de la Mecque, Haydn’s L’Isola Disabitata and L’Infedeltà Delusa, Scarlatti’s Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante, Conti’s Don Quixote in Sierra Morena, Gassmann’sL’Opera Seria, Grétry’s Zémire et Azor and Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella. In concert, Mr. Tharp has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Houston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Mexico), St. Louis Symphony, Chicago Music of the Baroque and American Bach Soloists, under conductors including Sir Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, James Conlon, Marin Alsop, JoAnn Falletta, Alan Gilbert and Jane Glover. His concert repertoire includes the masterpieces of the 18th and 19th century — the Bach passions, the masses of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, the oratorios of Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn — and extends to Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder, the Verdi Requiem and Britten’s War Requiem. A dedicated song recitalist, Mr. Tharp has appeared at the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he collaborated with Will Crutchfield in two series, The World of Schubert’s Songs and The World of Heinrich Heine. He has also appeared in recital at the 92nd Street Y, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, the Bard Festival, Caramoor, Newport Chamber Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, the New York Festival of Song and venues in Europe, Japan and South America. His interest in musical theater and cabaret led to his appearance in 3 Tenors in Search of an Act, which won the Back Stage Bistro Award for Outstanding Musical Comedy after a sold-out run at Don’t Tell Mama in New York. Mr. Tharp has recorded for Decca, Delos, Newport, Albany and Naxos. His world-premiere recording of the complete songs of Edward MacDowell, accompanied by the late James Barbagallo, earned a Grammy Award nomination, and his recording of Frank Martin’s Le Vin Herbé was an “Editor’s Choice” in Opera News. Other recordings include Vaughan-Williams’ On Wenlock Edge with the Ciompi Quartet, Handel’s Messiah with the American Bach Soloists. Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Jan-Paul Grijpink and a CD of Fauré songs with Rachelle Jonck. Mr. Tharp has also served as stage director for the Manhattan School of Music’s Handel Project (Alcina, Ariodante) and for Caramoor (Così fan Tutte, H.M.S. Pinafore, Pauline Viardot’sCindrillon and Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix).
Ayako Tsuruta is Artistic Director of the Odyssey Chamber Music Series and Plowman Chamber Music Competition. As the winner of concerto competitions, she has appeared as soloist with the Juilliard Symphony, Eastern Connecticut Symphony and Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, as well as Wallingford Symphony Orchestra in the United States, and with University Symphony Orchestra in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also performed at summer festivals in Aspen, Banff, Ravinia and Tanglewood, Meranofest and Accademia Chiagiana in Italy, and Figueira da Foz in Portugal, as well as recitals in the United States, Canada, Germany, Lebanon and Serbia. Ms. Tsuruta studied with Leena K. Crothers at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, Josef Raieff at Juilliard School, Claude Frank at Yale University, Maria Curcio-Diamand in England, and Marek Jablonski at University of Alberta. She has studied chamber music with Joseph Fuchs, Felix Galimir, Jacob Lateiner, and Harvey Shapiro to name a few. Ms. Tsuruta has taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and at the University of Missouri. She has taught at the Hartwick College Summer Music Institute and Festival and New York Summer Music Festival in Oneonta for 11 years. In Columbia, she maintains an active private studio and on occasion, coaches chamber ensembles.
~ Past Concerts ~
The Village of Bedford Walk & Odyssey Chamber Music Series present
Concert Eight: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Friday, March 22nd, 2019 at 4:00 pm
The Village of Bedford Walk
Columbia, Missouri
String Quartet No. 62 in C Major, Op. 76 No. 3 “Emperor” (1797-8) Franz Joseph Haydn
Quartet No. 2, Sz. 67 (1915-1917) Béla Bartók
Dior Quartet
Noa Sarid and Tobias Elser, violins
Darryl Manley, viola
Joanne Yesol Choi, violoncello
Formed in Fall 2018, the Dior Quartet is working hard as a new, but ambitious and passionate quartet. They are currently coached by the Pacifica Quartet at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University. In October 2018, Dior won the alternate position at the Beethoven-Haus Quartet Competition. They were also selected for a recording project engagement with Konrad Strauss and the Department of Audio Engineering and Sound Production. Dior performed in a masterclass for the London Haydn Quartet in January. They also performed in a live joint-collaboration concert for the WFIU public radio and Indiana University at the Joshi Studio. They will be attending the St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar at Stanford University with full scholarship and travel stipend in summer 2019.
Concert Eight: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Friday, March 22nd, 2019 at 4:00 pm
The Village of Bedford Walk
Columbia, Missouri
String Quartet No. 62 in C Major, Op. 76 No. 3 “Emperor” (1797-8) Franz Joseph Haydn
- Allegro (1743-1809)
- Poco Adagio, cantabile
- Menuetto & trio
- Finale, Presto
Quartet No. 2, Sz. 67 (1915-1917) Béla Bartók
- Moderato (1881-1945)
- Allegro molto capriccioso
Dior Quartet
Noa Sarid and Tobias Elser, violins
Darryl Manley, viola
Joanne Yesol Choi, violoncello
Formed in Fall 2018, the Dior Quartet is working hard as a new, but ambitious and passionate quartet. They are currently coached by the Pacifica Quartet at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University. In October 2018, Dior won the alternate position at the Beethoven-Haus Quartet Competition. They were also selected for a recording project engagement with Konrad Strauss and the Department of Audio Engineering and Sound Production. Dior performed in a masterclass for the London Haydn Quartet in January. They also performed in a live joint-collaboration concert for the WFIU public radio and Indiana University at the Joshi Studio. They will be attending the St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar at Stanford University with full scholarship and travel stipend in summer 2019.
The Village of Bedford Walk & Odyssey Chamber Music Series present
Concert Seven: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 5:00pm
The Triple "A" Ensemble
Ian Clarke (b. 1964): Sunday Morning (1987) [ca. 4'00]
Hamilton Harty (1879-1941): In Ireland Fantasy (1918) [ca, 8'00]
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): from Flute Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV 1031 (ca. 1730-40): II. Siciliano [3'00]
Libby Larsen (b. 1950): Dancing Solo. for clarinet [ca. 13'00]
with shadows
eight to the bar
in ten slow circles
flat out
Mike Mower (b. 1958): from Latino Sonata (1994) for flute and piano, I. Salsa Montunate [7'00]
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Hungarian Dance Suite No. 1 - Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F-sharp Minor (1869), trans. Michael Webster [5'00] for flute, clarinet and piano
Allison Brenner, flute
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Concert Seven: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 5:00pm
The Triple "A" Ensemble
Ian Clarke (b. 1964): Sunday Morning (1987) [ca. 4'00]
Hamilton Harty (1879-1941): In Ireland Fantasy (1918) [ca, 8'00]
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): from Flute Sonata in E-flat Major, BWV 1031 (ca. 1730-40): II. Siciliano [3'00]
Libby Larsen (b. 1950): Dancing Solo. for clarinet [ca. 13'00]
with shadows
eight to the bar
in ten slow circles
flat out
Mike Mower (b. 1958): from Latino Sonata (1994) for flute and piano, I. Salsa Montunate [7'00]
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Hungarian Dance Suite No. 1 - Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F-sharp Minor (1869), trans. Michael Webster [5'00] for flute, clarinet and piano
Allison Brenner, flute
Andrew Mahonen, clarinet
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Allison Brenner graduated from the University of Arkansas (U of A) in December 2010 with a degree in Music Business. At the U of A, she studied under Dr. Ronda Mains and fulfilled the studio requirements of a flute performance major. During her tenure, she performed with the U of A Wind Symphony for five semesters and also played with the University Symphony Orchestra (USO) for two semesters. In the spring of 2009, she won the U of A Concerto Aria Competition and was awarded the opportunity to perform her selection with the USO. She performed in various local musical ensembles, was a member of Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI) – a women’s fraternity for music – and was awarded several music scholarships during her tenure at the U of A. After graduation, she continued to play in local ensembles and taught flute and piano lessons. She and her husband moved to South Carolina for her husband to attend medical school in 2012, and then to Columbia in 2016 for his residency at the MU Hospital. Since coming to Columbia, she has joined the Columbia Civic Orchestra and the Odyssey Board as general manager. She currently works full-time as a credentialing specialist with Real Radiology.
Clarinetist Andrew Mahonen is an avid performer, researcher, and educator. Currently, he pursuing his Masters of Music degree in clarinet performance at the University of Missouri and has worked with the Odyssey Chamber Music Series as a Performance Fellow (Season 14). Being an advocate for music education, Andrew has taught students of all ages privately. Additionally, he held the position of music mentor at Duluth Denfeld High School where he taught lessons and masterclasses, helped students prepare for music contest, and presented lectures on various various topics. Andrew was awarded a research grant to survey the general music knowledge of high school and college students and used the findings from this to develop a method of teaching that views music as a diverse art. Andrew has appeared as a soloist numerous times around Northern Minnesota, and has performed in several orchestras including the Duluth/Superior Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of the North, the Minnesota Ballet Orchestra, and the Missouri Symphony. Having a passion for chamber music, he was the clarinetist with the Aurora Winds Quintet, he performed on a recital at the International Clarinet Association's annual ClarinetFest in Oostende, Belgium with the Missouri Clarinet Quartet, and he was featured at the Minnesota Music Educator's Asociation's midwinter clinic with te University of Minnesota, Deluth Chamber Winds. Andrew holds his Bachelors of Music in clarinet performance from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and his primary teachers have been Dr. Wesley Warnhoff and Dr. Theodore Schoen.
Ayako Tsuruta is Artistic Director of the Odyssey Chamber Music Series and Plowman Chamber Music Competition. As the winner of concerto competitions, she has appeared as soloist with the Juilliard Symphony, Eastern Connecticut Symphony and Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, as well as Wallingford Symphony Orchestra in the United States, and with University Symphony Orchestra in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also performed at summer festivals in Aspen, Banff, Ravinia and Tanglewood, Meranofest and Accademia Chiagiana in Italy, and Figueira da Foz in Portugal, as well as recitals in the United States, Canada, Germany, Lebanon and Serbia. Ms. Tsuruta studied with Leena K. Crothers at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, Josef Raieff at Juilliard School, Claude Frank at Yale University, Maria Curcio-Diamand in England, and Marek Jablonski at University of Alberta. She has studied chamber music with Joseph Fuchs, Felix Galimir, Jacob Lateiner, and Harvey Shapiro to name a few. Ms. Tsuruta has taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and at the University of Missouri. She has taught at the Hartwick College Summer Music Institute and Festival and New York Summer Music Festival in Oneonta for 11 years. In Columbia, she maintains an active private studio and on occasion, coaches chamber ensembles.
The Village of Bedford Walk & Odyssey Chamber Music Series present Concert Six: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 5:00pm
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
featuring
Anya Akhmadullina, violin
Program
Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 48 Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky I. Allegro molto e con brio (1904-1987)
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1969) Leonid Zinovievich Lyubovsky
III. Movement 3 (b. 1937)
Rhapsody in Blue (1924) George Gershwin (1898-1937)
transcribed by Timofei Dokshitser
Someone to Watch Over Me (1926) G. Gershwin
arr. Joseph Turrin
Csárdás (1904) Vittorio Monti (1868-1922)
Oblivion (1982) Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921-1992) arr. Joe Burgstaller
Libertango (1974) Á. Piazzolla arr. Joshua Parman
The Syncopated Clock (1945) Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)
Blue Tango (1952) L. Anderson
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1939) Harold Arlen (1905-1986) arr. Allen Vizzutti
Java (1958) Allen Toussant & Alvin Tyler (1938-2015) (1925-1998)
Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 5:00pm
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Iskander Akhmadullin, trumpet
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
featuring
Anya Akhmadullina, violin
Program
Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 48 Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky I. Allegro molto e con brio (1904-1987)
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano (1969) Leonid Zinovievich Lyubovsky
III. Movement 3 (b. 1937)
Rhapsody in Blue (1924) George Gershwin (1898-1937)
transcribed by Timofei Dokshitser
Someone to Watch Over Me (1926) G. Gershwin
arr. Joseph Turrin
Csárdás (1904) Vittorio Monti (1868-1922)
Oblivion (1982) Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921-1992) arr. Joe Burgstaller
Libertango (1974) Á. Piazzolla arr. Joshua Parman
The Syncopated Clock (1945) Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)
Blue Tango (1952) L. Anderson
Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1939) Harold Arlen (1905-1986) arr. Allen Vizzutti
Java (1958) Allen Toussant & Alvin Tyler (1938-2015) (1925-1998)
The Village of Bedford Walk & Odyssey Chamber Music Series present Concert Five: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 5:00pm
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Études
A-flat Major, Op. 25 No. 1 (1836)
F minor, Op. 25 No. 2 (1836)
F Major, Op. 10 No. 8 (1829-33)
F. Chopin:
Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 55 No. 2 (1842-44)
Grande Valse Brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 18 No. 1 (1833)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Jeux d’eau (1901)
Peter Miyamoto, piano
M. Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor (1914)
I. Modéré
II. Pantoum: Assez vif
III. Passacaille: Très large
IV. Final: Animé
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, violoncello
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 5:00pm
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Études
A-flat Major, Op. 25 No. 1 (1836)
F minor, Op. 25 No. 2 (1836)
F Major, Op. 10 No. 8 (1829-33)
F. Chopin:
Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 55 No. 2 (1842-44)
Grande Valse Brillante in E-flat Major, Op. 18 No. 1 (1833)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Jeux d’eau (1901)
Peter Miyamoto, piano
M. Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor (1914)
I. Modéré
II. Pantoum: Assez vif
III. Passacaille: Très large
IV. Final: Animé
Julie Rosenfeld, violin
Eli Lara, violoncello
Ayako Tsuruta, piano
The Village of Bedford Walk & Odyssey Chamber Music Series present Concert Four: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 4:00pm
Thornbrook Piano Trio
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Suite in C Major, BWV1009 (1720)
I. Prelude
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): ABEGG Variations, Op. 1 (1829/30)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F Minor, "Appassionata" (1938/1952)
Henry Huang, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Vocalise, Op. 34
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): from Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 (1934)
IV. Allegro
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Trio in C Minor, Op. 1 No. 3 (1795)
I. Allegro con brio
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Trio in D Minor, Op. 49 (1839)
I. Molto allegro ed agitato
Sejoon Jun, violin
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Henry Huang, piano
Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 4:00pm
Thornbrook Piano Trio
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Suite in C Major, BWV1009 (1720)
I. Prelude
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): ABEGG Variations, Op. 1 (1829/30)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Transcendental Etude No. 10 in F Minor, "Appassionata" (1938/1952)
Henry Huang, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Vocalise, Op. 34
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975): from Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 (1934)
IV. Allegro
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Natalia Bolshakova, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Trio in C Minor, Op. 1 No. 3 (1795)
I. Allegro con brio
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Trio in D Minor, Op. 49 (1839)
I. Molto allegro ed agitato
Sejoon Jun, violin
Ryan Choe, violoncello
Henry Huang, piano
The Village of Bedford Walk & Odyssey Chamber Music Series present Concert Three: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Friday, April 7, 2017 at 5:00pm
Plowman Chamber Music Competition: Semi-Finalist Showcase
One of the 15 Semi-Finalist ensemble will perform an hour concert at the Village of Bedford Walk! Hear them first, before their official competition performance the next day, beginning 9:30am at First Baptist Church downtown.
* To maintain the integrity of the competition, we regret we are unable to reveal the name of the ensemble scheduled to perform on the web site. Be there for their incredible performance to find out who will give an hour concert, free of charge!
Program and ensemble to be revealed at the concert.
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Béla Bartók (1881-1945): String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85 (1927)
Prima parte: Moderato
Seconda parte: Allegro
Recapitulazione della prima parte
Coda. Allegro molto
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): String Quartet (1903)
Allegro moderato – très doux
Assez vif – très rythmé
Très lent
Vif et agité
Vera Quartet - GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the 2017 Plowman Competition
Pedro Rodriguez Rodriguez, violin
Patricia Quintero, violin
Ines Picado Malares, viola
Justin Goldsmith, violoncello
The Vera Quartet is currently Graduate Quartet-in-Residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with the Pacifica Quartet. This academic year they are also Quartet-in-Residence for the Jacobs School New Music Ensemble, working closely with its director David Dzubay and guest composers.
Formed at the Jacobs School of Music in 2015, the Vera Quartet was invited to perform at the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, Germany, during the spring of 2016. Last summer the quartet was selected to take part in the Chamber Music Residency at the Banff Centre in Canada, and in January 2017 they were invited to the Robert Mann String Quartet Seminar at the Manhattan School of Music. This year the Vera Quartet was one of five artists selected by NPR's Performance Today to spend a week as the show's Young Artist in Residence. In March they will be representing Indiana University on a tour of Korea and they will perform Tan Dun’s Concerto for String Quartet and Pipa with famed pipa player Wu Man as part of the China Remixed Festival.
The Vera Quartet is also involved in outreach projects in the Bloomington area and beyond; they have been recorded for the new album Bloomingsongs produced by the Jacobs School of Music’s Musical Beginnings, and have partnered with a local youth symphony to both teach and perform. As part of their upcoming Performance Today residency, the quartet will also perform outreach concerts in a few public schools in Minnesota.
In addition to working with the Pacifica Quartet, the Vera Quartet has been coached by Atar Arad, Mauricio Fuks, Alex Kerr, Peter Stumpf, Mark Steinberg, Richard Lester, Hsin-Yun Huang, Barry Shiffman, Joshua Bell, Martin Beaver, Ani Kavafian, Peter Winograd, Wolfram Koessel, David Geber, Nicholas Mann, Kazuhide Isomura and Samuel Rhodes.
Friday, April 7, 2017 at 5:00pm
Plowman Chamber Music Competition: Semi-Finalist Showcase
One of the 15 Semi-Finalist ensemble will perform an hour concert at the Village of Bedford Walk! Hear them first, before their official competition performance the next day, beginning 9:30am at First Baptist Church downtown.
* To maintain the integrity of the competition, we regret we are unable to reveal the name of the ensemble scheduled to perform on the web site. Be there for their incredible performance to find out who will give an hour concert, free of charge!
Program and ensemble to be revealed at the concert.
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Béla Bartók (1881-1945): String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85 (1927)
Prima parte: Moderato
Seconda parte: Allegro
Recapitulazione della prima parte
Coda. Allegro molto
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): String Quartet (1903)
Allegro moderato – très doux
Assez vif – très rythmé
Très lent
Vif et agité
Vera Quartet - GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the 2017 Plowman Competition
Pedro Rodriguez Rodriguez, violin
Patricia Quintero, violin
Ines Picado Malares, viola
Justin Goldsmith, violoncello
The Vera Quartet is currently Graduate Quartet-in-Residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with the Pacifica Quartet. This academic year they are also Quartet-in-Residence for the Jacobs School New Music Ensemble, working closely with its director David Dzubay and guest composers.
Formed at the Jacobs School of Music in 2015, the Vera Quartet was invited to perform at the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, Germany, during the spring of 2016. Last summer the quartet was selected to take part in the Chamber Music Residency at the Banff Centre in Canada, and in January 2017 they were invited to the Robert Mann String Quartet Seminar at the Manhattan School of Music. This year the Vera Quartet was one of five artists selected by NPR's Performance Today to spend a week as the show's Young Artist in Residence. In March they will be representing Indiana University on a tour of Korea and they will perform Tan Dun’s Concerto for String Quartet and Pipa with famed pipa player Wu Man as part of the China Remixed Festival.
The Vera Quartet is also involved in outreach projects in the Bloomington area and beyond; they have been recorded for the new album Bloomingsongs produced by the Jacobs School of Music’s Musical Beginnings, and have partnered with a local youth symphony to both teach and perform. As part of their upcoming Performance Today residency, the quartet will also perform outreach concerts in a few public schools in Minnesota.
In addition to working with the Pacifica Quartet, the Vera Quartet has been coached by Atar Arad, Mauricio Fuks, Alex Kerr, Peter Stumpf, Mark Steinberg, Richard Lester, Hsin-Yun Huang, Barry Shiffman, Joshua Bell, Martin Beaver, Ani Kavafian, Peter Winograd, Wolfram Koessel, David Geber, Nicholas Mann, Kazuhide Isomura and Samuel Rhodes.
The Village of Bedford Walk & Odyssey Chamber Music Series present Concert Two: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Thursday, December 15, 2016 at 5:00pm
Holiday Piano Duets
Mykola Leontovich, arr. H. Sorenson: Carol of the Bells
Latin Hymn, set by J. Raney: O Come, O Come Emmanel
Peter I. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, complete
John J. Hopkins, Jr., arr. H. Sorenson: We Three Kings
Pietro A. Yon (1886-1943), arr. Cindy Berry: Gesù bambino
Trad. French Carol, set by J. Raney: Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella
Leroy Anderson, arr. M. Edwards: Sleigh Ride
Greg Anderson: A New Account of the Blue Danube Waltzes by Johann Staruss: Concert Fantasy for piano four hands
The Village of Bedford Walk & Odyssey Chamber Music Series present Concert One: Odyssey Music @ The Village of Bedford Walk
Friday, November 18, 2016 at 5:00pm
Odyssey Performance Fellows